She stepped down as Tennessee’s coach in 2012, a year after announcing her diagnosis, but assumed the position of head coach emeritus with the Lady Vols, ABC News reported. Arizona (48-22) is here in Jay Johnson’s first season as coach after having not made the national tournament in the three years after the Wildcats’ 2012 national title.
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With that win, Summitt became the first U.S. Olympian to win a basketball medal and coach a medal-winning team.
Current Lady Vols Coach Holly Warlick credited Summitt with playing a “very significant role in molding me into the person I am”. She “won” every day of her life because of the relationships she developed, nurtured and cherished.
“The thing is: I have to keep living and doing what I want to do, and those players mean the world to me”. “We’re not going to sit here and feel sorry for Pat Summitt”. She was a D-1 basketball coach in the NCAA, and her son said she was “a hero and a mentor” to all around her.
“It wasn’t just a job”, she said.
Peyton Manning is remembering his friend Pat Summitt.
Summitt remained a pillar of the University of Tennessee community and culture until her death. But she didn’t step away from the sport she loved. Not Bobby Bowden. Not Geno Auriemma, whose rivalry with Summitt played a big role in raising the profile of the women’s game.
“Pat Summitt is synonymous with Tennessee, but she truly is a global icon who transcended sports and spent her entire life making a difference in other peoples’ lives”, said Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart. It was Summitt’s sixth title in her career. “She has passed the torch to all who coach; it’s now our turn to make her proud”. Plans are in the works for a public celebration of her life in Thompson-Boling Arena – which Tyler Summitt called “one of her favorite places”. A Clarksville native, Summitt will buried in Middle Tennessee with a private service. We should all take comfort knowing that those traits have now opened a door for her to everlasting peace in heaven; and I have no doubt, in the presence of Jesus, that Pat is now free of the pain she has suffered these past few years.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said Summitt’s impact on her players, the university and game of basketball will be felt for years to come.
“She’d have you over to her house, ‘ said Kesling, “She’d cook you a meal”. All told, her teams were 48-1 in first- and second-round games, 25-5 in the Sweet 16, 18-7 in the Elite Eight and 21-10 in the Final Four. In 2013, she also was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said, “I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Pat Summitt”. “It will continue for generations to come”.
The University of Tennessee became the first three-peat victor in NCAA women’s basketball history with a 93-75 win against Louisiana Tech. “It’s been about (how) we can find a cure for this disease, and she has done it facing it straight-on and she’s done it giving back as she always has”.
“We have lost a legend”, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Tuesday. Summitt’s fingerprints on the game of not just women’s college basketball – but college basketball at large – will be felt for years to come. She is the University of Tennessee.
Summitt served as head coach of women’s basketball at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville for 38 seasons.
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– No. 900: January 19, 2006 – Alexis Hornbuckle scores 15 points as Tennessee rallies from a 14-point deficit to give Summitt her 900th career victory in an 80-68 win over Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee.
