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	ESPN.com - ncw - Reaching the Summitt
		The call came in three years ago last August: Pat Summitt was going to be in Kansas City for a coaching clinic and had about an hour and half available around lunchtime Saturday if I wanted to talk to her.
		Now Summitt is being inducted into the Hall, the one in Springfield, Mass., and the last thing she said that day in Kansas City three years ago could be on her plaque because it explains exactly how Pat Summitt became the coach she is.
		Pat Summitt on all that has changed in her 25 years of coaching Tennessee women's basketball.
	espn.go.com /ncw/columns/voepel/summitt/1012/814325.html (1941 words)

	Player Bio: Pat Summitt :: Women's Basketball
		Summitt, who just completed her amazing 31st season at the helm of the Lady Vols, has kept her elite program in the winner's circle for over three decades, and there is no chance of a let-up in sight.
		Last season, Summitt, her staff and nine scholarship players, preserved through one of the toughest coaching challenges in Summitt's tenure, even with all the hype surrounding the Lady Vols' fortunes in the 2004-05 season coupled with the circus of becoming the winningest coach ever in all of collegiate basketball.
		Summitt became just the fourth women's basketball coach to earn Hall of Fame honors when she was inducted with the Class of 2000, which included former NBA greats Isiah Thomas and Bob McAdoo, legendary high school coach Morgan Wootten and contributors C.M. Newton and Danny Biasone.
	utladyvols.collegesports.com /sports/w-baskbl/mtt/summitt_pat00.html (4382 words)

	Pat Head Summit Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Summitt was found to be the youngest coach in the nation to reach 300 victories (34 years old), 400 victories (37 years old), 500 wins (41 years old), 600 victories (44 years old), 700 wins (47 years old) and 800 victories (50 years old).
		Summitt, who has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year in 1987, 1989, 1994 and 1998, led the Lady Vols to a perfect 39-0 record in the 1997-98 season and the NCAA championship.
		In a poll conducted on coaches ages and victories, Summitt was found to be the youngest coach in the nation to reach 300 victories (34 years old), 400 victories (37 years old), 500 wins (41 years old), 600 victories (44 years old), the youngest to 700 (47 years old and to 800 (50).
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/PatheadSummitt.htm (1010 words)

	Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Pat Summitt, Speaker On: Athletics / Sports, Coaching, Motivation, Inspiration
		It is no surprise that the team is coached by none other than Pat Summitt, a living legend, who said the 1997-98 Lady Vols gave her the most pleasurable coaching experience of her storied career.
		Considered by many to be the best women's basketball coach in the history of the game, Summitt began her career at age 22 when she accepted the head-coaching job at the University of Tennessee.
		To her athletes, Summitt is the perfect role model who instills a pattern of success in her players and constantly challenges them to reach their potential, not only as athletes but also as students.
	www.speaking.com /speakers/patsummitt.html (643 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / College / Women's basketball / Vols' Pat Summitt breaks NCAA win record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Summitt was concerned the record chase would be a distraction during tournament time.
		Summitt took over the women's program at Tennessee in 1974 at age 22 when there were no scholarships and she had to wash the uniforms and drive the team van.
		Summitt becomes the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, passing Dean Smith with her 880th victory after Tennessee beat Purdue 75-54 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/womens_basketball/articles/2005/03/23/pat_summitt_breaks_ncaa_win_record (808 words)

	Tennessee's Pat Summitt passes Smith atop win list - NCAA Sports.com
		Summitt also was surprised at the renaming of the court in her honor.
		Summitt paced in front of the bench and clapped at each turnover her team forced.
		Summitt overtook Texas' Jody Conradt as the winningest women's college coach early in the 2002-03 season.
	www.ncaasports.com /basketball/womens/gamecenter/recap/NCAAW_20050322_PUR@TN (903 words)

	MYSTICS: Summitt: Washington Mystics Player Personnel Consultant
		Summitt brings to the Mystics 28 years of collegiate and international coaching experience, a winning record that ranks her sixth amongst active NCAA coaches and a prestigious list of accolades that includes induction to both the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
		Summitt expanded her international experience in the game of basketball when, just a year after having competed as a player in the Olympics, she was given head coaching duties of the U.S. Junior National team in 1977, also the first year the Lady Vols reached the NCAA Final Four with a 28-5 overall record.
		Summitt was also named Naismith College Coach of the year in 1987, 1989, 1994 and 1998 and Naismith College Coach of the Century in 2000.
	www.wnba.com /mystics/news/summitt_bio_040202.html (746 words)

	deseretnews.com \| No. 880 makes Summitt No. 1 all-time in victories
		Summitt tied Smith at 879 with an easy win over Western Carolina in the first round Sunday night and passed the former North Carolina men's coach with another convincing victory.
		Summitt improved to 880-171, while Smith was 879-254 when he retired in 1997 after 36 years with the Tar Heels.
		The 52-year-old Summitt waved to the crowd and hugged family members, who came down to the court to celebrate with her.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600120660,00.html (523 words)

