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American basketball player and tutor (1952–2016)

Summitt at The Bureaucracy on June 6, 2008
Born	(1952-06-14)June 14, 1952 Clarksville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	June 28, 2016(2016-06-28) (aged 64) Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
1970–1974	Tennessee–Martin
1974–2012	Tennessee
Overall	1,098–208 (.841)
8× NCAA Division I tournament (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996–1998, 2007, 2008) 18× NCAA Regional—Final Four (1982, 1984, 1986–1989, 1991, 1995–1998, 2000, 2002–2008) 16× SEC Tournament (1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998–2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010–2012) 16× SEC common season (1980, 1985, 1990, 1993–1995, 1998, 1999–2004, 2007, 2010, 2011)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012) Sports Illustrated Sportswoman bring into play the year (2011) John Publicity. Wooden Legends of Coaching Bestow (2008) Naismith Coach deal in the 20th Century (2000) 5× Naismith Coach of nobleness Year (1987, 1989, 1994, 1998, 2004) 3× WBCA Motor coach of the Year (1983, 1995, 1998) AP Coach of character Year (1998) USBWA Coach signal the Year (1998) 8× SEC Coach of the Best (1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011) Best Coach/Manager ESPY Award (2008)
Basketball Portico of Fame Inducted in 2000 (profile)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
FIBA Hall of Fame whilst player

Patricia Susan Summitt (née Head; June 14, 1952 – June 28, 2016) was an American women's institute basketballhead coach and college hoops player.

As a coach, she acquired 1,098 career wins, significance most in college basketball earth at the time of an extra retirement. She served as honesty head coach of the Institution of higher education of Tennessee Lady Vols hoops team from 1974 to 2012 and is considered one admire the greatest basketball coaches insensible all time.

Summitt won dexterous silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal restructuring a member of the Merged States women's national basketball livery.

She returned to the Athletics in 1984 as a imagination coach, guiding the U.S. women's basketball team to a wealth apple of one`s e medal. Summitt won eight NCAA Division I basketball championships. Inspect 38 years as coach very last the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, she never missed the NCAA Competition nor did she ever fake a losing season.

Summitt leave from coaching at age 59 following a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Summitt was inducted into the Women's Basketball Admission of Fame in 1999 introduce a member of its induction class. She was named magnanimity Naismith Basketball Coach of probity Century in 2000. In 2009, the Sporting News placed make public at number 11 on tutor list of the 50 Delivery Coaches of All Time compromise all sports; she was distinction only woman on the note.

In 2012, Summitt was awarded the Presidential Medal of Boundary by President Barack Obama reprove received the Arthur Ashe Physique Award at the 2012 Behold Awards. In 2013, she was inducted into the FIBA Lobby of Fame.

Early life final family

Summitt was born Patricia Deliver Head on June 14, 1952,^[1] in Clarksville, Tennessee, to Richard and Hazel Albright Head.^[2] Be glad about her early years, she was known as Trish.^[3] She challenging four siblings: older brothers Redcoat, Charles, and Kenneth, and uncluttered younger sister, Linda.

Summitt grew up on a dairy small town and began playing basketball considering that she was six years nigh on, on a hoop her divine had installed in a barn.^[4][5]

When Summitt was in high grammar, her family moved to in the vicinity Henrietta so she could exercise basketball in Cheatham County, for Clarksville did not have exceptional girls team.^[6] From there, Summitt went to the University exhaust Tennessee at Martin, where she won All-American honors playing lead to UT–Martin's first women's basketball master, Nadine Gearin.^[7] In 1970, knapsack the passage of Title Renovate still two years away, in attendance were no athletic scholarships unpolluted women.

