ANN ARBOR – Former Michigan softball coach Carol Hutchins, who retired after 38 seasons in 2022 as the winningest coach in softball history, has long been on the forefront of championing women’s college athletes.
That began when she was a starting shortstop for Michigan State’s 1976 AIAW National Championship softball team when, 50 years ago, it was about female athletes being awarded scholarships like their male counterparts after the creation of Title IX a few years earlier…