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00:00:01Can I bring your chin down a little bit and then give me that glare?
00:00:06Pat Summitt of Tennessee has reached a milestone
00:00:08no other Division I women's college basketball coach has ever reached.
00:00:12Career win number 800.
00:00:14They were dominant. They were the best team in the country.
00:00:18One word to describe Pat Summitt is intense.
00:00:21Three seconds! Somebody count!
00:00:23You take anything outside, you're coming out. Rebound!
00:00:27She was really the first in so many ways.
00:00:28She was so much smarter than people realize too.
00:00:31One thousand career wins!
00:00:34Pat put it out there that women can do whatever they want to do.
00:00:38She always saw what was beyond basketball.
00:00:41Every player that's played at the University of Tennessee for Pat Summitt has a diploma.
00:00:46She's been more than a coach to us and she'll be more than a coach to me for the rest
00:00:50of my life.
00:00:51It's really, really hard to quantify everything, the breadth and depth of the impact she's had.
00:00:56Everybody loved her, really loved her.
00:00:59Pat Summitt is the winningest coach in college basketball history.
00:01:05Pat Summitt has only been an in-law for the rest of the year.
00:01:10Pat Summitt has only been fired from his country all over the years.
00:01:30You are part of the being fast so many years later.
00:01:34Pat Summitt has only been fired from the east in the high-range city at Concern.
00:01:38Hey, good to see you.
00:01:41Good to see you.
00:01:42Are you all ready?
00:01:51I just have a paper.
00:01:53Get up on that.
00:01:55You're home.
00:01:56I'll have you, too.
00:02:02Pat, everybody wants to know, how you feeling?
00:02:03How you doing?
00:02:04Feeling great.
00:02:05Pat Summitt is a legendary college women's basketball coach.
00:02:09Now she faces the challenge of her life,
00:02:11a diagnosis of early onset dementia.
00:02:13The 59-year-old Summitt, who has led Tennessee
00:02:15to eight national titles, is planning for her 38th season.
00:02:20Why come back to coaching?
00:02:22I love it.
00:02:24You know, and I'm not ready to retire.
00:02:27Somebody kind of threw that out there today.
00:02:30I may be old as dirt when I'm still, you know,
00:02:33trying to win ball games.
00:02:35She told the newspaper,
00:02:37I feel better just knowing what I'm dealing with.
00:02:39And as far as I'm concerned,
00:02:40it's not going to keep me from living my life.
00:02:42There's not going to be any pity party,
00:02:44and I'll make sure of that.
00:02:47It's got to make you feel awful good,
00:02:49the way everybody's come out,
00:02:50tell you how proud they are of you
00:02:51for the way you've handled it.
00:02:52Well, growing up on a dairy farm,
00:02:55you know, I learned a lot of things.
00:02:58But my parents, they're just people that, you know,
00:03:03always did the right things, you know,
00:03:06and they have influenced me tremendously.
00:03:08music plays
00:03:54Welcome to Henrietta, home of Pat Head Summit.
00:04:01This is where we grew up.
00:04:03Okay.
00:04:03Yeah, but she wasn't born.
00:04:05She's about six when we moved this house, I think.
00:04:07But we live right next door to it in the log house.
00:04:10We tore down part of the log house.
00:04:12And that old barn there is where we used to play basketball.
00:04:17This is where my basketball career started.
00:04:21Hard to believe, isn't it?
00:04:23On the bottom floor is where we would feed our cows.
00:04:26And then on the top floor, my dad put up our basketball goal in the hayloft.
00:04:32My oldest brother Tommy and I would compete against Charles and Kenneth.
00:04:37We played practically every afternoon or night.
00:04:40If we got home from school, we'd play a little while before we milked.
00:04:43And then after we got through milking, we'd go play.
00:04:47Of course, I was a little bit taller than the rest of them, so we usually won.
00:04:51But I always let Pat sit outside and shoot set shots.
00:04:56Pat was as competitive as the rest of us, and she started playing on the eighth grade team as a
00:05:02fifth grader.
00:05:03We played basketball in elementary school.
00:05:07And when I got to school that fall, everybody was going,
00:05:10Oh man, Trish is coming. We're going to have a winning team this year.
00:05:14Trish is coming.
00:05:15I said, Trish who?
00:05:17And they said, Patricia Head, she's coming.
00:05:21The old saying about the Head clan was that if church doors were open, they were there.
00:05:26If school was open, they were there. Otherwise, they were working or sleeping.
00:05:32My mother just made me work all the time.
00:05:37That's why she's smart now.
00:05:39She had to work at home.
00:05:42Well, we all had to work, because we had a lot of work to get done.
00:05:46I mean, we had the crops and we milked cows.
00:05:53I think about friends I had. They went home and they might do things around the house and get their
00:05:59homework.
00:06:00You know, that was it.
00:06:02Whereas for me, I had to work a lot harder. I had a lot more responsibility.
00:06:07I got 160 something cows and 120 something pigs, plus some bulls.
00:06:20She knew how to call a milk cow. She don't know how to call a beef cow.
00:06:26You learn a lot on the farm.
00:06:28You got to put up with the weather, dry weather, the wet weather, and all.
00:06:35It's a hard life, but it's a good one.
00:06:41She'd drive a tractor, drive a truck from loading hay.
00:06:45Had one boy we got from West Tennessee, was up here and he was trying to put one on her,
00:06:50throw up a bale of hay.
00:06:51She got out of the truck and said, you want me to show you how to put it up there?
00:06:55Taking that thing, throw it right up on there.
00:06:58There was never any question about her dad's support and his love for her.
00:07:03It was shown it wasn't spoken.
00:07:07So that he moved the family across county line.
00:07:13When he found out that Montgomery County and Clarksville didn't have girls basketball in high school, but Cheatham County did.
00:07:22Neighbors thought I'd lost my mind because we had just built a new house out on the farm.
00:07:28But that was because she wanted to play ball and they didn't have one in Montgomery County at the time.
00:07:37So we moved over there and that's where we stayed.
00:07:41She got out of high school and of course she went to Martin.
00:07:49When I first went to Martin, I said, I came to sign up for the basketball team.
00:07:55I want to try out.
00:07:56They said, well, first you have to play volleyball.
00:07:59And I said, volleyball?
00:08:02I had never really played volleyball.
00:08:04And they said, yeah, we want all of our basketball players to play volleyball.
00:08:09And then you'll be in better shape when you get ready for basketball.
00:08:14Next thing I know, I'm playing.
00:08:16Did I want to play volleyball?
00:08:18No.
00:08:19But I did what they told me I was supposed to do.
00:08:26I think a lot of people would be surprised that you were a sorority girl.
00:08:29I was a sorority girl.
00:08:31I remember getting material and was talking about, you know, the Greek system.
00:08:37And I had no idea what that was.
00:08:39I said, I don't know Greek.
00:08:40I don't know what they're talking about.
00:08:45Going into college, I was not socially very comfortable.
00:08:50You know, I was country.
00:08:51I was limited as a kid growing up on it.
00:08:54And my wardrobe was very limited.
00:08:57It's one reason I'm very, I'm very close conscience now.
00:09:01I always say, if I ever get a good job, if I ever make money, I'm going to dress nice.
00:09:08You know, I really felt inferior there in a lot of ways, socially.
00:09:14And they were so friend and proper, and I loved it.
00:09:18And I don't want to say it scarred me, but it made a lasting impression.
00:09:22Because of that, I wanted to change.
00:09:27And that's one thing that I have appreciated about myself is my willingness to change.
00:09:40I'd always been accepted in athletics because I was an athlete, and I was good.
00:09:46Yeah.
00:09:50She got to start every ball game down there that she played in.
00:09:54And that was good.
00:09:56She likes to be a starter and a winner.