	Pat Summitt/Lady Vols News
		Summitt, who is a native of Ashland City, which is located near Nashville, became the all-time winningest coach last season with a second-round victory over Purdue in the NCAA tournament.
		Summitt was clearly unhappy with her team’s defensive play over Georgia, but the Lady Vols rebounded in Sunday’s 79-56 win over Mississippi State forcing the Lady Bulldogs to commit 21 turnovers while the Lady Vols made 13 steals to MSU’s four.
		Summitt who has coached 18 All-Americans including four-time honorees Chamique Holdsclaw and Tamika Catchings along with longtime Lady Vol assistant Holly Warlick, has been named NCAA Coach of the Year seven times and was declared Naismith Coach of the Century in 2000, isn’t ready for retirement at the age of 53.
	patsummitt.blogspot.com (8348 words)

	Sports: Success at the Summitt
		Summitt tells the campers to write down every drill, technique and tidbit at the end of each day to take home and work on.
		Summitt is not allowed to comment on potential recruits, and if she does choose to go after Redding and/or Roegiers-Jensen, NCAA rules forbid her from even phoning them until next June, before their senior year.
		Summitt asks UT assistant coach Holly Warlick, who is walking with Redding and Roegiers-Jensen, to drive Summitt's convertible silver Mercedes CLK 430 from Stokely to Thompson-Boling.
	www.sptimes.com /News/070301/news_pf/Sports/Success_at_the_Summit.shtml (1532 words)

	Pat Summitt - The Pinnacle of Success
		Patricia Head Summitt was born on June 14, 1952 in Henrietta, Tennessee, the daughter of Richard and Hazel Albright Head.
		Pat Summitt is a goodwill ambassador for the University of Tennessee and women's basketball.
		She is married to Sevier County Bank president R.B. Summitt and they have a son, Ross Tyler, born September 21, 1990 several hours after a harrowing plane trip from Pennsylvania back to Tennessee when Summitt went into labor while recruiting Michelle Marciniak.
	www.meredy.com /patsummitt (1346 words)

	ESPN.com: NCW - Standing Pat: Summitt's milestone wins
		Some say the road to Pat Summitt's success all began more than 30 years ago, when she took over Tennessee in September 1974, then co-captained Team USA to a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics.
		Others argue that Summitt truly broke onto the national scene in the '80s, when she coached the USA to its first gold medal in women's basketball in Olympic competition (1984) and won her first two NCAA titles.
		Either way, Summitt ensured her legendary status in the 1990s, when she won four national championships, including a then-unprecedented three straight from 1996-98.
	espn.go.com /ncw/s/summitt_timeline.html (934 words)

	Pat Summitt was born June 14
		Pat Summitt started playing basketball with her brothers in the hayloft on the family farm.
		Some of the notable achievements of Pat Summitt are that while she was still in college she was apart of the 1973 U.S. World Games Team and earned a silver medal.
		I picked Pat Summitt because she knows what she is talking about in basketball and she is a good role model.
	volweb.utk.edu /SCHOOL/sullivan/bluffms/summit.htm (309 words)

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		A Pat Summitt team has never lost in the first or second round of the Tournament, and I don't suspect they'll start this year.
		I recently asked Summitt if she could have envisioned what she and the program have accomplished back in 1974 when the freshly graduated 22 year old became the head coach at Tennessee.
		There may be a lot of records, but there's only one Pat Summitt; arguably the best thing to happen to women's basketball and most certainly the best thing for the Lady Vols and their fans.
	www.wbir.com /news/news.aspx?storyid=24171&provider=rss (996 words)

	ABC News: Person of the Week:Pat Summitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		March 25, 2005 —; Pat Summitt, coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee, this week won her 880th career victory when her team advanced in the NCAA championship.
		Summitt, 52, was 22 when she first got the job, having never coached before.
		Summitt's rules are clear on and off the court.
	abcnews.go.com /WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=614148&page=1 (397 words)

	WNBA.com: Catchings and Harrison on Pat Summitt and Win #800
		Harrison was a member of the 1991 NCAA Championship Team, one of six UT teams Summit has coached to the title in her 29-year career.
		Harrison: I always say whenever anyone asks me about Pat Summitt — and I’ve been asked that question quite a few times — is the biggest compliment I can give to Pat and the university is that if I had to do it all over again, I’d go back to the University of Tennessee.
		Catchings: Pat's willingness and desire to work hard and to put in an all-or-nothing effort have helped her be the coach that she is and reach the point that she has.
	www.wnba.com /features/harrison_on_pat_summitt.html (1034 words)

