I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn’t coming to me.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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Birth: | 14th June, 1952 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Basketball Player, Coach |
Pat Summitt is a former women's college basketball head coach. She now serves as the head coach emeritus of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She holds the most all-time wins for a coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division. She coached from 1974 to 2012, all with the Lady Vols, winning eight NCAA national championships, behind only the record 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 9 titles won by UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma. She is the only coach in NCAA history, and one of three college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 victories.
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