00:10:08When I was in school, played in Moscow in 73.
00:10:13It was called World University Games.
00:10:17I had a very positive experience.
00:10:21And then when I came back is when I had the knee injury.
00:10:25And that's really, you know, I think I found myself, you know, as an athlete and a competitor.
00:10:36I didn't know I was going to be a coach until I got a phone call suggesting that the University
00:10:42of Tennessee at Knoxville wanted to hire me as a graduate assistant.
00:10:46Why did they believe that a 22-year-old could build a program?
00:10:51Or did they just kind of say, well, we need somebody to do this and you're the closest one?
00:10:55Well, it wasn't like they were going to pay me big bucks.
00:10:57Right, right.
00:10:58Let's face it, Howard.
00:10:58I went there on a graduate assistantship.
00:11:02I was 22 years old.
00:11:03I had just graduated from UT Martin.
00:11:05They asked me to come be the assistant.
00:11:07A couple of weeks later, they called back and said, the head coach is taking a sabbatical.
00:11:12Will you take the head job?
00:11:14And I was scared.
00:11:16I'll be honest with you.
00:11:17I had no preparation.
00:11:19I'd never run a practice, never coached a day in my life.
00:11:27I remember the first game I coached.
00:11:29I talked to my little point guard Diane Brink.
00:11:32She looked up at me and she said, are you nervous?
00:11:38No, why am I acting like it?
00:11:40And she'd go, well, your neck's all broken.
00:11:45And it was.
00:11:46My neck would just break out for a day.
00:11:52It was probably the most challenging time of my life.
00:11:55I'm coaching the team.
00:11:56I'm teaching classes and training and trying to rehab my knee.
00:12:02When I went and played on the Pan Am team, I'd tell everyone I played end guard tackle.
00:12:07I sat on the end of the bench, guard the water bucket and tackled anyone that came in there,
00:12:11wasn't supposed to be there.
00:12:12Bill Wall, who was the executive director of USA Basketball, said,
00:12:17you're not going to make the Olympic team.
00:12:19And I said, yes, I will.
00:12:22The reality of it was I went in.
00:12:24I was overweight and out of shape, but I was on a mission.
00:12:31I was going to prove Bill Wall was wrong.
00:12:34And I lost 27 pounds in the next year and got my body in incredible shape.
00:12:42And I was really proud to come back and make the Olympic team and be selected by my peers as
00:12:49a co-captain.
00:12:56We're walking in the stands and you see all of these people.
00:13:00And this overwhelming feeling comes over you that, wow, you've made it.
00:13:06You've made it.
00:13:06You're one of the best in the country.
00:13:08And for us, it was even more special because it was the first time that women's basketball was in the
00:13:16Olympics.
00:13:19Pat was a hard worker.
00:13:21She wasn't the best player on the team, but she was a hard worker and she was a very physical
00:13:27player.
00:13:30Good score there by Pat Head, number 14.
00:13:35She played just about like she coaches.
00:13:37Same kind of intensity.
00:13:39A lot of people have the will to win, but what separates out of those that have the will to
00:13:44work.
00:13:45No one outworked her as a player and I don't think anyone ever outworks her as a coach.
00:13:51No one thought we would qualify.
00:13:53Julianne Simpson, Banner, breeze the block away.
00:13:57No one thought we'd be there.
00:13:59And we not only made it there, but obviously came home with a silver medal.
00:14:05That's a draw and the game's over and the United States has defeated Czechoslovakia.
00:14:11I'm sure if you never saw it before, you had no idea that women's basketball could be that exciting.
00:14:18That was the beginning of the notoriety of women's basketball.
00:14:25And I look at pictures of us sitting on the bench.
00:14:28Pat's right next to me.
00:14:29I look at us when we go on trips.
00:14:32Pat was sitting next to me on the bus.
00:14:35We went to Niagara Falls.
00:14:37Pat was with me, standing next to me.
00:14:40And I didn't know that Pat was a coach at the University of Tennessee.
00:14:46She was recruiting me and I didn't even know it.
00:14:55I transferred to Tennessee and it was probably one of the best decisions that I ever made in my life.
00:15:02When I was on the basketball court, I always felt that was my domain.
00:15:09My very first game at the University of Tennessee, we played Kentucky.
00:15:13I scored 51 points.
00:15:19But I didn't have one single black friend on that campus.
00:15:24I would go to class and most of the time I was the only minority in class.
00:15:29All of my friends were my teammates.
00:15:33And I had great teammates.
00:15:36I loved them all.
00:15:38But my teammates or Pat didn't know what I was going through.
00:15:45I don't think that Pat looked at her players as a black player or a white player.
00:15:52I think she looked at us as players, teammates.
00:15:56You know, we're a team.
00:16:01Coach Pat had record stands at the top nationally as the individuals have developed, as the program itself has grown.
00:16:09And so the lady balls have become a rich part of Tennessee's overall athletic tradition.
00:16:16In some ways, it seems like Tennessee was committed to building a good women's sports program.
00:16:22We are committed to a strong program of intercollegiate athletics for women at the University of Tennessee.
00:16:28But it wasn't like they were throwing resources at you guys.
00:16:32I mean, most of what's been accomplished here was accomplished with very little resources, right?
00:16:36I look forward to the day when you are proud of the lady balls just as you are of the
00:16:40total program offered by the University of Tennessee.
00:16:47I remember us having to sell donuts to buy uniforms.
00:16:53Early on, players provided their own shoes.
00:16:57That was a time in which I did not really have anyone with me at all that I could depend
00:17:03on all the time.
00:17:04So I just didn't say it.
00:17:07She knew things were starting to go in the right direction.
00:17:11Before Title IX, basically we had nothing.
00:17:15And those were very pivotal moments back in the 70s.
00:17:18The federal government today announced new guidelines for ending sex discrimination in college athletics.
00:17:23Today's rules do not mean the identical amount of money must be spent on men and women's athletic programs.
00:17:29It does mean athletic money must be spent more equitably.
00:17:37She was such a radical in one way, but on the other hand, how did she get things to happen?
00:17:43You can't be just a radical to get things to happen.
00:17:46You can just talk all you want.
00:17:47But how do you truly build something?
00:17:49Now we're talking Tennessee here, too. We're not talking California or some other place.
00:17:56And not only is she a radical in her own way because how she thought and wanted to change things
00:18:00for women, but she was so diplomatic at the same time.
00:18:05Some people might come crashing through the front door and demand, I want this.
00:18:10That's not my style. That's not how I deal with people.
00:18:13We hope you will buy your ticket and help us fill Stokely Athletic Center and support the Lady Vols.
00:18:22I think more than anything, I've tried to demonstrate through performance that we deserve to be considered for having the
00:18:31best program in the country and having the resources.
00:18:34A small but enthusiastic crowd welcomed the Lady Vols back to Knoxville.
00:18:39Signs of number three in the charts, number one in our hearts set the tone of the welcome.
00:18:44Appreciation of the Lady Vols efforts during the season and taking third place in the national tournament.
00:18:49We feel super. We played a good game yesterday and it's always good to come off with a win.
00:19:00Pat pushed you beyond your limits. And so at the time you hated it, but then you loved it when
00:19:08you saw the results.
00:19:12And it was so much fun.
00:19:21When Pat and I met, I was a bank examiner for the state of Tennessee and Pat's roommate had the
00:19:27idea to have a get together.
00:19:29We're in our leisure suits. The old polyester, wide collar, tie about as wide as, you know, your middle.
00:19:37And Pat comes bopping in in her Daisy Dukes and all tan from doing a camp in California.
00:19:46She told a joke or two and entertained and I was immediately interested.
00:19:52But, you know, us guys, we sort of convince ourselves first and then we have to convince the gal.