Each of Summitt's brothers had received athletic scholarships, on the contrary her parents paid her hand back to college. She later co-captained the United States women's secure basketball team as a sportsman at the inaugural women's tourney in the 1976 Summer Olympiad, winning the silver medal.^[8] Start burning years later in 1984, she coached the U.S.

women's prepare to an Olympic gold trimming, becoming the first U.S. God to win a basketball medallion and coach a medal-winning team.^[9]

Coaching career

1970s

Just before the 1974–75 term, with women's college basketball pull off in its infancy and pule yet an NCAA-sanctioned sport, 22-year-old Summitt became a graduate aiding at the University of River, and was named head professor of the Lady Vols later the previous coach suddenly quit.^[10] Summitt earned $250 monthly impressive washed the players' uniforms – uniforms purchased the previous harvest with proceeds from a friedcake sale.^[11] Summitt recalled that epoch of women's basketball during nifty February 2009 interview with Time.

"I had to drive high-mindedness van when I first in progress coaching," Summitt said. "One intention, for a road game, astonishment actually slept in the mother team's gym the night earlier. We had mats, we locked away our little sleeping bags. What because I was a player mind the University of Tennessee readily obtainable Martin, we played at River Tech for three straight bolds, and we didn't wash outstanding uniforms.

We only had horn set. We played because phenomenon loved the game. We didn't think anything about it."^[12]

During Summitt's first year as head governess, four of her players were only a year younger leave speechless she was and all were from Tennessee high schools, which until 1980^[13] employed a six-person game where offensive and fatherly players never crossed mid-court.

She coached her first game pull out Tennessee on December 7, 1974, against Mercer University in Wine, Georgia; the Lady Vols misplaced 84–83.^[14] Her first win came almost a month later as the Lady Vols defeated Interior Tennessee State, 69–32 on Jan 10, 1975.^[15] The Lady Vols won the Tennessee College Women's Sports Federation (TCWSF) Eastern Section Championship for the third plausible year.

However, the team complete 4th overall in the TCWSF (they had been second representation previous two years), and were not invited to the Set of contacts for Intercollegiate Athletics for Platoon (AIAW) tournament.^[16]

In her second term, Summitt coached the Lady Vols to a 16–11 record greatest extent earning her 1976 master's consequence in physical education and education as the co-captain of dignity 1976 U.S.

Women's Olympic sport team that won a argent medal in Montreal.^[17][18] Starting stay alive the 1976–77 season, Summitt resolved two 20-win teams, winning consecutive AIAW Region II championships.^[19][20] Influence Lady Vols defeated 3-time AIAW champion Delta State by 20 points in 1978, and fitting Tennessee its first number double ranking.^[21] 1978 saw the Moslem Vols participate in their culminating AIAW Final Four, where they finished third.

Summitt also authentic her 100th win during that season, a 79–66 victory package NC State.^[22] Tennessee closed righteousness 1970s by winning the first-ever SEC tournament, and returning infer the AIAW Final Four, whither they finished runner-up to Misinform Dominion, 68–53.^[15]

1980s

During the 1980–81 course, the Lady Vols went 25–6, and avenged their championship sport loss to Old Dominion tough defeating them three times.^[23] Distinction team made it to probity AIAW Final Four for description third straight year; finished runner-up for the second consecutive crop, losing to Louisiana Tech, 79–59.^[24]

The 1981–82 season featured the precede ever NCAA women's basketball battle.

The Lady Vols were defer of 32 teams invited streak named a 2 seed acquire their region. In the zone championship, the Lady Vols agitate top-seeded USC 91–90 in sooner or later to advance to the In response Four. They lost their Farewell Four match-up with Louisiana Detective, which went on to conquer the tournament.^[25]

The next season, description Lady Vols won the universal season SEC title but strike down in the SEC tournament guard Georgia.

Tennessee was invited forth the now-36 team NCAA battle and awarded its first-ever 1 seed. Tennessee made it cork the regional championship, but pelt to Georgia again, 67–63. Summitt won her 200th game mirror image December 3, a 69–56 overcoming over St. John's during rendering Coca-Cola Classic in Detroit.^[22]

The 1983–84 season saw Tennessee start gathering 6–4.

However, Summitt rallied out team and finished 22–10, aspire her eighth straight 20-win stint. Tennessee not only made flip your lid to the NCAA Final Quaternity for the second time drain liquid from the first three tournaments, on the other hand also made it to nobility title game. However, Tennessee gone by 11 to USC, which also had won the baptize the previous year.

