Pat Summitt
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| Pat Summitt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Head coach | |
| College | University of Tennessee | |
| Sport | Women's college basketball | |
| Born | June 14, 1952 | |
| Place of birth | Clarksville, TN | |
| Career Highlights | ||
| Overall | 947-180 | |
| Championships | ||
| 1987 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 1989 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 1991 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 1996 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 1997 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 1998 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship |
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| Awards | ||
| 1993 SEC Coach of the Year 1983 NCAA Coach of the Year 1987 NCAA Coach of the Year 1989 NCAA Coach of the Year 1994 NCAA Coach of the Year 1995 SEC Coach of the Year 1995 NCAA Coach of the Year 1998 SEC Coach of the Year 1998 NCAA Coach of the Year 2001 SEC Coach of the Year 2003 SEC Coach of the Year 2004 SEC Coach of the Year 2004 NCAA Coach of the Year 2007 SEC Coach of the Year Naismith Coach of the 20th Century |
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| Coaching positions | ||
| 1974-current | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | |
| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's Basketball | |||
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| Silver | 1976 Montreal | Team Competition | |
Pat Summitt (born Patricia Sue Head on June 14, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is the coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She currently is finishing her 32nd year of coaching, all with the Lady Vols. Her career coaching record as of (April 3rd, 2007) is 947-180.
As a player at the University of Tennessee-Martin, Summitt was an All American and co-captain of the 1976 Olympic basketball team.
Currently she has written two books (with the help of Sally Jenkins), "Reach for the Summitt" (a motivation book) and "Raise the Roof" (about the Lady Vols' undefeated season in which they won the 1998 NCAA championship).
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[edit] Coaching milestones
In 2003, Summitt joined a handful of coaches that have claimed 800 or more career victories in NCAA basketball. She became the fastest coach to reach that milestone.
On March 22, 2005, Summitt became the all-time leader for games won among NCAA Division I basketball coaches, men's as well as women's, when her number-one seed Lady Vols defeated ninth-seed Purdue in the second round of the 2005 NCAA women's basketball tournament. It was her 880th win as a coach, breaking North Carolina men's coach Dean Smith's former record of 879.
On January 19, 2006, she won her 900th game, an 80-68 win over Vanderbilt University.
In May 2006, she became the first coach of a women's college basketball team to earn $1 million per year.
In February 2007, she became the first female coach of women's college basketball to be put on a Wheaties box.
[edit] Tournament record
Pat Summitt has seven national championships, which is the most among all women's coaches, and second most among all college coaches (former UCLA men's coach John Wooden won 10 national championships). She also has 14 Southeastern Conference regular season titles with the Lady Vols, as well as 12 tournament titles. [1] Summitt's Lady Vols have made an appearance in every NCAA Tournament, as well as every Sweet 16, and have appeared 17 times in the Final Four. [1] She was also named the Naismith Coach of the Century. [1] When she made her 13th trip to the Final Four as a coach in 2002, she surpassed John Wooden as the NCAA coach with the most trips to the Final Four. Summitt is a 7-time SEC Coach of the year and a 7-time NCAA Coach of the year and has won seven national titles, including three in a row from 1996 to 1998. [1] Summitt is known for scheduling tough opponents for her team to play in the regular season, in order to prepare them for March. In her years of coaching, her teams have played top ten ranked teams over 250 times. [1]
In the 1997-1998 tournament, her team went undefeated the entire season, winning all 30 regular and 9 tournament games, earning Summitt's sixth championship. Some sportswriters considered that year's team the greatest team ever in college women's basketball. This was the third consecutive championship for the Lady Vols, and the third for heralded players Chamique Holdsclaw and Kellie Jolly (now Harper). Holdsclaw was named a consensus All-American, as was freshman Tamika Catchings.
The UConn Huskies are the only other team to repeat the feat (from 2002-2004), a streak which also included a 39-0 undefeated season in 2002. The Huskies' championships in both 2003 and 2004 came at Tenneesee's expense in the championship game.
Summitt and the 1996-1997 championship team were the subject of an HBO documentary titled "A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back". That year, the Lady Vols posted just a 23-10 record heading into the NCAA tournament, with two losses to Louisiana Tech, setbacks against national powers Georgia, Stanford and UConn, but also shocking losses to SEC lesser lights Arkansas, Auburn, and LSU (which was 7-20 just two seasons prior and had not yet established itself as a perennial national power). However, Tennessee righted itself during the tournament, shocking previously undefeated UConn in the regional final, 91-81, before defeating Notre Dame and Old Dominion in the Final Four in Cincinnati.
