She loved the game but, once she reached high school, she found out that her school district did not offer girls' basketball. Her father, supportive of her talent, moved the family across the county line to a school district that had girls' basketball. Summit graduated from Cheatham County High in Ashland, in She then attended the University of Tennessee-Martin, earning a bachelor's degree in physical education in As a college student, she played with the Lady Pacers, the university's women's basketball team.
As a junior she played in the U. World University Games, held in the Soviet Union, winning the silver medal. She hoped to play on the U. Olympic team, but those hopes were nearly dashed when, during her senior year, she suffered a knee injury. An orthopedic surgeon told Summitt that she would not be able to play basketball again. But Summitt would not give up. Strengthened by her father's insistence that the doctor "needed to fix her knee because she was going to the Olympics," Summit told her best friend, according to Sports Illustrated, "That doctor's crazy as heck if he thinks I'm not going to play ball again!
After graduation, she was offered a job as the women's basketball assistant coach for her alma mater. After the head coach quit to pursue Ph. She had never coached a game before and had no assistant coach. But she pushed her fear aside and threw herself into this new challenge.
In addition to coaching, she also worked on her master's degree and taught physical education courses. At the same time, she worked on healing her knee and training herself for her Olympic dream. She worked out twice a day, losing twenty-seven pounds. Within a year, her knee was well enough for her to compete in the Pan American Games. When Summitt got a fish tank for the basketball offices at Tennessee and two of the fish tried to devour one another, she named them Pat and Geno.
Sometimes the coaches compared details of their contracts so they could help one another win raises in their salaries. Oddly, the more success UConn had, the more Geno seemed to resent Tennessee.
I wish her all the best. Summitt, a Tennessee native, drew upon her early experiences of learning to expect the most out of herself as a guidepost to her coaching career.
She learned to shoot hoops in a barn loft with her brothers, became an All-America basketball player at the University of Tennessee-Martin and won a silver medal on the U. She was inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame in She takes pride in the graduation rates and careers of her players.
She is married to R. Summitt and they have a son, Ross Tyler Summitt. She received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The tributes continue to this day and will for some time to come. UT recorded the very first three-peat in NCAA Division I women's basketball, seizing national titles in , and , with the third of those squads cruising to a school-best record.
Tennessee was a dominant SEC opponents during her tenure, including Summitt, who won silver as a player at the Olympics and coached the U. Using the attributes of discipline, hard work and sacrifice she learned while doing chores as a child on her family's farm, Summitt taught her players to embrace and embody those traits and, along the way, established a code of conduct she called her "Definite Dozen.
They are: Respect yourself and others. Take full responsibility. Develop and demonstrate loyalty. Learn to be a great communicator. Discipline yourself so no one else has to. Make hard work your passion. Don't just work hard, work smart. Put the team before yourself.
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