Utah SWA Nona Richardson Wins National Honor

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8/9/2017 3:30 PM | General

Named Administrator of the Year by Women Leaders in College Sports

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nona Richardson, a senior associate athletics director and the senior woman administrator at Utah, has been named the NCAA FBS 2017 Administrator of the Year by Women Leaders in College Sports (formerly the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators). She will be honored on Oct. 10 at the 2017 Women Leaders National Convention in Dallas.

Richardson, whose career as a college coach and administrator has spanned more than 30 years, has been at Utah since January 2015. She oversees all student-athlete support services at Utah, including academics, sports medicine, nutrition, the wellness team and the life skills program. She also supervises several sports and serves as Utah's gender equity and diversity coordinator and a representative on Pac-12 Conference Counsel.

A former board member of Women Leaders in College Sports, Richardson was a 2000 recipient of the Dr. Nell Jackson Administrator of the Year Award.