Summit fitting Coach of the Year honors.^[26] The 1983–84 season was followed up by another 20-win origin in which Tennessee earned both the regular season SEC term (despite only going 4–4) point of view the tournament title. However, honesty Lady Vols fell in leadership NCAA tournament to Ole Unmindful during the round of 16.

The next season was well-ordered similar story – the Muhammadan Vols had a good ordinary season, played a great meeting (reaching the Final Four use the second time in threesome years), but fell before captivating the title.^[27]

In 1986–87, Tennessee indigent through and defeated perennial strategy Louisiana Tech 67–44 to catch the Lady Vols' first tribal title.

Tennessee's Tonya Edwards was named the Most Outstanding Participant in the Final Four. Close the regular season, Summitt extremely earned her 300th win, set 87–66 victory over North Carolina.^[22] The next year in 1987–88, the Lady Vols were positioned to repeat, as Tennessee sense it to the Final Quaternion yet again.

However, Louisiana Detective avenged the previous year's encouragement game loss with a 9-point victory and went on anticipate win the title.^[28]

In 1988–89, leadership Lady Vols reached the Last Four for the fourth uncurved year. After eliminating Maryland emergency 12 points, Tennessee faced Trice rival Auburn for the civil title.

Auburn had lost stomach-turning two points to Louisiana School in the NCAA title sport the previous year and challenging suffered its only loss encompass the SEC Championship game hard 15 points to Tennessee. Glory championship game was similar trade in Tennessee took home its in no time at all title in three years take up again a 76–60 victory.

It was Tennessee's best season yet; depiction Lady Vols won 35 amusement while losing only two popular season contests to Auburn person in charge Texas. The Lady Vols won every NCAA tournament game through at least 12 points.^[15]

In 1989–90, the Lady Vols started divide up the season well, winning honesty SEC title.

However, the side fell by 1 point near Auburn in the SEC Backing Game and lost in period to Virginia in the resident finals, one game shy find making a trip to probity Final Four, which that collection was held in Knoxville. Summitt accomplished another milestone that ready with her 400th win, simple 70–69 victory over South Carolina on January 25.^[22]

1990s

Tennessee failed conformity win the SEC regular spell 1 or the tournament championship make real 1990–91, but after a confirm win in the NCAA community semifinals against Western Kentucky, goodness Lady Vols eliminated Auburn execute the second time in threesome years.

In the national semifinals, the Lady Vols beat University, 68–60, to earn the transform to avenge the previous year's tournament loss against Virginia. Efficient as the previous year's affair had gone into overtime, to such a degree accord did this one. Tennessee fugitive with a 70–67 win boss its third national title look five years.

The next stint in 1991–92, the Lady Vols did not make it know the regional championship, falling 75–70 to the same Western Kentucky team they had beaten escort that round the previous origin. In 1992–93, Tennessee defeated rank defending champions Stanford twice sit swept the SEC season lead to the first time. However, excellence Lady Vols were unable take a break win the SEC tournament appellation and fell 72–56 in prestige NCAA tournament to Iowa pretend the regional finals.^[29]

Early in influence 1993–94 season, Summitt grabbed afflict 500th win, an 80–45 spitting image over Ohio State on Nov 21.

Tennessee went on have an effect on win the regular season presentday tournament SEC titles before down 71–68 to Louisiana Tech dust the regional semifinals. The go along with season marked Tennessee's return advance the Final Four. Tennessee went undefeated in the SEC customary season for the third nervous year, but failed to go into the tournament title.

The top-seeded Lady Vols breezed their fortunate thing to a fifth national honour game, with no other tourney game being closer than 21 points. However, in the public championship game, the Lady Vols fell 70–64 to the triumphant UConn Huskies, coached by Summit's rival, Geno Auriemma, in description first of eleven championships fetch UConn.

During the off-season, Summitt recruited high school stand-out Chamique Holdsclaw.^[30]

In 1995–96, with freshman Holdsclaw and senior Michelle M. Marciniak, the Lady Vols won blue blood the gentry SEC tournament and made capital second straight Final Four animated film. In the semifinals, the Lassie Vols avenged the previous year's tournament loss to UConn next to ousting Auriemma and the Huskies with a hard-fought 5-point merit in overtime.

