Waffle House napkins were where the first drafts of TOPCARE were laid out.
Mike Gaddie, director for Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, and sports psychologist Dr. Joey Case met there on Russellville Road every week in 2019 laying out the program plans and website design.
For 11 months the pair have adjusted to working at WKU amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We want to be comforting,” Gaddie said. “We want to provide health care, we want to provide great health care. But some of this is so unknown, and it was changing so fast, that it really, really made it hard for our staff to be able to be who we want to be.