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Longford All-Ireland medal winner Clare Farrell joins Arne Slot's Liverpool FC as lead performance nutritionist
Longford All-Ireland intermediate club championship medal winner Clare Farrell has joined Arne Slot's Liverpool FC as lead performance nutritionist.
Prior to her appointment with 2019-2020 Premier League champions Liverpool, the accomplished Longford Slashers and Longford inter-county player, was lead performance nutritionist with the Munster Rugby men's team and was part of a successful 2023 season, which yielded a URC Final win in South Africa.
Liverpool FC announced Clare's appointment on the club website.
"Clare Farrell joined Liverpool FC as lead performance nutritionist in the summer of 2024, working with the men's senior team at the AXA Training Centre.
"Her role oversees nutrition strategies at the club to support the players' health, performance and recovery around training and matches.
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"Additionally, Clare will work with members of the squad on a one-on-one basis to individualise their training and game-day fuelling, recovery and supplement routines according to their specific positional demands and/or goals.
"Part of this sees the nutrition team work closely with the club chefs to ensure the daily menu offerings are in alignment with the team's performance nutrition requirements.
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"Prior to joining Liverpool, Clare earned a Bachelor of Science degree at University College Dublin, before going on to obtain a master's degree in sport and exercise nutrition at Loughborough University.
"She has a wide background of work in professional sport, including triathlon, West Ham United Women, and intercounty Gaelic football and hurling teams."
It was the day after Longford beat Antrim in the TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship final in 2016 that Farrell headed for the USA’s west coast.
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But with so many sporting ties along with the requests from sportspeople looking for help and advice, Farrell decided she would go down the sports nutrition route.
In 2019 Farrell went to Loughborough University in Leicestershire where she studied a Masters in Sports and Exercise Nutrition.
She worked with British triathletes in Loughborough, which is one of the bases for the English Institute of Sport, and that gave her a grounding for working one-on-one with top level athletes.
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When Covid-19 struck she came home to Ireland and started working remotely with West Ham United Women’s FC in September 2020. That was a gateway to her roles as a Performance Nutritionist with Longford Ladies, Longford U-20s and Munster Rugby.
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