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Legendary women’s college basketball coach Pat Summitt will be buried at a private ceremony in middle Tennessee on Thursday. This tribute was written by Cierra Burdick, who was among the former ...
Summitt won eight NCAA championships at the University of Tennessee. — -- Pat Summitt, the legendary University of Tennessee women's basketball coach, died today in Tennessee, the Pat Summitt ...
Limiting Summitt's legacy to mere numbers and records, however, would be unjust. Sports icon and women's basketball pioneer Pat Summitt passed away Tuesday at age 64, just five years after being ...
Pat Summitt, the former Tennessee Lady Vols head coach and the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, died on June 28 at Sherrill Hill Senior Living in Knoxville. Summitt, 64, stepped down ...
The woman, the myth, the legend. It’s impossible to write the history of Tennessee without mentioning Pat Summitt. Yes, her impact on the game of basketball is well-documented, but her passion ...
"I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating," former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt told 60 Minutes in 1999 (clips in player, above). "And although ...
When Pat Summitt became coach of the Tennessee women's basketball team in 1974, she decided that the players should refer to her simply as Pat. " I didn't want them to be intimidated," she said.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Pat Summitt sat in her office signing basketballs with what surely must be the cheapest autograph in history, given how generously she has doled it out over 38 years as Tennes ...
Pat Summitt, who built the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers into a perennial power on the way to becoming the winningest coach in the history of major college basketball, died Tuesday.