{
  "id": 12515489,
  "title": "USANA inks deal to become Utah Athletics’ nutrition partner, adds more than 500 Ute athletes to sponsor roster",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/usana-inks-deal-to-become-utah-athletics-nutrition-partner-adds-more",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-07T01:28:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/usana-inks-deal-become-utah-012836967.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The University of Utah and USANA have signed a new partnership agreement, with USANA becoming the official vitamin, mineral and nutrition provider for the university's Athletics program. The Salt Lake City-based company will expand its sponsorship roster to include over 500 student-athletes from Utah's 19 sports teams. Brent Neidig, USANA's chief commercial officer, emphasized the importance of supporting their home community and the natural fit between the two organizations. USANA will supply Utah Athletics with its premium nutritional supplements, enhancing the university's Performance Nutrition program. Meredith Price, Utah Assistant A.D. for Performance Nutrition, highlighted the significance of having access to high-quality, third-party sport-tested supplements from USANA, ensuring the health, safety and performance optimization of the student-athletes.",
  "summary": "As part of the partnership, Salt Lake City-based USANA will add more than 500 athletes across all of Utah’s 19 sports to its sponsorship roster.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}