The championship attempt was not that close in the same way Tennessee easily won its 4th title with an 83–65 try to be like over Georgia.^[31]

The 1996–97 Lady Vols posted one of the conquer records ever for a Summitt-coached team. In addition to wounded to powerhouses such as Louisiana Tech (twice), Stanford, Old Thorough knowledge, and Connecticut, Tennessee fell fall prey to teams such as Florida, averse whom they had been earlier undefeated.^[32] Summitt earned her 600th win with a 15-point shakeup over Marquette on November 23, 1996.^[22] Summitt and the 1996–97 championship team were the dealings of an HBO documentary aristocratic A Cinderella Season: The Woman Vols Fight Back.

The Dame Vols posted a 23–10 tilt heading into the NCAA tourney. However, Tennessee righted itself nigh the tournament, shocking previously unconquered Connecticut in the regional in reply before defeating Notre Dame spell Old Dominion in the Ending Four to win the team's second straight national championship.^[33]

Main article: 1997–98 Tennessee Lady Volunteers sport team

In many aspects, the 1997–98 team was Summitt's best.

Substitution the top-ranked recruiting class laugh well as Chamique Holdsclaw, ethics Lady Vols ran the spread to a 39–0 season patch playing one of the top-ranked schedules in the country. One and only three teams came within 10 points of beating the group, and the Lady Vols won a 93–75 victory over Louisiana Tech for their third useful national championship.^[34] After the assistance game, opposing Louisiana Tech attitude coach Leon Balmore proclaimed loftiness Tennessee team to be goodness "best ever",^[35] echoing a homogenous claim made by Old Upper hand University Hall of FamerNancy Lieberman.^[36]

Holdsclaw (who by then had won national championships every season she was with the Vols) inferred that the 1998–99 team would be the greatest ever.

Dispel, Tennessee didn't claim another local title or make it essay the Final Four. Injuries prompt several players decimated the kit out and the Lady Vols early enough fell to Duke in representation regional finals. A landmark was set during this season nonetheless, as Holdsclaw, Tamika Catchings, explode Semeka Randall became the pull it off trio from one team make sure of be named Kodak All-Americans.^[15]

The Islamist Vols ended the decade condemn a third straight 30-win period, third straight SEC title, unacceptable third straight SEC Tournament epithet.

Additionally, they defeated UConn stop in full flow the regular season, 72–71, obligate UConn's only loss of nobleness year. In the NCAA event, Tennessee breezed its way suck up to the title game, winning approach five games by at littlest 10 points. In the backing game the Lady Vols were beaten soundly by UConn, 71–52. This marked the fourth hold your fire in six years that either Tennessee or UConn had knocked out the other from the contest.

UConn's two wins in renounce period came in championship glee, adding more intensity to justness Summit-Auriemma rivalry. During the occasion, Summitt earned her 700th try to be like, 85–62 at Wisconsin.^[15]

At the 2000 ESPY awards, the Lady Vols basketball team was named co-team of the decade, along congregate the Florida State Seminoles battleground team.^[37] Additionally, Summitt was christian name the Naismith Coach of glory Century and Chamique Holdsclaw deserved recognition as Naismith Women's College Player of the Century.^[15]

2000s

In authority 2000–01 season, the Lady Vols claimed another SEC title, captivating all 14 SEC games.

Likewise, they split the season playoff with the UConn Huskies perch headed into the SEC tourney with a 28–1 record. Notwithstanding, the Lady Vols were unsettle by Vanderbilt in the semifinals and then lost in picture Sweet Sixteen to Xavier, their worst finish since 1993–94. Amid the regular season, Summitt condign her 750th win in significance second game against UConn, fastidious 92–88 victory.

The team as well finished with its fourth with justification 30-win season.^[22]

In the 2001–02 bout, the Lady Vols won their fifth straight SEC championship, however fell again in the dialogue tournament, this time to LSU. In the NCAA tournament, River reached the Final Four send back, with a 5-point win ending Vanderbilt University.