	The Seattle Times: College Sports: Knoxville: Summitt's win puts her atop the NCAA
		SUSAN WALSH / AP Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, right, hugs her mother Hazel Head last night after the Vols beat Purdue in the second round of the women's NCAA tournament for Summitt's 880th career win.
		KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pat Summitt stood at midcourt surrounded by her husband, son and 79-year-old mother, waved to cheering fans and smiled when Tennessee unveiled the new name for its court.
		Summitt broke Dean Smith's career victory record last night, getting No. 880 in the Vols' 75-54 win over Purdue in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/collegesports/2002216632_womknox23.html (1128 words)

	pat head summitt personal appearances, representation, basketball, Pat Head Summitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a player, Summitt won an Olympic silver medal in 1976 and as an international coach she brought home the first Women's Basketball gold medal in Olympic competition in 1984.
		Pat Head Summitt led her Tennessee Lady Volunteers to NCAA Championships in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, and 1997.
		In the spring of 1994 and 1997, Summitt was named the Coach of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Columbus, Ohio, and also was a recipient at the 28th Victor Awards (benefiting the City of Hope) as the Women's Basketball Coach of the Year in 1994.
	www.sportsstarsusa.com /basketball/summit_pat_head.html (291 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Pat Summitt
		Pat Summitt became head coach of women's basketball at Tennessee in 1974; since then she has achieved an astounding.813 average and won more national championships than any coach, man or woman, since the legendary John Wooden.
		So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and...
		Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, is a phenomenon in women's basketball. Her ferociously competitive teams have won three NCAA championships in a row--1996, 1997, and 1998. The 1997-98 Lady Vols posted a historic 39-0 record, prompting the New York Times, among many others, to proclaim them "the best women's...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=30278 (287 words)

	"Reach for the Summit" by Pat Summitt
		I was absolutely thrilled when my mom came home from the bookstore one day and told me that Pat Summitt's first book "Reach for the Summit" was now out in paperback.
		Pat tells about the birth of her Son, Abby Conklin's first Drink, doing a 360 in her car in the snow, her son Tyler's first soccer match, and other stories and somehow, without the reader even noticing, relates them back to one of her "Definite Dozen".
		Pat Summitt wants you to understand that no matter what position you are in, you can be in control of who you are, and what other people think of you, and the way you treat others, even if you are not in control of what is going on around you.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/757/18395 (472 words)

	ABC 7 News - Pat Summitt Goes for NCAA Record at Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Pat Summitt is on the verge of becoming the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history.
		Summitt hasn't been fond of the attention focused on the record chase while her team tries to make a run for a seventh national title, and she certainly isn't preoccupied with proving the list of all-time victories should include men's and women's coaches.
		Summitt spoke to Smith last week and he encouraged her to go for the record.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/0305/215048.html (969 words)

	Tennessee's Pat Summitt Gets 800th Win :: Head coach reaches milestone as Lady Vols beat No. 25 DePaul 76-57.
		Summitt was hired as a graduate teaching assistant and women's coach at Tennessee in 1974 at age 22.
		Summitt's husband, R.B., and 12-year-old son Tyler were by her side.
		Pat Summitt smiles as she stands with her team after claiming her 800th career victory Tuesday with a 76-57 win over DePaul.
	www.cstv.com /sports/w-baskbl/stories/011403abg.html (858 words)

	ESPN.com: COLLEGE BASKETBALL
		Summitt got No. 880 to pass Dean Smith for the D-I record -- and had a court named after her -- as UT beat Purdue.
		Despite all her success, Pat Summitt has never hesitated to turn to her peers to add to her repertoire.
		In all, 57 of Pat Summitt's former players and assistants are coaching at the pro, college or high school ranks.
	sports-att.espn.go.com /ncw/feature/featureStory?page=alone_summitt (496 words)

	Women's Sports Foundation Go Get Fit
		But while surpassing the legendary Dean Smith in career wins allowed Pat Summitt to once again share her success with her extended basketball family, the coach isn’t quite ready to cash in her chips.
		Hey, it’s not like Summitt has lost her fastball, but when you’re talking about who’s No. 1, the standards and the stakes are sky high.
		Now Summitt heads to a record 16th Final Four, but without her nemesis UConn, which was routed by Stanford in the Sweet 16.
	www.womenssportsfoundation.org /partners/girlzonestore_pins/sports/gogetfit/article.html?record=136 (672 words)

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