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19 Alex Savva ensures players are able to perform optimally by implementing nutrition and supplementation programs in line with their training and weight goals. This includes nutritional consultations; dietary planning; measuring body fat and weight periodically; hydration testing; blood testing to assess nutritional deficiencies; analyzing GPS data; and providing feedback to coaches and medical staff. Savva was brought to the Galaxy as the Manager of Sports Science under Herbalife's guidance. Savva previously worked at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club working within the English Premier League side's sports nutrition program. Savva studied Sports and Exercise Science at Loughborough University before obtaining a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology at the same institution. A native of Rochester, Mich., Kurt Andrews is in his fourth season as the Galaxy's Assistant Athletic Trainer. An athletic training intern for the Galaxy in 2010, Andrews was hired permanently by the club in January 2012. His primary role is to assist the club's head athletic trainer with all of the club's first team training and health related matters. After graduating from Stony Creek High School in 2003, Andrews attended Oakland University in Michigan, where he majored in Exercise Science and worked with the men's soccer and women's volleyball teams before graduating in 2008. He then went on to the University of Arkansas, where he earned his Master's Degree in Athletic Training. During his time in Fayetteville, Andrews worked with the Razorbacks football, women's soccer, women's basketball, men's and women's track and field teams as an athletic training student. That opportunity allowed him to work with some of the nation's top track stars and a number of current and future NFL stars. Andrews received his certification in both Functional Movement Screening and Selective Functional Movement Assessment in 2011 while at Arkansas. He uses these to assist and help implement rehabilitative exercises to better develop the players in there movement process to avoid possible injuries that can accrue during the season. He went on two receive his Functional Movement Screening Level 2 certification, enhancing his perspective on improving fundamental movement patterns. Andrews is also a certified Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES), and Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. ALEX SAVVA - MANAGER OF SPORTS SCIENCE KURT ANDREWS - ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER