Jekaterina Neteca earned a BS from the Latvian Academy of Sports Pedagogy (12.06.1998), an MS from the University of Latvia (28.06.2020), and a doctorate in the higher education programme “Sport science” from the Latvian Academy of Sports Pedagogy (26.06.2024).She worked from 10.11.22. at the Riga Stradiņš University's Department of Sport and Nutrition as a lecturer on the course "Nutrition and the musculoskeletal system" (SUUK_238), and between 01.09.23 and 26.06.2023 as a lecturer on the course "Nutrition in Sport/Athletes" at the Latvian Academy of Sport Pedagogy (LASE). She has published the following: “Review of research on beetroot juice use protocol to increase athletic performance” in the 15th Baltic Sport Science Conference “Challenges and solutions in sport science” (28.04.2022) and “The effect of fractionated red beetroot juice on performance and overall health of high-performance athletes", Vol. 2 (2023), DOI:https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2023, Vol. 2. (7144), at the 17th International scientific conference (SIE2023-5350), and presented at the Fourth International Electronic Conference on Nutrients—Plant-Based Nutrition Focusing on Innovation, Health, and Sustainable Food Systems (16–18 October 2024), with the poster "sciforum-097742".