TIFFANY BYRD
SPORTS NUTRITION - FOURTH SEASON Tiffany Byrd enters her fourth season as OU’s Director of Sports Nutrition in 2016-17. Byrd educates student-athletes on the importance of good nutrition and dietary habits in relation to their daily lives and athletic performance. She also works in conjunction with the staff at Oklahoma’s new state-of-the-art Sam Bradford Training Table, located in Headington Hall. Byrd arrived at Oklahoma after stints at Oregon, Alabama and Murray State. She was previously the Director of Sports Nutrition at Baylor before accepting the same title at Oklahoma. Byrd received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in nutrition, fitness and health promotion and her master’s in human nutrition from the University of Alabama. She was a member of the NCAA Championship gymnastics team at Alabama as well as the Nebraska gymnastics team.
DREW GASCHLER
ATHLETICS MARKETING - SECOND SEASON Drew Gaschler enters his second season at Oklahoma in 2017. In addition to coordinating marketing efforts such as game production, promotions and fan outreach for women’s gymnastics, Gaschler is also the primary contact for men’s gymnastics and men’s basketball. Gaschler spent three years at the University of Arizona prior to his arrival at Oklahoma, during which he had oversight of women’s basketball, baseball and soccer. He also assisted with game production for Arizona’s football games. Gaschler earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from Kansas State University in 2009 while interning for K-State Sports Properties. Additionally, Gaschler holds a master’s degree in sports management from Wichita State University in 2011 while serving as a marketing associate in the athletics department.
DAVID HOLDEN, M.D.
TEAM ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON - 16TH SEASON Dr. David Holden, a board certified orthopedic surgeon from the McBride Orthopedic Hospital in Oklahoma City, returns for his 16th year with the Oklahoma women’s gymnastics program. A graduate of Duke University and the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Holden serves as a clinical instructor at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and is a member of various professional organizations including the AMA, OSMA, OCMA, American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and is a fellow in the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery. Holden served as the U.S. athletes’ 2000 Swim Team Physician for the Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia, and as a team physician for the U.S. Olympics in 1994, 1995 and 2008. 11