Patricia Susan Summitt was an American women's college basketball head coach who accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history at the time of her retirement.
31 Facts About Pat Summitt
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Pat Summitt served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012.
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Pat Summitt returned to the Olympics in 1984 as a head coach, guiding the US women's basketball team to a gold medal.
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Pat Summitt retired from coaching at age 59 following a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Pat Summitt was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 as a member of its inaugural class.
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Pat Summitt was named the Naismith Basketball Coach of the Century in 2000.
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In 2012, Pat Summitt was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards.
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Pat Summitt had four siblings: older brothers Tommy, Charles, and Kenneth, and a younger sister, Linda.
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When Pat Summitt was in high school, her family moved to nearby Henrietta so she could play basketball in Cheatham County, because Clarksville did not have a girls team.
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Each of Pat Summitt's brothers had received athletic scholarships, but her parents paid her way to college.
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Pat Summitt later co-captained the United States women's national basketball team as a player at the inaugural women's tournament in the 1976 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal.
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Pat Summitt recalled that era of women's basketball during a February 2009 interview with Time.
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Pat Summitt earned her 600th win with a 15-point victory over Marquette on November 23,1996.
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Additionally, Pat Summitt was named the Naismith Coach of the Century and Chamique Holdsclaw earned recognition as Naismith Women's Collegiate Player of the Century.
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Pat Summitt was presented the USBWA Most Courageous Award at the 2012 Final Four, and future awards were given in her name.
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Pat Summitt was named to the US women's basketball team invited to compete at the 1975 Pan American Games.
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Pat Summitt was named the head coach of the USA representative to the William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Pat Summitt was chosen as the head coach of the team representing the USA in 1984 at the William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Pat Summitt was widely recognized as one of the toughest coaches in college basketball history, men's or women's.
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Pat Summitt won 16 Southeastern Conference regular season titles with the Lady Vols, as well as 16 tournament titles.
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When Pat Summitt 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.
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Pat Summitt was a seven-time SEC Coach of the year and a seven-time NCAA Coach of the year and won three consecutive national titles from 1996 to 1998.
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Pat Summitt was known for scheduling tough opponents for her team to play in the regular season, in order to prepare them for the postseason.
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Pat Summitt finished her coaching career with 1,098 wins in 1,306 games coached in AIAW and NCAA Division I play.
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Pat Summitt won eight NCAA Division I championships as a coach; as of June 2016, this is the third-highest total in the history of NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball.
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Pat Summitt received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012.
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The couple had one son, Ross Tyler Pat Summitt, born in 1990.
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Tyler Pat Summitt, who played as a walk-on for the Tennessee men's basketball team, graduated from Tennessee in May 2012.
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Pat Summitt created a foundation to raise money for Alzheimer's research and worked to raise awareness of the disease.
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Pat Summitt died on June 28,2016, two weeks after her 64th birthday, at a senior living facility in Knoxville.
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Pat Summitt left the entirety of her estate to her son, Tyler.