00:19:59Well, it took me three and a half years because we didn't get married till August 23rd of 1980.
00:20:15I am proud of Pat. I'm proud of the opportunity that she's had to accomplish these things.
00:20:21Of course, she is a competitor and very determined and sets her goals very high.
00:20:25It's been a good role model for a lot of women. And in a way, it's a lot of fun.
00:20:32My dad was very unique in that he was comfortable enough with himself as a male to go and support
00:20:40his more successful wife.
00:20:43Even though he's the president CEO of a bank, he's going to go and support and be in the front
00:20:49row and be there on everything and travel and do things that normally a wife would do.
00:20:55And if my mom came home and needed a vent, my dad would listen. If she came home and, you
00:21:01know, wanted to pick his brain, he would be the first one to offer his advice, which sometimes worked and
00:21:07sometimes didn't.
00:21:09Pat Head Summit is a winner. In four out of the last five years, her Tennessee women's team has made
00:21:15it to the final four. And now the chance to return to the Olympics once more as a coach.
00:21:22Well, I think that you could feel a lot of pressure if you really thought about it and thought about
00:21:27the magnitude of the Olympic Games.
00:21:30Your eyes are bright and blue, but I suspect there's a glitter of gold behind them. You really think it's
00:21:35possible?
00:21:35I think it's definitely possible. I think it's very realistic. And it's certainly a goal that this team has in
00:21:40their minds.
00:21:44There's immediate pressure. Like, immediate.
00:21:49When you're the Olympic coach, like, like, you can't fail. Like, it's, you can't fail.
00:21:58There was not a day that went by that I didn't think about the Olympics and my job and what
00:22:06I had to do. And so I felt tremendous pressure.
00:22:10I'm representing all women's basketball and this is a great compliment your peers can give you. You have to get
00:22:16the job done.
00:22:19Being an Olympic coach in 84, Pat really already knew that if you're going to compete at the highest level,
00:22:25you need to try to get the best you can and totally, you know, on board them to your, your
00:22:32philosophy, your team, and they got to go execute.
00:22:36The game is over. The United States women have won the gold medal. And now watch this.
00:22:48Stafford Summit gets arrived.
00:22:54It meant everything. After we won, I cried.
00:23:01It was just so amazing that she had accomplished that for all of us.
00:23:10It was perhaps the best ever U.S. women's team in Olympic competition. It was hard work. And I asked
00:23:15her yesterday, will she coach on the international level again?
00:23:20I'd say thank you, but no thanks. I think that being an Olympic coach is a once in a lifetime
00:23:25opportunity. And I certainly think it's something that must be passed around.
00:23:29I think we have a lot of outstanding coaches that deserve the same honor.
00:23:35That Olympic experience, it did kind of wear her out. And she admitted, you know, that she thought it hurt
00:23:41her program for a couple of years.
00:23:45Recruiting had dipped a little bit. And so she was just so focused on getting the very best players to
00:23:54bring home that national championship.
00:23:56You know, I don't think you're taking it to them. It's almost like you're trying to pass around their defense.
00:24:00Take it to them. You get the ball on the wing, make the penetration. You know, make somebody come up
00:24:06and play you. If they don't, then take your shot and put it inside.
00:24:11I was at Auburn at the time and Tennessee at the time, under their standards, they were a little down.
00:24:17They needed to rebuild their roster a little bit. And so Pat called and I said, well, I don't know,
00:24:24Pat, I'm happy here.
00:24:26Yeah, but would you just come up for an interview? Just come look and whatever. And I said, okay. So
00:24:31toward the end of the interview, she said, hey, do you really think you can get me the players to
00:24:37win a national championship?
00:24:39And I said, I know I can get you the players, but can you win it? And she went, uh,
00:24:47I like your confidence.
00:24:50I played for Pat. And then I got the opportunity to coach and just fell in love with it. I
00:24:56was coaching at the University of Nebraska and Pat called me and no disrespect from Nebraska. I love Nebraska.
00:25:04But she called and said, Holly, would I be interested in coming to back to work at Tennessee? I said,
00:25:12Pat, I can be there in 16 hours.
00:25:16We were a perfect threesome. We all brought different things to the table. Holly was the more lighthearted. Hey, everything's
00:25:24going to be all right. Everything's good. You know, and I was kind of maybe in the middle.
00:25:29And then Pat was at, no, we need to practice five hours instead of three.
00:25:37The first week I hired them and they were sharing an office next to mine and I had to be
00:25:41out of town and I got back and they had found this, this picture of me. I looked, it looked
00:25:46like a prom picture, it wasn't it?
00:25:48They had it blown up in frame.
00:25:50They had a bad sign to Mickey and Holly, keep up the great work, love, Pat.
00:25:56So I went back in the office, my first road trip I'd been gone, I got back. I walked in
00:26:01there and I laughed and we left it up there.
00:26:06Yeah.
00:26:08It's really fun.
00:26:09So they loosened you up?
00:26:10Oh, definitely.
00:26:11Yeah, definitely.
00:26:13Mickey, this is Tracy. Come here.
00:26:25We had such loyalty among the three of us and respect for each other and love for each other. I
00:26:33mean, we were like sisters.
00:26:37And I was competitive. I'm competitive by nature and Holly's very competitive by nature and so is Pat.
00:26:43We started out really well that first year and then we just built on it.
00:26:47And in 86, nobody was expecting us to do much and we got to the Final Four.
00:26:55It seems like every time Tennessee gets to a Final Four, you're always an underdog.
00:26:59For the University of Tennessee in her 13th season, Pat Summitt.
00:27:03Pat had gotten close to national championships several times but not really gotten there so she felt like there was
00:27:12a monkey on her back.
00:27:13I'm looking for what changed.
00:27:15There's no question in my mind that when we got a Bridget Gordon and a Melissa McCray in that retreating
00:27:21class and then Tanya Edwards who was MVP as a freshman.
00:27:25Now you're talking three athletes. You're talking quick. That was impact.
00:27:30Tennessee has won the national championship.
00:27:36Pat Summitt, she's been here eight times and she finally has the win.
00:27:49It was this group right here that actually got us over the hump, got the monkey off my back and
00:27:55brought all of you a national championship.
00:27:59In the past, she had put too much pressure on her kids. Like when they would get to the Final
00:28:04Four, they would get in a playoff situation. It was too serious.
00:28:13And so she would say, I want these kids loose. And so that kind of became a ritual for us
00:28:19that we would do something silly.
00:28:26And so Pat goes, if we win this, I'll get on a table and dance for y'all.
00:28:31Well, they'd never even seen Pat shake a muscle, you know. And I'm like, okay, I can't wait. Well, she
00:28:36wasn't a good dancer.
00:28:37It's all Tennessee. Final score.
00:28:41So Tennessee has won the women's national championship.
00:28:45I understand that we're going to have Pat Summitt dancing on the table tonight. That's what she promised.
00:28:50The kids were more excited about that than winning the championship.
00:29:07Pat loved family.
00:29:10Give her a kiss.
00:29:11Give her a kiss.
00:29:13Give her a kiss.
00:29:15Give her a kiss.
00:29:15Give her a kiss.
00:29:15Give her a kiss.
00:29:16Give her a kiss.
00:29:16Whether it was her blood family, whether it was her family of friends or her players, she was just always
00:29:25so dedicated to that.
00:29:34Pat and I both came from pretty big families, four in my case and five in hers. We knew we
00:29:41wanted to have children.
00:29:42A lot of women are going to relate to the number of times that you tried to have a child.
00:29:48Seven miscarriages. But got taller. That was the most important thing.
00:29:55She struggled so hard to have him. And of course, everybody knows the story about her being on the plane.
00:30:02You're underway to see a player where? In Pennsylvania, was it?
