Abigail O’Connor has accumulated on her cell phone during these last two-plus months of the COVID-19 pandemic about 10,000 photos featuring homemade plates of food.
She’s not, however, compiling a cookbook.
As Michigan football’s performance dietitian, O’Connor had set the foundation during winter conditioning, teaching the players how to achieve what she calls “the perfect performance plate,” what it should look like, what it should consist of, and why it is important nutritionally.
But when the University of Michigan suspended everything on campus in mid-March, just as football was about to begin spring practice, O’Connor had to find a creative way to keeps the players, now on their own or back at home with their families, engaged in terms of eating properly.