Oklahoma has been quietly reshaping the people side of its athletic department this offseason, and the latest addition might be one of the most important ones you don’t see on a Saturday.
Abigail O’Connor bid farewell to Michigan on social media recently, and sources share she’s leaving Ann Arbor after eight years to join the University of Oklahoma as Associate AD, Performance Nutrition.
In her new role she will oversee performance nutrition across all sports, with a stated emphasis on continuity of care for student-athletes. For anyone who has spent time inside a performance staff, that phrase matters. Nutrition is one of the areas where turnover quietly costs programs, and O’Connor’s charge in Norman is to build something that holds up across sports and across staffs…