00:30:05I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm in Allentown.
00:30:06You're in Allentown.
00:30:07St. Michelle Marciniak.
00:30:08When we landed in Allentown, I said, Pat, what's wrong? She goes, I think my water broke.
00:30:14What does that mean?
00:30:16I said, that means Tyler's going to be born here sometime in the next few hours.
00:30:20Michelle and the daddy and the brother, they'd all gather around me and I said, now this is where we'll
00:30:24practice.
00:30:25I thought it was kind of weird because she was sitting on a towel at the end of the couch
00:30:28and she kept getting up to use the bathroom, getting up to go make a phone call.
00:30:33You know, and I was just like, gosh, is she always like this?
00:30:36Finally, she comes back in and she goes, DeMoss, we need to go.
00:30:41I said, okay. I said, let me, she goes, now.
00:30:47I mean, we were flying as fast as we could fly that plane.
00:30:51The first thing they tried to do is get me to land in Virginia.
00:30:54She looked at me with those blue, vicious eyes and said, Mickey, if you let those pilots land this plane
00:31:03anywhere but Knoxville, Tennessee, they're going to have a mad woman on their hands.
00:31:10We had lost to Virginia in the regional finals and there was no way I was going to land in
00:31:18the state of Virginia.
00:31:18And when she got off that airplane and got in that ambulance, I could, I can't even tell you the
00:31:25weight of the world just off of my shoulders.
00:31:33Lady Vol basketball coach Pat Summitt and her husband RB are the proud parents of Ross Tyler Summitt.
00:31:40The little guy will go by Tyler or just Ty.
00:31:43You see the Vols booties there.
00:31:46Coach Summitt says it's great being a mom.
00:31:50That was one of the most significant changes I saw in Pat was, you know, to really become a mother
00:31:55and to have such a jewel of a son as Tyler.
00:32:00And he immediately became part of the team.
00:32:02And today over at Thompson Bowling, Lady Vol head coach Pat Summitt was surprised to see her newest volunteer all
00:32:07decked out in a pint-sized team uniform.
00:32:10No, it wasn't for point guard Jody Adams, but for Coach Summitt's own Tyler Summitt.
00:32:16Tyler Summitt is as much a part of this team as Deidre Charles.
00:32:19In fact, Deidre says she has to kiss him on the forehead for luck before every game.
00:32:23And although this newest Summitt sometimes misses part of the action, he's a born basketball fan.
00:32:39Oh yeah, I got my mojo working, but it ain't working on you.
00:32:47Oh yeah, I got my mojo working on you.
00:32:54Okay, mojo.
00:32:55And I'm going to try it out on you.
00:32:59Oh yeah.
00:33:01Well, I tried in New York City.
00:33:05Oh, now I'm going to try it on you.
00:33:10Oh yeah, I'm working my way.
00:33:14It's a merry-go-round.
00:33:18Granddaddy's cow. Get it.
00:33:19You got it.
00:33:20Yeah.
00:33:21Pull it off.
00:33:29One, two, three, two, two.
00:33:36Pull it off.
00:33:38Pull it off.
00:33:39I better look.
00:33:40Pull it off.
00:33:43Pull it off.
00:33:43I better take.
00:33:45Take.
00:33:45Take.
00:33:47Go.
00:33:48You go.
00:33:57Tyler made all the difference in the world.
00:34:00And he traveled with her from the very beginning.
00:34:05He was with her everywhere.
00:34:07The girls would pass him around on the bus.
00:34:09He was a part of all their lives.
00:34:13Growing up, I'm told I was the good luck charm.
00:34:20Everybody knows the playing story.
00:34:22But they don't know that my mom had to play Virginia again in a national championship that next year.
00:34:29I'm sure she had some choice words when we did beat them.
00:34:34Here's the thing.
00:34:35She never forgot it, but the next year they won a national championship.
00:34:43The title goes to Knoxville again.
00:34:46She's been to the summit three times now.
00:34:49With baby in tow, she's a champion again.
00:34:51To be able to sustain that level of excellence, it's really difficult.
00:34:57From 91 to 95, we probably had the most talent that we've ever had assembled here.
00:35:06I mean, we were exciting, but we struggled with team chemistry.
00:35:14When you're trying to get to that level, the very best in the country, you've got to have that fortitude
00:35:22and that extra competitiveness.
00:35:26She's changed with the times.
00:35:28And so early, man, you just coached everybody the same.
00:35:33It's like tough and, you know, this, this, this, this.
00:35:37And then as the years progressed and she saw players that, you know, maybe I can't be as hard on
00:35:45this kid as I can this kid.
00:35:48And I think she evolved and understood that, you know, if I'm really going to get a lot out of
00:35:53these kids, I'm going to have to change my style up a little bit.
00:35:56Now, I'm sure to having Tyler helped that.
00:36:09You know, I learned a lot of what not to do.
00:36:14I think there were times I was really very fearful of my father.
00:36:17And I never wanted Tyler to be afraid of our vehicle.
00:36:23Good job.
00:36:26Good job.
00:36:27Good job, Tyler.
00:36:27It's a waterfall.
00:36:29It's a waterfall.
00:36:31Pat's growing up with mostly negative reinforcement.
00:36:35Because the time that Richard grew up was, you know, think about the depression and hard times and the war.
00:36:41And it makes you harsh and hardened in that you think that's the way to get things done.
00:36:49That's who you are.
00:36:51Dad, can you give me a mean look, a serious look?
00:36:55I didn't have glasses on there.
00:36:57Look at those blue eyes.
00:36:59That's where I got it.
00:37:00He's looking at me like he used to when I do something wrong.
00:37:03I didn't do anything wrong, did I, Daddy?
00:37:05It was always the boys.
00:37:15My 16th birthday party I missed because we had a forecast for rain.
00:37:20And I was going to meet up with all my classmates.
00:37:22And my dad goes, no.
00:37:24No, we have a thousand bales of straw on the ground.
00:37:27You're going to drive the tractor.
00:37:31I was like, Dad, it's a birthday party for me.
00:37:34You know?
00:37:35And he goes, I don't care whose birthday it is.
00:37:38He says, we cannot afford for the rain to come.
00:37:42Let's not have this done.
00:37:43I mean, I was so upset.
00:37:45Good job.
00:37:46Okay.
00:37:47Come all the way over here.
00:37:48Now, when he said no, did he look at you the way you look at your players when you say
00:37:53no?
00:37:53Exactly.
00:37:54Is that where that comes from?
00:37:55Is that, are those your father's eyes?
00:37:57No.
00:37:59We're going to work.
00:38:00I got a job to do.
00:38:02And I said, yes, sir.
00:38:05Having Tyler taught her a difference from the way she grew up.
00:38:10Tyler!
00:38:12Tyler!
00:38:14All right!
00:38:16All they heard growing up was, you didn't do this right, or that's wrong, or why can't
00:38:22you get here on time, or no, we're not going to celebrate your birthday because it's about
00:38:27to rain and we've got hay now.
00:38:28With Tyler, she learned that positive reinforcement can work.
00:38:34She's like, daddy, because I don't tell them all up.
00:38:37Because I wasn't told that.
00:38:39I knew that, but I wasn't told that.
00:38:42Yeah.
00:38:42And I think it's important to tell people how you feel.
00:38:45You're funny, Tyler.
00:38:51I'm more emotional, more in tune with people's feelings, and realizing every day I'm a teacher
00:38:58with him, it also emphasized to me every day I'm a teacher with our players.
00:39:07This is a story project.
00:39:09I always tell everybody that I'm from the hood, but nobody believes me.
00:39:14What's up, Shane?
00:39:16What's up, Shane?
00:39:17What's up, Shane?
00:39:17What's up, Shane?
00:39:17What's up, Shane?
