Kelsee Gomes enters her second season with the Gators after being hired as the team's director of sports nutrition - football prior to the 2022 season.
Prior to Florida, Gomes spent seven seasons at North Carolina where she oversaw the nutrition department as well as baseball, men's basketball, field hockey, football, gymnastics, women's lacrosse and volleyball . Gomes was a part of five national championships - lacrosse (2015), basketball (2017) and field hockey (2018-20).
Gomes returns to Florida as she was a coordinator of sports nutrition for the Gators from 2012-15. Prior to that, Gomes was a nutritionist consultant at UCF from 2011-12 and worked at the traumatic brain injury and rehab unit at Orlando Regional Medical Center from 2009-11.
A native of Charlotte, N.C., she swam collegiately at University of North Carolina at Wilmington from 2002-06.
Gomes is credentialed as a Registered Dietitian (RD), a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), a certified LEAP Therapist (CLT) specializing in food sensitivities and is also certified in adult weight management by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
In 2023, Gomes was elected to serve on the board of directors of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association, which represents the vast majority of advanced practice registered dietitians in the United States who work full-time with athletes in colleges, professional sports, Olympic training centers, the U.S. Military and in law enforcement.
An active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), Gomes received the 2014 Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year award from the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND). She is also active in the Collegiate & Professional Sports Dietitians Association (CPSDA).
Her and her husband, Michael Dlugos, have two daughters, Charlotte and Amelia.
