Kragthorpe: Utes administrator enjoys helping athletes, 'making sure they're cared for'

In some ways, Nona Richardson always will be the 5-foot-6 ½, walk-on middle blocker who arrived on the Michigan State campus without knowing anyone and became a scholarship athlete and team leader.“I guess you have to be gritty, gutty, resilient and a little stubborn,” she said.The traits that made her an overachieving volleyball player in the early years of Title IX, when other Spartans women’s athletes were suing the school for scholarship equity, have carried over to