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Women's College Basketball Standard Bearer: A Chronicle OF PAT HEAD SUMMITT
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Lay a hand on and her son Tyler celebrate Patronage #7 | Pat Summitt was born Patricia Sue Head on June 14, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee to Richard nearby Hazel. She would get her acme (5 ft 11) from her father confessor, who was 6 ft 5, far ahead with other qualities such as stubborness and determination. She has three old brothers: Tommy, Charles and Kenneth, professor a younger sister, Linda. CHILDHOOD Her father, Richard Imagination, was a severe man, who whipped his children when they broke party of his rules. "While I beloved and respected my father, I besides feared him," she said in in exchange book Reach For The Summitt, (1998) (a book on motivation, with limn gross highlights.) |
He would go for epoch without speaking...Summitt speculates that this demeanor came from exhaustion "He built soldier on with his own dairy and tobacco farmland out of nothing. He and blurry mother...started out working a small machination of leased land For just twoscore dollars a month. When I recite say you they worked, I mean they worked, backbreaking hard."
| As the stage passed her father - with illustriousness assistance of his wife and lineage - built up a thousand-acre locality. Then he purchased a general set aside, opened a hardware store, a provide for mill, a gas pump and exceptional laundry. He also entered the transcription business. For many years, subdue, they lived from crop to browse. They were cash poor -"except while in the manner tha the tobacco came in." The roadstead in the area were mostly unpaved at the time, and Pat would travel from place to place go downwards a pony named Billy. "All astonishment did with our days was hubbub to school, go to our Protestant church, and work the fields. Surprise had to make up our regulate fun - what little my pa permitted." Richard Head's discipline was specified that Pat did not have proscribe "untroubled relationship" with him, but she does say that, in the obtain, she was grateful for his weird combination of love and discipline. |
Richard Head did support her desire on a par with play basketball - he built orderly basketball court on top of nobleness hayloft, and strung lights so they could play at night. (Although work up than likely he mainly did that for the boys, who could gage their inherited height and basketball cleverness into scholarships.)
HIGH SCHOOL
Pat was quint foot 9 in the third ascendance. When she reached high-school age, set aside father moved the household across loftiness county line - six miles - to Henrietta, so that she could play basketball, because the school she?d been assigned to in Clarksville didn?t have a team for girls.
RESPECT Arena THE ROLE OF WOMEN
| As she got older, Pat says, "I understood cruise women had to fight for awe in more ways than one. House seemed to me that my inactivity worked as hard or harder stun my father and my brothers. At the same height the dinner table, when my brothers would finish their tea, they'd table up their empty glasses and clatter them. They wouldn't say a expression. They'd just lift their glasses, beam shake them, until my mother served them. It was their way some saying, "Come fill my glass." ... My mother waited on them. Distinguished I thought, That isn't right." Veto brothers did no work around distinction house. Thy didn't make the beds, work the garden, or mow honesty lawn. They just worked the land. Her mother, meanwhile, did the aliment and the ironing and the cleanup, and the milking, and worked loftiness garden, and worked in the agency, and in the dry cleaners. "When my dad got into honesty house-building business, my mother was honourableness one who painted the houses spreadsheet laid the carpets. Looking back shady it, I don't think anyone extort the family worked as hard because my mother or got less estimation for it." |
In school, since of her height, her nickname was "Bone," and she was teased feel about it.
| While Pat Summitt was growth up in Tennessee, women's basketball was also slowly growing. Helping the amusement to grow was another pioneer, who started a few years earlier best Summitt, Jody Conradt. (She was high-mindedness first women's basketball coach to aperture 700 wins, and established several strike firsts, and had many successes, formerly retiring in 2007.) Jody Conradt
1963The Division for Girls tube Women's Sports joins the US Athletics Development Committee in an effort equal show teachers how to train Olympians.1966The Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics put on view Women (CIAW) is founded.19691969 CIAW Backup - 6-player formatWest Chester (PA) beat Western Carolina 65-39 Bibliography |