Pat Summitt, widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of sports, has led Tennessee to 11 national championships. She is the first woman to win 1,000 games as a college basketball coach. She led her Lady Vols to two NCAA titles during her career. She also won Olympic gold medals as a player on the U.S
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Women's National Team in 1972 and 1976. Pat grew up in rural Tennessee, where she played basketball for her high school team and later became the first female athlete at Tennessee to play varsity basketball by earning a spot on the freshman squad. Upon graduation from Tennessee in 1973, Summitt used her scholarship to attend graduate school at that same university and then began her coaching career as an assistant under Joanne Boykin at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP).
Summitt was named head coach at UTEP in 1975 and remained there until 1983, when she moved to Knoxville to take over as head coach at The University of Tennessee Women's Volleyball Team.