Jake Blattner is in his sixth season as performance nutrition coordinator for the Husker program and works extensively with the Nebraska men’s basketball, women’s basketball and track and field programs.
Prior to joining the Nebraska staff, he served as a sports dietitian at Florida State University for three years. At the school, he provided personalized medical and performance nutritional therapy and managed individual athlete cases. Blattner also developed individual nutritional performance plans, which educated athletes and optimized performance based on specific goals. He oversaw daily operations in FSU’s Sports Nutrition unit and designed a recovery card system allowing athletes to interact directly with sports nutritionists.
Previously, Blattner served internships at BiPro-Agropur Ingredients and Princeton University and worked with the La Crosse Loggers in the Summer Collegiate Baseball League. Blattner earned his bachelor’s degree in community and medical dietetics from Viterbo (Wis.) University in 2015 and his master’s degree in exercise physiology in 2018.
He and his fiancee, Natalie Delamater, are engaged to be married in the summer of 2024.