Pat Summitt
“When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score,” said the famous Pat Summitt, as she did an interview with Oprah. One may say that Summitt is the utmost inspirational woman to walk the earth. She was an American women’s college basketball coach who, throughout her career, helped people live their dreams and impressed many others.
Pat Summitt was born on June 14th, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Throughout her childhood, her parents, Richard and Hazel Head were known for working hard in addition to having a thousand-acre dairy and tobacco farm that they lived on. Summitt grew up with her three older brothers, Kenneth, Charles, and Tommy Head. She described her childhood as, “All we did with our days was go to school, go to our Methodist church and work the fields. We had to make up our own fun – what little my father permitted.” When Summitt as well as her brothers would finish their chores, they would all climb up to the hayloft and play a game of two-on-two. In the year of 1966, the Head family decided to move to Henrietta, Tennessee so Summitt could play the sport she loved, basketball. She started her career as a freshman at the Cheatham County High School. “Pat could dribble …show more content…
She coached the Lady Vols for an outstanding 38 seasons! Summitt’s team always qualified for the postseason tournaments, which rarely happens. Throughout her whole coaching career, she received an amazing total of 1,098 wins. That is the most out of any college coach in Division 1 history! Summitt had a total of eight national titles combined with being inducted into six halls of fame. One may say that Summitt’s coaching career was the most impressive out of any coach that has coached at the college
“When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score,” said the famous Pat Summitt, as she did an interview with Oprah. One may say that Summitt is the utmost inspirational woman to walk the earth. She was an American women’s college basketball coach who, throughout her career, helped people live their dreams and impressed many others.
Pat Summitt was born on June 14th, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Throughout her childhood, her parents, Richard and Hazel Head were known for working hard in addition to having a thousand-acre dairy and tobacco farm that they lived on. Summitt grew up with her three older brothers, Kenneth, Charles, and Tommy Head. She described her childhood as, “All we did with our days was go to school, go to our Methodist church and work the fields. We had to make up our own fun – what little my father permitted.” When Summitt as well as her brothers would finish their chores, they would all climb up to the hayloft and play a game of two-on-two. In the year of 1966, the Head family decided to move to Henrietta, Tennessee so Summitt could play the sport she loved, basketball. She started her career as a freshman at the Cheatham County High School. “Pat could dribble …show more content…
She coached the Lady Vols for an outstanding 38 seasons! Summitt’s team always qualified for the postseason tournaments, which rarely happens. Throughout her whole coaching career, she received an amazing total of 1,098 wins. That is the most out of any college coach in Division 1 history! Summitt had a total of eight national titles combined with being inducted into six halls of fame. One may say that Summitt’s coaching career was the most impressive out of any coach that has coached at the college