East Lansing — Robyn Fralick grew up in Okemos, in the shadows of Breslin Center, occasionally playing in one of those little-tykes games at halftime. She loved the Melting Moments ice-cream sandwiches.
Now, she's a Spartan.
Fralick was introduced as the sixth head women's basketball coach in Michigan State history during a raucous press conference-slash-pep rally on Tuesday, pledging to build on the program's success and get the Spartans into the mix in the national landscape, at a time when the women's game has never been more popular.
"Women's basketball is as good as it has ever been," Fralick said, two days after the women's national-championship game drew a sellout crowd in Dallas, and record TV ratings.