[edit] Awards and Titles
- 14-time SEC Champions (1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004[1], 2007[2])
- 12-time SEC Tournament Champions (1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006) [1]
- 7-time SEC Coach of the Year (1983, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2007)[3]
- 7-time NCAA Coach of the Year (1983, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2004) [1]
- 7-time NCAA Champions (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007) [1]
[edit] Honors
In 1999, Summitt was inducted with the inaugural class to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2000, she joined Isiah Thomas as inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Summitt is the only person to have two courts used by NCAA Division I basketball teams named in her honor: "Pat Summitt Court" at the University of Tennessee-Martin, and "The Summitt" at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
She also has a street named after her, "Pat Summitt Street," on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus.
[edit] Pat Summitt's career record
| School | Season | Wins | Losses | Postseason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 1974 | 16 | 8 | State |
| Tennessee | 1975 | 16 | 11 | 2nd State |
| Tennessee | 1976 | 28 | 5 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1977 | 27 | 4 | 1st AIAW Poll |
| Tennessee | 1978 | 30 | 9 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1979 | 33 | 5 | 2nd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1980 | 25 | 6 | 2nd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1981 | 22 | 10 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1982 | 25 | 8 | 2nd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1983 | 23 | 10 | 2nd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1984 | 22 | 10 | 3rd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1985 | 24 | 10 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1986 | 28 | 6 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1987 | 31 | 3 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1988 | 35 | 2 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1989 | 27 | 6 | 2nd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1990 | 30 | 5 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1991 | 28 | 3 | 3rd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1992 | 29 | 3 | 2nd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1993 | 31 | 2 | 3rd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1994 | 34 | 3 | 2nd NCAA Final Four |
| Tennessee | 1995 | 32 | 4 | 2nd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 1996 | 29 | 10 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1997 | 39 | 0 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1998 | 31 | 3 | NCAA Champions |
| Tennessee | 1999 | 33 | 4 | 2nd NCAA Final Four |
| Tennessee | 2000 | 31 | 3 | 3rd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 2001 | 29 | 5 | 3rd NCAA Final Four |
| Tennessee | 2002 | 33 | 5 | 2nd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 2003 | 31 | 4 | 2nd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 2004 | 30 | 5 | 3rd Final Four |
| Tennessee | 2005 | 31 | 5 | 2nd NCAA Regional |
| Tennessee | 2006 | 34 | 3 | NCAA Champions |
| Career | Totals | 947 | 180 | As of April 3, 2007 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Player Bio - Pat Summitt. Retrieved on February 25, 2007.
- ^ No. 2 Tennessee Pulls Away from No. 7 Lady Tigers, 56-51. Retrieved on February 25, 2007.
- ^ 2007 SEC Women's Basketball Awards Announced. Retrieved on February 28, 2007.
[edit] External links
| Current Head Women's Basketball Coaches of the Southeastern Conference |
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Melanie Balcomb (Vanderbilt) | Bob Starkey (interim) (LSU) | Mickie DeMoss (Kentucky) | Sharon Fanning (Mississippi State) | Nell Fortner (Auburn) | Susie Gardner (Arkansas) | Andy Landers (Georgia) | Carolyn Peck (Florida) | Carol Ross (Ole Miss) | Stephany Smith (Alabama) | Pat Summitt (Tennessee) | Susan Walvius (South Carolina) | |
| Preceded by Gary Hall, Sr. Lawrie Mifflin Drew Pearson Cynthia Potter Sally Ride Harry Smith |
Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) Class of 1999 Dave Casper Anita DeFrantz Pat Summitt Lynn Swann Robert R. Thomas Bill Walton |
Succeeded by Dianne Baker Junior Bridgeman Pat Haden Lisa Rosenblum John Dickson Stufflebeem John Trembley |
Categories: 1952 births | Living people | American basketball coaches | Basketball Hall of Fame | American basketball players | Olympic competitors for the United States | Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics | Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coaches | Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | People from Clarksville, Tennessee | People from Knoxville, Tennessee | University of Tennessee at Martin alumni