00:39:17These are the guys who used to dunk on me when I was younger.
00:39:20They were trying to rough me up a little bit.
00:39:22And we wasn't treating her like no little girl, neither.
00:39:25Holds claw on the glass.
00:39:27Her shot goes, and she threw up the...
00:39:29Shemequa was the best player that we'd ever seen, really, at Tennessee at the time.
00:39:33She takes it to the high lane for a jumper.
00:39:35She nailed it.
00:39:37And Pat loved that ability, but she also loved the ability to help Shemequa off the court.
00:39:44And she was a mother figure to him.
00:39:52Her upbringing was a little unstable, and I think Pat gave her that stability.
00:39:58On the back floor.
00:39:59Lawrence?
00:40:00Yeah.
00:40:00Pat had a great relationship with Shemequa.
00:40:02She understood how hard she could push her.
00:40:05And she said, yes, I'm going to take care of Shemequa as a basketball player.
00:40:09But, man, I'm going to love her to death as a person.
00:40:12Go, Ty! Go, Ty!
00:40:14Throw her! Throw her!
00:40:14Shemequa was my buddy.
00:40:16And growing up, it was like I had a lot of big sisters.
00:40:20And the players were like family.
00:40:22And that's how my mom always made it.
00:40:29Each one of us needed something different.
00:40:32We were all coming from different places.
00:40:34And I think what Pat did so well is making sure that she knew what we needed.
00:40:39Although she might have been harder on some people, sometimes that's what they needed.
00:40:43Abby, come here.
00:40:45I'm very disappointed.
00:40:46I have worked three years with you, not to be in this type of one-on-one with you,
00:40:51but three years for you to buy into the system and lead our team in that direction.
00:40:56But when you can't lead by example, you can't lead.
00:40:59So, forget it.
00:41:01Oh, Abby, Abby, Abby.
00:41:03You know, Abby kind of thought she had options on the court.
00:41:06And Pat was like, no, you don't have an option.
00:41:07This is what you do.
00:41:09Come here!
00:41:10Deny one pass away!
00:41:12Abby, you're dropped back four feet off of 21!
00:41:17One day, we were watching film.
00:41:19And Stanford had beaten us.
00:41:20And Abby did not stick to our game plan.
00:41:23Pat said, Abby, were you not told to get up there and deny the ball?
00:41:28I am searching, Abby.
00:41:29I really am.
00:41:31Now, out of respect for me and our commitment to a system, why wouldn't you do it?
00:41:37Because she can't score.
00:41:39Boy, wrong answer.
00:41:41That was one of our keys to the game.
00:41:43Abby chose not to because she decided that wasn't good for the game.
00:41:46And we lose the game.
00:41:48Now, there's one thing.
00:41:49If you win the game and do that, we lost the game.
00:41:51Pat said, get in the coach's office right now.
00:41:55Pat looked at me and Holly.
00:41:56She goes, you two come in here with me.
00:41:59So we jump up.
00:42:00We go in there.
00:42:01And Pat had a cup of water in her hands.
00:42:04She goes, Abby Conklin, don't you ever, ever speak out like that in film again and tell
00:42:12me what you should have done and what we should have done.
00:42:16And Abby said, well, you know, but Pat got that water and reared back.
00:42:21And she does like this.
00:42:22I'm thinking, oh, my God, Pat's going to hit her.
00:42:24She's going to hit her.
00:42:25Well, at the last minute, she changed her mind and she threw it this way.
00:42:30Well, guess who it hit?
00:42:31Me and Holly.
00:42:33We got hit with the water.
00:42:36I'm like, Pat, I would have denied.
00:42:38I would have been up there denying Pat.
00:42:40What's the problem?
00:42:41Nothing.
00:42:43What you need to understand about a tough coach is,
00:42:45it's the buildup to get to that place where you could have that kind of connection with your player.
00:42:49It's what you don't see.
00:42:51It is the long hours and years.
00:42:54And then you've built up enough rapport with them.
00:42:57So if you have to blow your top off of something they're doing,
00:43:02that's a love language.
00:43:05Abigail, if you work like that every day, I would love coaching you.
00:43:09I'm working on it.
00:43:10Okay.
00:43:11That's my goal.
00:43:12All right.
00:43:16She's really good at meeting you where you are.
00:43:18And I guarantee you, every single player having been through that experience,
00:43:24it helps shape us into the people that we are today.
00:43:33Choosing to go to Tennessee was one of the tougher decisions I had to make.
00:43:36For a number of years growing up, I thought the only school that existed was Ole Miss,
00:43:41where my parents went, a lot of my family members went, my older brother Cooper went there.
00:43:46And then around my junior year in high school, I visited Knoxville.
00:43:50It was an ice storm.
00:43:52Didn't get to see the stadium.
00:43:54Didn't have a great view of campus.
00:43:57But I met a lot of great people.
00:43:58And that's why I ended up going to Tennessee.
00:44:01Here comes Peyton Manning, taking his entry as a quarterback for the University of Tennessee.
00:44:08Pat came and spoke to our team.
00:44:10And I remember leaving that meeting saying that Pat Summitt should chicken coach any team.
00:44:17So I was certainly aware of who Pat Summitt was and her basketball program,
00:44:23because they were dominant.
00:44:25Simply put, it doesn't get any better than this in college basketball.
00:44:29A sellout crowd here at Gamble Pavilion.
00:44:32You know, UConn kind of slowly came on the scene,
00:44:35but you kind of knew Connecticut was right on the cusp.
00:44:39Connecticut controlling the tip and the steal quickly by Latina Davis.
00:44:44A lot of people ask me about the UConn-Lady Ball rivalry,
00:44:49and in particular, Pat and Geno personally.
00:44:53Originally, it started off well to build women's sports.
00:44:58Elliott out front.
00:45:03They would have the opportunity to play on national TV,
00:45:06which back then was so unusual, and so Pat agreed.
00:45:10Again, Pat's going to agree on anything if it's going to put Tennessee out there
00:45:14and women's basketball out there.
00:45:16It's a 10-point lead for Connecticut.
00:45:19Rivalry brings focus.
00:45:22It just brings so much interest, not only to them and the rivalry, but to the sport.
00:45:27It gets people connected, and that's what you want.
00:45:31Connecticut have defeated the previously unbeaten Tennessee Lady Balls.
00:45:38We lost that first game, so that kind of started the ball rolling.
00:45:46Gino was a different kind of rival.
00:45:48Just that personality and that little edge he had and cockiness and...
00:45:54I don't know, Pat didn't really like that.
00:45:58People assumed that I should have a cordial relationship where you get together
00:46:05during the offseason.
00:46:07I don't want to.
00:46:10We don't talk.
00:46:11We speak before and after the games.
00:46:14That's it.
00:46:15But that's the relationship that Gino worked very hard to create.
00:46:19From the basket, 4-3 from the corner, no good.
00:46:24UConn has won the national championship!
00:46:30When we lost, it was like somebody hit Pat in the solar plexus.
00:46:35She just hated losing.
00:46:40We learned to learn from losses, and she always said,
00:46:43you learn more from a loss than you do a win.
00:46:45If someone came up and beat Tennessee,
00:46:49she was going to get a burning desire to up the ante.
00:46:52And that's what's great.
00:46:54You're not going to hate on that person or that program
00:46:57just because you're going to get better.
00:46:59Pat was like, we're not going to get beat the way we did again.
00:47:04So we did go back to work.
00:47:07Hello again, everyone.
00:47:08Alongside NeNe Crippen and Nancy Lieberman-Klein,
00:47:10I'm Robin Roberts.
00:47:11For the first time ever, a repeat.
00:47:13The same four Final Four teams, six national titles,
00:47:17and 21 Final Four appearances between them.
