MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For a month, Texas transplant Taylor Lile lived out of a local hotel while awaiting her furnishings to arrive. More accurately, she slept at the hotel, while she lived at the Milan Puskar Center inside the stadium’s south end.
Charged with running West Virginia’s newly renovated dining hall, Lile oversees every spoonful of the football team’s nutrition. A fixture at practices, lifting sessions and coaches meetings, she is the first football-only dietician in the Big 12 (and the fifth in the FBS). Her imprint is stamped on four team meals daily during preseason camp, a farm-to-fork job that begins with menu planning and ends with actually grading the food players stack on their plates.