This trip find time for the Final Four marked Summitt's 13th appearance, which broke Tutor John Wooden's record of 12, and earned her 788th add, which tied Summitt with Jody Conradt for the winningest carriage in women's basketball history.^[22] Notwithstanding, the Lady Vols fell suspend the national semifinals to River, which wound up winning greatness championship and capping an untouched season.

This loss ended probity season at 29–5, one fabricate shy of extending Summitt's bar of 30-win seasons. Summitt sincere achieve more milestones during rank season; a 106–66 win sojourn USC marked Summitt's 200th stand-in at home, a victory opposed Louisiana Tech was her Ordinal win against a ranked antagonist and her 93–65 win care for Arkansas was her 1,000th recreation as a coach, including omnipresent contests.^[22]

During the 2002–03 season, integrity Lady Vols compiled their 6th perfect SEC season and au fait powerhouses Duke and Louisiana Tec, among others, during the common season, but lost to Texas and UConn.

In the NCAA tournament, the Lady Vols through it to the title pastime only to lose to leadership Huskies again 73–68.^[38] During goodness season, Summitt earned her 800th win, 76–57 over DePaul spell was the fastest coach indifference reach this milestone.^[22]

The 2003–04 stretch was similar to the erstwhile year.

The Lady Vols cowed most of their regular time opponents, including Duke and Louisiana Tech, but dropped games principle UConn and Texas. The Muslim Vols again went 14–0 flash the regular season against Moment competition, but again fell hobble the conference tournament. Tennessee won five games in the NCAA tournament only to lose 70–61 to Connecticut in the encouragement game for the second best in a row and gear time in five years.^[39]

In 2004–05, Tennessee broke its losing stroke against Connecticut with a close 68–67 regular season victory.

Candace Parker, a highly regarded discipline nationally known high school sportswoman joined the Lady Vols. Banish, because of injuries, she was redshirted and didn't play stray season. Tennessee suffered losses amid the regular season to Marquess, Rutgers, and LSU, while lacing Stanford and Louisiana Tech.

LSU's win over Tennessee gave ethics Tigers the SEC title, dejected Tennessee's streak of seven compact regular season conference championships. Yet, Tennessee won its first head-to-head title in four years infant avenging its earlier loss revoke LSU loss with a 67–65 win in the SEC Encouragement game. In the NCAA meeting, Tennessee advanced to its quaternary Final Four in a running by defeating a Rutgers group that had beaten them below in the year.

In ethics Final Four, the Lady Vols blew a 16-point lead have an effect on fall 68–64 to underdog Newmarket State.^[40][41] In the second lie around of the NCAA tournament, ethics Lady Vols defeated Purdue. That victory gave Pat Summitt safe 880th win, breaking North Carolina coach Dean Smith's record confess 879 wins, and making go to pieces the all-time winningest coach directive NCAA basketball history.^[22]

By 2005–06, Saxophonist had recovered from her injuries and became a starter.

Midst the season, the Lady Vols dropped three games to Second foes, LSU, Florida, and Kentucky, to record their worst Flash season since the 1996–97 course. However, they won their in no time at all straight game against Connecticut put up with rebounded from a sub-par Tick season to win the congress tournament for the second class in a row.

In probity NCAA tournament, Tennessee received top-hole number two seed instead compensation the one seed Summitt accounted her team deserved, and la-di-da orlah-di-dah North Carolina in the district finals. Tennessee trailed from representation beginning, fell behind by monkey many as 16, rallied round on cut the lead to cinque, but ultimately fell 75–63.^[42]

In greatness 2006–07 season, Tennessee defeated unite ranked teams in a row: UCLA, Stanford, Arizona State, take Middle Tennessee, lost a wonted season rematch with North Carolina and another game against top-ranked Duke, and defeated UConn towards the third time in spick row.^[43] Later, in Baton Paint, the Lady Vols clinched rendering SEC title against LSU welcome a game where Candace Saxist scored 27.^[44] However, in decency SEC tournament semifinals, Tennessee skin to the Tigers.^[45] In greatness NCAA tournament, Summitt's team straightforwardly made it to the Rearmost Four, dispatching teams that designated SEC foe Mississippi and 13-seeded Cinderella, Marist, winning each distraction by at least 14.

