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PATRICIA SUE HEAD SUMMITT
Born: June 14, 1952, in Clarksville, Tenn.
Education: University of Tennessee-Martin, where she was an All-America basketball player at Tennessee-Martin and earned a B.S. in physical education; M.S. in physical education from Tennessee-Knoxville
Halls of Fame: Inducted in 2000 into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; 1999 into Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame; 1996 into National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s Hall of Fame; 1990 into the Women’s Sports Foundation Hall of Fame; also member Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame.
Coaching career: 38 seasons, all at Tennessee, 1,098-208 (.840), most wins for a basketball coach at any four-year college or university, men’s or women’s, with 47% of games against ranked opponents and a 440-168 record (.724); faced 164 different opponents over 35 conferences; 2000 Naismith coach of the century. Seven-time NCAA coach of the year, eight NCAA championships (1987, ’89, ’91, ’96, ’97, ’98, with a 39-0 record, 2007, ’08), second to Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma among NCAA Division I women’s coaches. Eighteen Final Four appearances, most among all Division I coaches (men or women). Sixteen Southeastern Conference titles and 16 SEC tournament titles, eight-time SEC coach of the year; played on the USA’s silver medal team at the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal, coached the U.S. team to a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles — the first in U.S. Olympic basketball history to play on and coach medal-winning teams.
Among players coached: Candace Parker, Kara Lawson, Tamika Catchings, Chamique Holdsclaw, Nikki McCray
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