00:47:19Maybe in a short amount of time,
00:47:21it's turned into quite a rivalry with Tennessee.
00:47:23I think Gino Auriemma said it best
00:47:25at the press conference the other day.
00:47:26Winning the title last year meant a lot,
00:47:29but beating Tennessee was very rewarding.
00:47:32I guess he's using Tennessee as the benchmark for success.
00:47:37You've got a team.
00:47:39Fifty times a ticket.
00:47:41That's it.
00:47:43The Lady Balls have won the championship title game.
00:47:47Boy, did Pat Summitt look relieved or what?
00:47:49She's won over five in her ballgames,
00:47:50but this one has to be very sweet.
00:47:52For the second consecutive year,
00:47:53her Lady Balls are in the national title game.
00:48:04The tip controlled by Georgia.
00:48:06And Marciniak ahead of the field.
00:48:13Pat Summitt is three for three from downtown.
00:48:17The fans on their feet.
00:48:19And Tennessee has won the national championship.
00:48:24Pat Summitt wins the fourth of her sparkling career.
00:48:32I went over to give my mom and dad a hug.
00:48:35My dad was crying.
00:48:36And he goes, somebody knows how to coach.
00:48:40He goes, I don't know if it's Mickey or Holly,
00:48:43but somebody knows how to coach.
00:48:49What I'm known for is getting up on the ladder
00:48:52after a national championship
00:48:53and helping mom cut down the net.
00:48:59My mom and I did not rehearse this.
00:49:01She just said, hey, Tyman, get on the ladder.
00:49:04And so I started going up and she said,
00:49:06go all the way up.
00:49:08And so I get towards the top and I'm looking down.
00:49:10This is a little high.
00:49:11I don't love heights.
00:49:12And she's up there right next to me.
00:49:14She said, go one step higher.
00:49:15I'm like, no, it's too high.
00:49:17We have this whole argument at the top of the ladder
00:49:19about how high I'm going to go.
00:49:20And of course she won.
00:49:23But I remember that game.
00:49:25I remember the celebration.
00:49:26I remember everybody being so excited.
00:49:28and I thought, man, this is just the way it's going to be.
00:49:31At the end of the season, we're going to do this and celebrate.
00:49:33And so I thought that's how life was.
00:49:36You guys ready?
00:49:37Yes, I am.
00:49:40Let's go.
00:49:43You know, starting this meeting out,
00:49:45you realize that this is our beginning for a new season.
00:49:49Obviously this team will be different from any team we've ever coached
00:49:53because you're your own.
00:49:55You will become your own personality and your own style.
00:49:58But the first thing that comes to my mind is I want it to be a year
00:50:01in which we talk about being winners.
00:50:04And winners on the court, winners in the classroom.
00:50:08But basically that we all understand our staff, our players,
00:50:12that we're people that can be classified as winners first
00:50:16before we get to being athletes.
00:50:20I think I was optimistic going into the year.
00:50:25Actually, I felt great until Kelly tore her ACL.
00:50:29Telling what I couldn't tell the other day,
00:50:31that she's tore her injury, appreciate it, loved one.
00:50:35Kelly, you would not have to be around her five minutes
00:50:39to realize that she's a leader.
00:50:41And she's on the sidelines, which really hurt our leadership.
00:50:47Golly.
00:50:51Pat's going to die.
00:50:53We're bringing some bad news for Kelly and obviously for our team.
00:50:58Worst thing happened that we were hoping wouldn't happen,
00:51:01and that's it.
00:51:02She has a torn ACL.
00:51:04She's going to have to have surgery next Monday.
00:51:07I just wanted y'all to know that I'm going to put it behind me.
00:51:13I'm not going to have a little pity party anymore.
00:51:16That's it.
00:51:17Even if I'm not on the floor, I'll be right there with you.
00:51:24When Kelly went down, I knew right then we were in trouble.
00:51:43I'm going to have a laugh around me.
00:51:45Shameek was really down, she shook her head.
00:51:46She goes, Coach Summitt, I cannot wait until next year.
00:51:52You really know you're in trouble?
00:51:53Yes.
00:51:55A steal by Moshinguana.
00:51:58Penichero keeps it alive and comes away with it.
00:52:00The three.
00:52:03There were questions just going out and winning.
00:52:06And now, you know, they were going out and people were jumping on them
00:52:10and they weren't handling it very well.
00:52:12And now they play catch up.
00:52:14Final score, Old Dominion 83, Tennessee 72.
00:52:20Get your heads up.
00:52:22Listen up.
00:52:22Did we play hard?
00:52:23Yes.
00:52:24Well, if that's number two in the country and you fight like that every game,
00:52:28you haven't fought like that every game.
00:52:29If you play this way, I'm telling you right now,
00:52:32we're going to be there in March.
00:52:35When we came home from Old Dominion,
00:52:37R.D. said, you won't win 20 games.
00:52:39That's when I was like, oh, yes, we will.
00:52:46Everybody have a seat over there and we'll talk.
00:52:50I met the next day with the team.
00:52:54And we sat and we had about five-hour meetings
00:52:56and we just laid it out.
00:52:59I mean, everyone spoke their mind.
00:53:03They took ownership.
00:53:05And once you take ownership,
00:53:08you're going to feel responsible.
00:53:11Well, they committed for the first time.
00:53:12Oh, they committed.
00:53:18We beat Kentucky.
00:53:19We went on after that.
00:53:20We beat Purdue.
00:53:24Then, Vandy.
00:53:26So Conklin will put it up.
00:53:28And put it down.
00:53:32So now they're acting like a team that...
00:53:34Yeah, they're having fun.
00:53:36They're close.
00:53:36They're together.
00:53:37They all feel some responsibility.
00:53:39They got personality.
00:53:40Yeah.
00:53:40I'm enjoying them.
00:53:42Yeah.
00:53:42I like what I see.
00:53:45It is an atmosphere befitting a national championship.
00:53:50A sellout crowd, 16,359 here at Riverfront Coliseum
00:53:56to watch the NCAA women's title game.
00:53:59Tennessee has three good outside shoot-ins.
00:54:03Conklin has hit three threes.
00:54:07Backdoor holds court.
00:54:09Assist to Jollip.
00:54:12They can smell a second straight national title.
00:54:20Five seconds.
00:54:21Four seconds.
00:54:22Three.
00:54:23Back-to-back, mate.
00:54:24Tennessee dribbles out the clock.
00:54:26Two seconds.
00:54:27That's one second.
00:54:28And the Lady Volunteers of Tennessee have repeated his name.
00:54:37How you doing?
00:54:45Thanks.
00:54:47How y'all doing?
00:54:52Hey, Peyton.
00:54:53How you doing?
00:54:53Good to see you.
00:54:55Who's that?
00:54:55Peyton Manning.
00:54:56Oh, yeah.
00:54:56Our quarterback.
00:54:57He's my buddy.
00:54:58And you're standing on the street waiting there to congratulate you?
00:55:01Yeah, he's awesome.
00:55:01Yeah, how about that?
00:55:03Hey!
00:55:06Pat was great interacting with her fans, you know,
00:55:10people that love Tennessee, that loved her.
00:55:12She was the greatest Tennessee ambassador ever.
00:55:18All right.
00:55:20Coming in to visit the summits.
00:55:25This is our orange and white room.
00:55:27And over my 20-some-odd years, I've collected a variety of creatures and all of these that people
00:55:33make for me.
00:55:34If you really want to stay with the color, we got an orange pool table.
00:55:39Yes, there's our lady ball bathroom.
00:55:41You got your little hand towel here, and you have your sets over here.
00:55:47You got a little UT on the top here.
00:55:50You never get away from it, can you?
00:55:51You can't even go to the bathroom and get away from the lady balls.
