Posted on 06/28/2016 7:05:02 AM PDT by Loud Mime
The lanky Tennessee farm girl they nicknamed "Bone" grew to heights that no one could have anticipated. She traveled the world, became a kind of surrogate mom to hundreds of daughters and helped fundamentally change collegiate athletics.
She was born on Flag Day, June 14, 1952, and personified the American Dream. Like most iconic figures, she inspired an almost mythical kind of devotion. But how could someone be so larger-than-life magnificent and yet so humbly warm and real?
That was the essence of Pat Summitt, the longtime Tennessee women's basketball coach who died Tuesday morning at age 64, nearly five years after making public her diagnosis of early-onset dementia, Alzheimer's type.
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there probably will never be another Pat Summit because despite the fact that so many disparage womens sports, men seem to be getting the majority of the coaching positions, especially in womens college bb...I don’t get it...
RIP to a great lady!!
She blazed a trail for that sport. RIP Coach Pat.
As a UConn Huskies fan, it was the UCT/UTN matches that got me interested in the sport.
Prayers up for Pat and her family. So sad...
In my work I had many meals with Pat; only two were alone with her. She was passionate about developing a player - her focus was intense, as all olympians.
I loved seeing her win the Olympics in ‘84. The team knew her importance.
I first heard of her when the Lady Vols went up against the Lady Huskies mid-January of 1995. She put women’s college b-ball not only on the map, but in a part of the country which is much more famous for the fall sport, college football,the south.
1) Pat Summit
2) Patricia Neal
3) Dolly Parton
There may not be another female coach like Ms. Summit , but I think it’s fair to say that Geno Auriemma’s reoord at UConn is just as impressive as hers , and his players as well havea 100% grad rate .
Gene gets the pick of the high schoolers - he’s inside the Olympic movement which provides a great advantage over all the other coaches.
He’s a good coach, but without the recruiting advantage, we just don’t know how good, do we?
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