Lori Soderberg has been at the center of Spartan basketball for the last 43 years as an executive secretary, and it was announced at the beginning of this month that she would be retiring after an excellent career.
Here is what Izzo had to say about his long-time co-worker:
“She kind of just keeps on trucking and doesn’t let anybody or anything get to her,” Izzo said. “I can maybe think of three or four times when she was mad, which is incredible — I mean, working for Jud and me, you should be mad every day. But she never let her emotions go. That’s why she was a good balancing act for me. I’m off the deep end a lot, and she’s never off the deep end. I’m gonna miss her.”
Lori started working for the team under the Jud Heathcoate regime and has been a stalwart of Izzo’s administration for its entirety. Because of this long tenure, she is the only person in the organization to have been with the team for both the 1979 and 2000 championships.
