La Tech Legend Barmore speaks highly of Pat Summitt after passing

Pat Summitts historic career not only made Tennessee womens basketball a household name, her influence marched out of Knoxville and destroyed any notion that a woman or a mother couldnt succeed as a hardwood general.

In her second game as a head coach, the 22-year-old Summitt (then known as Pat Head) led Tennessee to a 69-32 victory over Middle Tennessee State in front of 53 fans in Knoxville.

Fargas has a 165-97 record with six NCAA Tournament appearances in eight seasons as a head coach, first at UCLA and now at LSU.

The women’s basketball coach for UW-Stevens Point said Summitt had a profound impact on her.

On top of those stats, every one of her players who completed her eligibility at Tennessee under Summitt played in at least one Elite Eight game, and all graduated from the university.

From players to leaders on the sideline, the basketball world is remembering Summitt.

Catchings went with her mom to see Summit toward the end of past year.

Wade says Summitt was intense and a student of the game.

No. 700: December 5, 1999 – Tennessee’s 85-62 victory over Wisconsin allows Summitt to join Texas’ Jody Conradt as the only women’s basketball coaches at the time with 700 career wins.

And that is something James believes may be her lasting legacy. Probably the best thing to me and my most special memory is that she interacted and talked with my little guy.

Summitt’s death touched most corners the country, and particularly in the Bay Area, after casting a larger-than-life shadow as coach of Tennessee for 38 years. “I was curious as to what she would want to ask me, I said, because she had won all these championships and she was just such a legendary coach and iconic figure so, but she wanted to know about our 2-2-1 press that we ran here at UofL, with Coach Crum, was so famous for, our switching man-to-man defense”.

Summitt put aside the sting of the fresh defeat to think about her sport’s marquee event.

At the end of Daughertys playing career, she attended a camp in the 1970s that featured Summitt.

“She wanted to see people do better and be better in life inside and outside of basketball”, explained east Nashville’s Erica Haynes-Overton.

“Pat was the greatest coach of all time”, university Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said in a statement. Cronan called her the “most courageous person I’ve ever known in fighting this disease” and she was “determined to make a difference” in bringing attention to it. “My thoughts and prayers are with Tyler and their entire family”. “You were not going to step on the floor if you missed a class, her rules were very simple”. She became the first millionaire coach in women’s basketball in 2006 and was paid $1.5 million in her final season in 2011-12.