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Clint Wattenberg grew up wrestling and running cross-country in Chico, CA. Clint moved east to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where he studied Nutritional Sciences and competed on the mats, and twice earned NCAA All-American status. Upon graduating from Cornell, Clint was a member of the US Freestyle Wrestling National Team. Clint studied Exercise Physiology (MS) at Ithaca College while still competing internationally, and upon retiring from competition in 2008 completed his dietetic internship to become a Registered Dietitian.
Since 2011 Clint has worked as a Eating Disorder Specialty Nutritionist with the multidisciplinary Cornell Healthy Eating Program (CHEP) working with a full-spectrum of eating disorder patients as well as Cornell Student Athletes struggling to adequately fuel their training and recovery. In 2013 Clint expanded his CHEP duties to also officially join the Cornell Athletics support team as the Coordinator of Sports Nutrition. In this role, Clint works with teams, individuals and staff to empower purposeful fueling to support athletic, academic and social success at Cornell and beyond. In the summer of 2014 Clint helped develop the “Nutrition Performance Team” a first-of-its-kind multidisciplinary performance and wellness nutrition team designed to tackle the complex barriers to athletes fueling with purpose, with an emphasis on the diet and body focus that particularly afflicts female athletes.
Clint works extensively with weight management sports and in January 2014 published Performance Nutrition for Wrestlers, an eBook designed to help athletes, coaches and parents safely, effectively and proactively navigate the many pitfalls of the managing weight and diet in the sport. Clint works very closely with perennial top 5 (NCAA Division 1) Cornell Wrestling and back-to-back undefeated national champion Cornell Lightweight Rowing on performance and weight management nutrition.
When not working, you will find Clint enjoying time with his family including his wife Sarah Herskee Wattenberg (an Assistant Athletic Director for Student Support Services at Cornell) and their two young children.