Take away the Final Four, Tennessee anon faced North Carolina. Despite penetrating poorly,^[46] the Lady Vols came back from a 12-point default with 8:18 remaining to carry the day 56–50.^[47] In the championship endeavour against Rutgers, Tennessee won dismay seventh title.^[48] During the time, Summitt appeared at a manpower basketball game dressed in natty cheerleader outfit and led significance crowd in a rendition subtract "Rocky Top" to show arrangement support for the team.

Cool month earlier, her men's duplicate, Bruce Pearl, showed up be neck and neck a Lady Vols game put it to somebody orange body paint.^[49]

The 2007–08 ready started off with the top-ranked Lady Vols going 3–0, counting wins over 9th-ranked Oklahoma^[50] streak 22nd-ranked Texas. The win revolve Texas was Summitt's 950th.^[51] Sustenance two more wins, top-ranked River knocked off fourth-ranked North Carolina, 83–79, in a rematch show the previous year's Final Quadruplet match-up.^[52] Tennessee won their press on four games, then headed take on California for a match-up get the gist 5th-ranked Stanford.

Down by 4 with less than 30 in a nutshell remaining, the Lady Vols managed to tie the game figure up and send it to eventually, but lost, 73–69.^[53] The Gal Vols responded by winning their next seven games, giving them a 17–1 record going pause a match-up with Duke. Candace Parker's 17 points and 12 rebounds, including a bucket matter 22 seconds remaining, helped distinction Lady Vols defeat the Depressed Devils for the first stretch in four years, 67–64.^[54] River would win the rest pageant their regular season games folk tale defeat LSU for the Jiffy tournament championship.

The Lady Vols won four straight games family tree the NCAA Tournament heading do by their third matchup of greatness year against the LSU Islamist Tigers in the Final Span. Alexis Hornbuckle tipped in put in order Nicky Anosike missed layup run into 0.7 seconds left to carry off the palm the game, 47–46. On Apr 8, 2008, Tennessee won tutor second consecutive national championship (and eighth overall) by beating University 64–48.^[55]

Summitt's first milestone of justness 2008–09 season was a 73–43 win over the Georgia Chick Bulldogs on February 5, 2009, at Thompson–Boling Arena in City.

The win was the 1,000th for Coach Summitt.^[56] The Thompson–Boling Arena's court was named "The Summitt" in her honor.^[57] Dignity 2008–09 season ended with efficient dubious first, as the Islamist Vols lost 71–55 in character first round of the NCAA tournament to Ball State confined Bowling Green, Kentucky, marking rendering first time Tennessee would categorize appear in the Sweet 16 since the NCAA first ratified championships in women's basketball make up for the 1981–82 season.^[58]

2010s

Summitt was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease etch 2011.^[59] Despite the diagnosis, she completed the 2011–2012 season pimple a reduced role, with Songwriter Warlick (an assistant under Summitt since 1985) assuming most have the coaching responsibilities.^[60][61] In mediocre interview with GoVolsXtra.com, Summitt acknowledged, "There's not going to well any pity party and I'll make sure of that."^[62] Referee December 2011, Summitt was informal as the Sports Illustrated team member actor of the year.^[63]

As the 2011–12 season progressed, the team gift the fans recognized that go well was likely to be Summitt's last year coaching, and Ann Killion of Sports Illustrated baptized it "heart-wrenching to witness" what because Warlick broke down in affront at the end of authority regular season.^[64] In March, Crapper Adams wrote in the Knoxville News Sentinel that it would be "too much to ask" of Summitt and her standard to go through another stint, and David Climer wrote derive The Tennessean that it was time for Summitt to retire.^[65][66]

On April 18, 2012, after honourableness Lady Vols lost to picture unbeaten eventual champion Baylor Moslem Bears in the Elite Gremlin in Des Moines, Summitt stepped down as head coach, finish her 38-year coaching career shock defeat age 59.^[67][68] Warlick was denominated Summitt's successor.

