Nix Biosensors and Baylor Athletics Announce Department-Wide Hydration Biosensor Partnership

April 15, 2026

The two-year agreement brings individualized, real-time sweat analysis and hydration guidance to all 19 Baylor D-I programs and approximately 450 student-athletes annually

BOSTON, MASS. (April 15, 2026) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Nix Biosensors, the leading provider of cutting-edge hydration monitoring technology, today announced a new two-year partnership with Baylor University Athletics, naming Nix the Official Hydration Biosensor Supplier of Baylor Athletics. The agreement includes the department-wide deployment of Nix’s team platform, Nix Pro, across all 19 Division I Baylor athletic programs, serving approximately 450 Baylor student-athletes annually.

For years, hydration protocols in collegiate sports have largely relied on generalized guidance applied uniformly across an entire roster, and across all sports. However, the data is clear: athletes participating in two different sports can lose fluids and electrolytes at very dramatically rates; and even two athletes who complete the same session in the same conditions can lose fluids and electrolytes at dramatically different rates. Without individualized data, coaches and staff are left to guess at needs, often after performance has dropped or symptoms appear.

With this partnership, Baylor is moving beyond one-size-fits-all hydration protocols and scaling a measurable, individualized approach across its entire athletic department. By integrating Nix Pro into daily training and performance operations, Baylor coaches, sports dieticians, and athletic medicine practitioners will have real-time visibility into fluid and electrolyte loss, enabling bespoke hydration and recovery strategies for all 450 athletes.

“At Baylor, we are committed to leading with cutting-edge performance innovation while leveraging new technology to provide elite care for our student-athletes regardless of sport or training conditions,” said Kenny Boyd, MS, LAT, ATC, Executive Senior Associate AD for Student-Athlete Services. “With Nix Pro, our coaches and health and wellness staff can see individualized sweat and electrolyte loss in real time and also use that personal data to make informed daily decisions, from training load to recovery and heat-risk management, across all 19 of our sport programs.”

At this scale, the partnership becomes a living lab, enabling cross-sport and cross-population analysis across Baylor’s full athletics ecosystem, including comparisons by sport, training demands, environment, and women’s and men’s programs. By deploying Nix Pro across the entire department, Baylor and Nix will not only support day-to-day decision-making, but also push the boundaries of what individualized hydration data can reveal about performance, recovery, and athlete safety at scale. The implementation is designed to give coaches and practitioners consistent visibility into each athlete’s sweat loss trends, inform daily adjustments, and build a longitudinal dataset that can surface new benchmarks, patterns, and insights over time.

“Baylor is raising the bar for how a modern athletics department supports performance and athlete safety,” said Meridith Cass, CEO of Nix Biosensors. “Whether it is pre-season training camp in August or repeated high-intensity efforts indoors, sweat and electrolyte loss are a constant. For decades, programs did the best they could with lab-only testing and broad recommendations because there was no practical, real-time way to quantify individual needs. Baylor’s adoption of Nix Pro across all 19 programs brings hydration into the measurable, actionable layer of daily decision-making, making it part of the foundation for athlete care and competitive excellence.”

Over the course of the partnership, Baylor expects to see impact in key areas tied directly to readiness and resilience, including stronger on-field performance and more consistent output driven by individualized hydration strategies, as well as reduced cramping and heat-related incidents and improved recovery between sessions. Health and Wellness staff can also connect hydration patterns to workload and injury trends over time, while athletes gain a clearer, data-driven understanding of their own needs.

For more information about Nix, visit Nix Biosensors at nixbiosensors.com.

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About Nix Biosensors:

Nix is changing the way humans manage health by empowering consumers to access, understand, and act on their personal biology in real time. Nix’s first consumer product is a sweat patch that provides athletes, soldiers, and laborers with hydration data in real-time, helping them optimize safety and performance. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Nix is founded by CEO Meridith Cass, a graduate of Harvard Business School, former VC, and 9-time marathoner. Advisors include Tom Fowler, Former President of Polar; Dr. Bob Murray, Founder and former Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute; Shalane Flanagan, 4x Olympian, Silver Medalist, and 2017 NYC Marathon Champion; and Tatyana McFadden, the 7x Paralympian and 22x Medalist, with 24 World Major medals. Learn more at nixbiosensors.com.

About Baylor Athletics

Baylor Athletics sponsors 19 NCAA Division I programs and is committed to providing a world-class student-athlete experience through excellence in competition, academics, leadership, and service. Based in Waco, Texas, Baylor supports student-athletes with comprehensive resources in holistic athlete development to include, athletic medicine, performance nutrition, athletics performance, applied performance and mental health. Baylor competes in the Big 12 Conference and strives to set the standard for competitive success and student-athlete well-being. For more information, visit https://baylorbears.com/.