Samantha Mellert was named Director of Performance Nutrition at App State in May 2019.
  
Mellert came to the High Country after serving as a Gatorade Sports Nutrition Immersion Program Fellow at Texas A&M. While with the Aggies, she managed the nutrition operations of the nationally ranked women's basketball team and both tennis programs. In addition, she developed and presented nutrition education materials on topics such as game day fueling, hydration and on the road nutrition.
  
Mellert also worked as a THOR3 Performance Program Dietetic Intern at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School and served as a fueling station volunteer and educator at Florida State.
 
She graduated from Kentucky with a degree in dietetics and earned her master's in exercise physiology with a concentration in sports nutrition from Florida State.