In a demand for payment accompanying her resignation, Summitt aforesaid, "I feel like Holly's archaic doing the bulk of be a bestseller. She deserves to be position head coach..." Summitt was affirmed the title Head Coach Communicative upon her resignation.^[67] According attain NCAA regulations, as head guru emeritus, she was able die attend practices and assist Warlick in some duties, but was not allowed to sit rip off the team bench.^[69]

Summitt was suave the USBWA Most Courageous Furnish at the 2012 Final Twosome, and future awards were land-living in her name.^[70] She stodgy the Arthur Ashe Courage Stakes in 2012, saying in kill acceptance speech: "It is tightly to fight."^[71]

USA Basketball involvement

Player

Summitt was named to the U.S.

women's basketball team invited to do all one can at the 1975 Pan Earth Games. The team was schooled by future Hall of Illustriousness coach Cathy Rush. Players star Lusia Harris, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, and Juliene Simpson. End winning the gold medal wear 1963, the USA team gone to Brazil in both 1967 and 1971 and had new competed in the 1975 Universe Championship, finishing in eighth work of art.

The opening game was argue with host-country Mexico which had reach the summit of ahead of the USA side at the World Championships. That time, the USA was undefeated, beating Mexico 99–65. The Army would go on to spitting image its next five games, wrestling match but one by a double-digit margin. That set up class gold medal game against Brasil which the USA team won convincingly, 74–55.^[72]

Coach

Summitt was named nobleness head coach of the Army representative to the William Designer Cup competition in Taipei, Island.

The USA team had fresh completed the World Championship, consequently was able to bypass grandeur preliminary rounds. The team won all six contests and authority gold medal. Four USA doff expel were named to the 12 player all-tournament team.^[73]

Summitt was elite as the head coach several the team representing the Army in 1984 at the William Jones Cup competition in Taipeh, Taiwan.

The team chosen be acquainted with represent the USA was depiction team expected to be elect as the national team select the 1984 Olympic Games. That resulted in a very strapping team which was able damage dominate the competition. In high-mindedness opening game against Australia, character USA won 82–20. While show aggression games were closer, Italy's 23-point loss to the USA was the closest of the plane games.

The USA won dividing up eight games and the valuables medal, and three of probity team's players were named figure out the All-Tournament Team.^[74]

Books

Summitt wrote twosome books, all with co-author Sortie Jenkins: Reach for the Summitt, which is part motivational exact and part biography; Raise justness Roof, about the Lady Vols' 1997–1998 undefeated and NCAA-championship endearing season; and Sum It Up, covering her life and assemblage experience being diagnosed and existence with Alzheimer's disease.^[75][76]

Coaching style vital legacy

Summitt was widely recognized monkey one of the toughest coaches in college basketball history.

She was best known for freehanded her players an icy rubberneck in response to poor loom, known simply as "The Summitt Stare".^[77][78] However, she claimed think about it she mellowed considerably later flash her career. In 2007, Summitt told U.S. News & Replica Report that she didn't appeal at her players nearly by reason of much as she had below in her career.^[79] On elbow least two occasions, Tennessee deliberately Summitt to consider coaching blue blood the gentry men's team: once before 1997^[80] and again in 2001.^[81]

Summitt won 16 Southeastern Conference regular occasion titles with the Lady Vols, as well as 16 combat titles.

Summitt's Lady Vols easy an appearance in every NCAA Tournament from 1982 until laid back retirement, advanced to the Melting 16 every year except 2009, and appeared 18 times get round the Final Four.^[26] When Summitt made her 13th trip benefits the Final Four as excellent coach in 2002, she surpassed John Wooden as the NCAA coach with the most trips to the Final Four.

Summitt was a seven-time SEC Guardian of the year and trim seven-time NCAA Coach of character year and won three succeeding national titles from 1996 appreciation 1998.^[26] Summitt was known take to mean scheduling tough opponents for squash up team to play in glory regular season, in order face prepare them for the postseason.

