-
Tips for becoming a good boxer - November 6, 2020
-
7 expert tips for making your hens night a memorable one - November 6, 2020
-
5 reasons to host your Christmas party on a cruise boat - November 6, 2020
-
What to do when you’re charged with a crime - November 6, 2020
-
Should you get one or multiple dogs? Here’s all you need to know - November 3, 2020
-
A Guide: How to Build Your Very Own Magic Mirror - February 14, 2019
-
Our Top Inspirational Baseball Stars - November 24, 2018
-
Five Tech Tools That Will Help You Turn Your Blog into a Business - November 24, 2018
-
How to Indulge on Vacation without Expanding Your Waist - November 9, 2018
-
5 Strategies for Businesses to Appeal to Today’s Increasingly Mobile-Crazed Customers - November 9, 2018
Legendary Women’s Basketball Coach Pat Summitt Has Died
In death, legendary women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt has brought out reaction from a wide mix of people.
Advertisement
Patricia Sue Head Summitt was a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who coached the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers for 38 years.
Her son, Tyler Summitt, said Tuesday morning that his mother had died peacefully at a retirement home in Knoxville. “Even though it’s incredibly hard to come to terms that she is no longer with us, we can all find peace in knowing she no longer carries the heavy burden of this disease”, Tyler added.
Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in U.S. Division I college basketball history, died on Tuesday at the age of 64, the University of Tennessee said. Pat Summitt earned a salary of $250 a month and her coaching duties included washing the player’s uniforms, driving the team bus and organizing donut sales to help pay for travel.
“Of course, she was a huge influence with her passion for the game and all she did for the game”, Ward said of Summitt, the NCAA leader in Final Four appearances and victories for a women’s basketball coach.
As such, nobody has ever been a greater ambassador for a sport than Pat Summitt was for women’s basketball.
Holly Warlick: She played for Tennessee and then worked as an assistant on Summitt’s staff for 27 seasons before replacing her as the Lady Vols’ coach.
“I want to keep doing the right things for women all the time”, Summitt said in June 2011 after being inducted into her fifth Hall of Fame.
Summitt took over as coach the job of Tennessee Lady Volunteers at the age of 22 in 1974. When news of her illness became public in 2012, “We Back Pat” became a rallying cry for thousands upon thousands of students and supporters who attended games bearing t-shirts and signs with the slogan. Summitt concluded her head coaching career with a 1,098-208 record and an.841 winning percentage. That’s because in her senior year at the University of Tennessee-Martin, she had suffered a torn ACL.
With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and prominence on a campus steeped in the traditions of the football-rich south until she retired in 2012.
Whenever someone asks me for a definitive memory of Pat Summitt, I’ll tell them about the grilled cheese sandwich. “I will miss her dearly and I am honored to call her my friend”. “It wouldn’t have mattered because Pat could flat out coach”, Manning said in a statement. She went to high school in Henrietta, Tennessee, where she played basketball. She would return to the Olympics as a coach in 1984, leading the US women’s team its first gold medal during the Summer Games in Los Angeles.
February 4, 2012: Summitt helped cut down the nets in Nashville after Tennessee won the SEC tournament with a 70-58 victory over LSU. At the time, Summitt was known for having “corn-fed chicks” on her roster, big and strong but not talented enough to win national titles.
She was named SEC Coach of the Year eight times (1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011).
Advertisement
“She was one of the people I consulted with following my junior year when I was deciding whether to turn pro early or stay in college”, Manning said in a statement, via NFL.com. She was the co-captain of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, which won the silver medal.