Gatorade Fuel Station
The Gatorade Fuel Station is a performance nutrition station for Virginia Tech’s Football student athletes only. The Fuel Station offers a variety of whole food options, ready to drink protein shakes, and convenience performance snacks for athletes to access each day. The primary goal of the Fuel Station is to provide a wide variety of options to fuel the athletes prior, during, and after training sessions with an emphasis on optimal recovery. This Fueling Station is managed by the Director of Sports Nutrition for Football and embodies the Virginia Tech Sports Nutrition Philosophy that Food is Fuel. The majority of the items offered within the Fueling Station are whole foods and nutrient dense; It provides Gatorade products, smoothies, recovery shakes, fresh fruit and vegetables, Greek yogurt, mixed nuts, beef jerky, tuna, boiled eggs, hummus, and many other high performance snacks for all Football athletes. Our Sports Nutrition staff strongly believes this is fundamental to improving athletic performance and overall health.