00:55:56The University of Tennessee has been one of the best things that ever happened, the PATH Summit.
00:55:59I've been really blessed in a lot of ways to have family support and then to have career opportunities
00:56:05and then have the relationships with players and my staff over the years.
00:56:11And people that believe like I believe, you know, and you have to have that.
00:56:15I mean, you win with people.
00:56:16It doesn't matter how much you know, how much you learn along the way,
00:56:21unless you've got people that believe and are willing to work with you for goals
00:56:26that you set together and you achieve together.
00:56:29It doesn't happen.
00:56:30So it's the people in my life that have made so much difference for me.
00:56:35I don't know. Will I retire here? I have no idea.
00:56:38What else do you need in your life?
00:56:41What else do I need in my life?
00:56:42Yeah.
00:56:43Just more time.
00:56:45For?
00:56:47Well, like for Pat and family and friends that, you know, other than work.
00:56:53So wait a minute. Does that mean that you've accomplished everything that you want to accomplish in basketball?
00:56:57Oh, no. No, no. We're gonna win that championship now, John. You know that. I don't know when.
00:57:03But, um, definitely one more. Gotta get it. Gotta get it.
00:57:08Hope it happens here in the next few years so then maybe I can say, that's enough.
00:57:14But you know me, I'm allowed to say one more. Just one more.
00:57:20My dad sometimes was like, Pat, slow down. You know, you gotta slow down. I don't want you to burn
00:57:24out.
00:57:25You're going a million miles an hour. You know, it was wake up and go do a speech and then
00:57:29go to a fundraiser
00:57:30and then go talk to the boosters and go to practice and then come home and do recruiting calls.
00:57:34And it was this go, go, go lifestyle where my dad sometimes wanted her to say no.
00:57:39But I think a lot of what she did, she didn't do for herself. She didn't even do for her
00:57:43program.
00:57:44I think she knew what she was doing in helping women.
00:57:50I am delighted to be here. Why am I here?
00:57:53I'd like for every young lady that participates in high school sports to raise your hand and raise it high.
00:58:03You're the reason I came today.
00:58:07Pat was a visionary. So she always saw what was beyond basketball.
00:58:12And, you know, back then in the early or late 80s and really through the 90s, there was not a
00:58:20lot of money for professional women's basketball.
00:58:24So the women had to go out and make a living after graduating.
00:58:29And she did not want any of them to leave there without the tools to do that.
00:58:34I can tell you this. Every player that's played at the University of Tennessee for Pat's Summit for four years
00:58:39has a diploma.
00:58:41Those young women today are doing a lot of different things.
00:58:44I have one that's a doctor, one a physical therapist, an accountant.
00:58:48A lot of the young women that have played there that are teachers and coaches giving back to the game
00:58:54of basketball,
00:58:55giving to a lot of young women, a lot of young girls like you.
00:59:00Once I left the University of Tennessee, I still needed a couple of classes to finish up.
00:59:07Pat was calling me all the time. She said, you need to come back to summer school, finish up.
00:59:12I've never had a player not graduate so far. You're not going to be the first.
00:59:18Pat wanted us to be great people. She was a mentor on life. Not just my basketball coach, but somebody
00:59:28that helped shape my life.
00:59:30She really wanted her players to play professionally. She was getting ready for professional basketball.
00:59:37And that's why she was so tough on them, because she wanted them to have these opportunities, and she knew
00:59:41she hadn't had them.
00:59:42Pulse claw rebounds and throws the outlet to Catchings.
00:59:49One of the main reasons that I chose to go to University of Tennessee was because I knew I wanted
00:59:54to play for the best.
00:59:54Good. Rotate. Quickly. Get out. Fill a spot. Rotate.
00:59:57And I wanted to play with the best players.
01:00:00My freshman year was not only my freshman year, but it was also the first year for the WNBA.
01:00:08And immediately, that was my goal. From wanting to play in the NBA to wanting to play in the WNBA.
01:00:14Four years for them to get it right. Four years for me to work on my game.
01:00:18And who best to be at the home to help me than Coach Summit.
01:00:23Swashbuckling may have its three musketeers, but the Lady Volunteers have the three Meeks.
01:00:28Shemeika Holtzclaw, Tamika Catchings, and Samika Rambler.
01:00:32Together, the Meeks have scored nearly two-thirds of Tennessee's points.
01:00:36Combine those three.
01:00:38They make me look like I know exactly what I'm doing.
01:00:42This team is what I've worked 24 years for.
01:00:45They want to be really good. You know, they do. They aspire to be the best.
01:00:53Certainly when I was in college, I went to a lot of Lady Vols basketball games.
01:00:58We wanted to go see Shemeika, Tamika, Samika Randall. Those were the games we wanted to go see.
01:01:05They were dominant. They were the best team in the country.
01:01:07The first team ever to go 39-0. And they have won their third straight national championship.
01:01:19I'm five years old, we win a national championship. I'm six years old, we win a national championship.
01:01:23I'm seven years old, we win a national championship. I thought this is just the way life works.
01:01:30People don't understand how hard it is to win one championship, let alone back-to-back championship.
01:01:36And even more so, back-to-back-to-back championship is hard.
01:02:01In the years between the 1998 national championship and the 2007 national championship, not all the fans stayed happy.
01:02:11I remember, 04, 05, 06, I'm going to school and the radio's on and there's people calling in saying,
01:02:19maybe the game's passed Pat Summitt by, you know, maybe she's lost it, you know, maybe something's going on.
01:02:25And again, we're still making the Final Four, we're still winning SEC championships, we're still doing all this.
01:02:29But the standard of the fans was a national championship or nothing.
01:02:34The Connecticut Huskies, they did it!
01:02:38Those were some really tough, fractious times.
01:02:42Pat Summitt denied a seventh national title tonight.
01:02:47And then Candace Parker raised the level of the Lady Vols.
01:02:51Tennessee-bound Candace Parker leads Naperville Central against New Trier.
01:02:56Vicious block from Parker.
01:02:58Parker inside, makes it look easy.
01:03:01Candace was a player that could play the one and five positions.
01:03:04She could play all positions.
01:03:06And Pat had never had that type of player.
01:03:09Parker out, muscles, shoulder to the board.
01:03:12With a stoner riding the hip of Parker all the way down.
01:03:18Candace wanted to win just as much as Pat Summitt wanted to win.
01:03:21And I think Candace saw the results of what Pat got out of her.
01:03:26Parker, great pass.
01:03:29Parker, another good pass.
01:03:31Augusty got it in the five.
01:03:34Tennessee wins a national championship.
01:03:39Candace Parker and Pat Summitt were phenomenal in this game.
01:03:44It's tremendous because of what she brought to our basketball team here,
01:03:49the excitement she brought to the women's game,
01:03:52and the fact that in big games, that's when she played big.
01:03:56Spencer, lead pass. Parker again.
01:03:58Watch out!
01:03:59Ha-ha!
01:04:01Slam dunk!
01:04:04Did she dunk twice, two times?
01:04:06Twice at home.
01:04:06Mm-hmm.
01:04:07But she didn't dunk twice at UConn, though?
01:04:09No, once.
01:04:10Okay.
01:04:11Okay.
01:04:12Gino couldn't handle twice.
01:04:13Ha-ha!
01:04:16Parker was three to shoot.
01:04:1815-footer off balance.
01:04:20Brained it.
01:04:22Pat Summitt and Destiny have met seven times before,
01:04:26the second time in her brilliant career.
01:04:30Pat Summitt has led Tennessee to back-to-back national championship.
01:04:40All of us put our trust in Coach Summitt.
01:04:43You play for her because she's been such an inspiration,
01:04:47and just for the game of women's basketball, she's been there for the growth.