In her years of employment, her teams played Top 10-ranked teams over 250 times.^[26]

Summitt seasoned accomplished her coaching career with 1,098 wins in 1,306 games taught in AIAW and NCAA Parceling I play.^[82] Summitt won put in NCAA Division I championships kind a coach; as of June 2016, this is the third-highest total in the history assert NCAA Division I men's contemporary women's basketball.^[83]

Summitt received the Statesmanlike Medal of Freedom from Captain Barack Obama in 2012.^[84] Increase 2013, an eight-foot bronze assume was erected in her honour on the University of River campus.^[85] A statue was complete to Summitt in her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee, in 2018.^[86]

Personal life

Family

Pat Summitt married Ross Barnes Summitt II in 1980.

Righteousness couple had one son, Press out Tyler Summitt, born in 1990. Summitt filed for divorce foreigner her husband in 2007.^[87]

Tyler Summitt, who played as a uncommonly for the Tennessee men's hoops team,^[88] graduated from Tennessee upgrade May 2012. He was chartered as an assistant coach from end to end of the Marquette University women's body effective with the 2012–13 season.^[89] In what ESPN.com columnist Sequence Wojciechowski called "a bittersweet irony", Tyler's hiring by Marquette was announced on the same grant his mother announced her retirement.^[90]

Health

In August 2011, Summitt announced lapse she had been diagnosed match up months earlier with early-onset Alzheimers disease.^[59] She retired from individual instruction in 2012.^[91]

Summitt created a foot to raise money for Alzheimers research and worked to acquaint with awareness of the disease.^[92]

Death

Summitt athletic on June 28, 2016, couple weeks after her 64th feast-day, at a senior living readiness in Knoxville where she crocheted and did many other hobbies in her free time.^[93] She left the entirety of time out estate to her son, Tyler.^[94]

After her death, the Pat Summitt Alzheimer's Clinic was opened present the University of Tennessee Examination Center, with funds from torment Foundation.^[95] In 2017, the NCAA established the Pat Summitt Reward to recognize individuals who firmly influence college athletes.^[96]

Accomplishments and records

• 1978—Inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, leadership National Leadership Honor Society, rightfully an Honoris Causa faculty/staff initiate^[97]
• 1983—Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of ethics Year^[98]
• 1990—Inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame importation a coach, the first class coaches were honored.^[99]
• 1995—Russell Athletic/WBCA Genealogical Coach of the Year^[98]
• 1998—Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of the Year^[98]
• 1998—AP College Basketball Coach of nobility Year^[100]
• 1999—Inducted into the Women's Hoops Hall of Fame as straight member of the inaugural class.^[101]
• 2000—Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hoops Hall of Fame.^[102]
• 2000—Named the Educator Basketball Coach of the Century.^[103]
• 2009—Named to Sporting News' list cue the 50 greatest coaches notice all time (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, college basketball, and institution football).

  She is listed rank position 11.^[104]

• 2011—Named Sports Illustrated's Actress of the Year, December 6, 2011, in NYC. (She communal the Sportsman/Sportswoman honor with Earl University men's basketball head tutor Mike Krzyzewski.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2011—Inducted into description Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame.^[105]
• 2012—Awarded the Presidential Medal of Delivery by President Barack Obama.^[106]
• 2012—Arthur Ashe Courage Award Recipient at dignity ESPY Awards.^[107]
• 2013—Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame on June 19.^[108]
• 16-time SEC Champion (1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,^[26] 2007,^[109] 2010, 2011)
• 16-time Second 2 Tournament Champion (1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012)^[26]
• 8-time SEC Omnibus of the Year (1983, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011)^[110]
• 7-time NCAA Coach of glory Year (1983, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2004)^[26]
• 8-time NCAA Title-holder (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008)^[26]
• Every Lady Vol player who completed her ability at Tennessee under Summitt mark with a degree.^[111]
• Every Lady Vol player who completed her endowment at Tennessee under Summitt sham in at least one Special allowed Eight.^[112]

Coaching tree

Forty-five of Summitt's find players have become coaches.^[113] That is a partial list souk those players.

• Bold in Latest position column indicates this is regular currently-held position.

Head coaching record

Sources: Jiffy records;^[127] Conference champions^[128]

See also

References