01:04:52I mean, I'm completely different than I was when I came in, and I feel like she's a real big
01:04:56part of that.
01:05:00I want to talk about your life in the last five years, because it ain't all been a bed of
01:05:06roses.
01:05:06And how you keep going.
01:05:11I was a sophomore in high school when my parents got divorced, and that was really weird,
01:05:19because up until that point there wasn't a lot of things that publicly had gone wrong for the Summitt family.
01:05:27The divorce was the first time when, you know, not everything was good to the public eye.
01:05:32And so I think it took a toll on mom.
01:05:35And really that whole time period, you know, with her dad passing away, the divorce,
01:05:42there were just things that started to happen where life wasn't, you know, super easy anymore.
01:05:50I'd had a, you know, a lot of personal struggles, and I think sometimes they happen for a reason.
01:05:56And you learn to fight through them and try to be a great role model for others.
01:06:02And that's exactly what I tried to do for our team.
01:06:06She knew other women would be watching how she handled this,
01:06:10and the world would be watching how she handled this.
01:06:13Do you think you needed the basketball in your life at that time to get you through that?
01:06:19I mean, did it give you a place to put your energy, your pain?
01:06:23Did it give you a way to repurpose all of what you were going through so you could make it
01:06:27through?
01:06:27Oh, absolutely.
01:06:28I mean, because I love what I do every day, and I'm around people that I enjoy,
01:06:33people that inspire me.
01:06:35In turn, I want to inspire them.
01:06:37Good, good, good.
01:06:38And it's not like a work day.
01:06:41It's like an opportunity every day to some way, somehow,
01:06:46help these young women to be the best they can be on the court, in the classroom, and in life.
01:06:54Is there anything about Pat Summitt that the avid Lady Vol fans would not know?
01:07:01I don't know. Probably how much I enjoy what I do, how much I love life.
01:07:08Wish that I was on a Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills.
01:07:15Pat was really fun to be around, and I think people who came to talk to Pat were like,
01:07:20whoa, this woman is, she's not, I kind of like her.
01:07:24You know, she's not this mean, I'm going to stare you down person.
01:07:28You know, Pat, Pat loved to have fun.
01:07:30Good old Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee.
01:07:40I would say probably two years before Pat got diagnosed,
01:07:45I just saw subtle things.
01:07:48Forgetting how to come home from the hairdresser.
01:07:53Speaking to a player and then kind of not remembering it.
01:07:59When I really saw something is when my mom would say, hey, when is practice?
01:08:04My mom never would ask, what time is practice?
01:08:07That was the one thing that was her favorite part of the day.
01:08:10She got to teach, and she'd say, wait, when's practice today?
01:08:14And I'm thinking, you know, it's at four, but why are you asking me that?
01:08:19I was working at Texas, and she called me and said, would you come back to Tennessee?
01:08:25She goes, I need you, I need you back here.
01:08:28I said, okay, I'm there.
01:08:34Finally, I convinced her to go to the Mayo Clinic.
01:08:39The doctor said, Coach Spinal Tap confirmed it, you have Alzheimer's.
01:08:46After the diagnosis, my mom really was asking God, why me?
01:08:53She was struggling with it.
01:08:58We finally decided she was going to keep coaching, and then we had to figure out, how do we tell
01:09:03people?
01:09:04A towering figure in college basketball is about to teach her players a brand-new lesson in grit.
01:09:10Pat Summitt has led women's basketball at the University of Tennessee for 38 of her 59 years, winning over 1
01:09:16,000 games.
01:09:17And she's determined to win even more.
01:09:19Despite the diagnosis, she just revealed early-onset dementia at only 59.
01:09:24You know, it's hard to fight an invisible opponent, and I think that now we know what we're up against,
01:09:31and we're ready to take the next chapter in our lives.
01:09:35We had all the players in our office, in our conference room, and she was a typical Pat, telling the
01:09:52kids what she had, and don't feel sorry for me.
01:09:59It's amazing when you're talking about your life and the direction it's going, and you divert it and say it's
01:10:06not about me.
01:10:07You know, the kids are crying, upset, and she goes, look, I'm fine.
01:10:11I'm going to get through this, we're going to get through this, and we're going to go on business as
01:10:15usual.
01:10:16Check out all this orange. Nearly half the students on campus are all wearing orange.
01:10:21That's for Pat Summitt!
01:10:23Yes!
01:10:25That's what I'm talking about, girl!
01:10:27Sports is me against you.
01:10:30And to see so many put on a shirt that says, We Back Pat, or talk in a press conference
01:10:35about Mom, they don't have to do that.
01:10:37You know, there's nothing making them do that.
01:10:39But I think it just shows the impact that Mom had.
01:10:44I love this Pat Head Summit.
01:10:46Like, I grew up in Knoxville, and I always watched her play, I always watched her coach, and she's just
01:10:51always been, like, inspirational to me.
01:10:59I remember, I'm like, what, what, like, what does that mean?
01:11:03Because you hear about Alzheimer's, but like, what is dementia?
01:11:08And she, you know, talked through it, but she's like, but Kat, don't worry, don't worry, we're going to fight
01:11:12this.
01:11:13Like, I'm not dying, like, we're going to fight this.
01:11:16And you believe it, because she's one of the strongest people you know in your life.
01:11:26We kind of move forward in life, a little different, but we got to keep moving forward.
01:11:33And that's what Pat wanted.
01:11:36We all just stay busy.
01:11:38And we did what we try to normally do with Pat Healthy.
01:11:44I think the first question everybody's asked me is, well, how's Pat doing?
01:11:49And I say she's fine.
01:11:51She's at every basketball practice.
01:11:53She's still our head coach and doing a heck of a job.
01:11:59She discussed it with us.
01:12:01This is, this is how we're going to handle it.
01:12:03This is how we're going to move forward.
01:12:06You know, we got to put on our game face.
01:12:08And that's what we did.
01:12:11You know, it's like that duck underneath your, your feet are paddling like crazy.
01:12:17Just tell me what to do.
01:12:18Rock on, sister, you're good.
01:12:20We weren't going to let Pat be in a, you know.
01:12:24I wasn't going to let Pat bearish herself.
01:12:26Just wasn't going to do it.
01:12:30I mean, all the years that, um, she led me to this point.
01:12:38There's no way I wasn't going to have her back.
01:12:40No way.
01:12:42So that was my job.
01:12:44That was my love for her and my friendship for her.
01:12:47Outside of coaching, outside of coaching.
01:12:49I didn't have to coach another day at the University of Tennessee.
01:12:53But I was going to make sure that Pat was getting taken care of.
01:12:55When she announced it, you know, I don't know.
01:13:00I had, I had mixed feelings about it.
01:13:02You know, I, I liked the fact that she announced it just to help other people.
01:13:07And I, and, and I knew that's why she was doing it.
01:13:11And then I knew that it was close to her having to retire.
01:13:21And a big announcement by a towering figure in sports.
01:13:24Pat Summitt is stepping down.
01:13:30I can tell you, I have loved my work at the University of Tennessee.
01:13:37It's been awesome.
01:13:38And I can say for almost for decades, it has been a privilege to make an impact on the lives
01:13:47of 161 women who have worn the orange.
01:13:53I am so proud of them, the Lady Vol student athletes, and an honor to see them graduate and become
01:14:03successful young women.
01:14:06Together with these young women, a great staff and a supportive administration, we will have taken a magnificent journey.
01:14:18We have grown the game of women's basketball each and every day.
01:14:25Holly, I want you to come up here.
01:14:27It is now time to turn over my whistle to you.
01:14:43I got drafted by the Indiana Fever, and when we were on our championship run, Pat came, and she was
01:14:51up in a suite across from the bench.
01:14:56There was a line from up there all the way down to the court, and she stayed and signed every
01:15:05single autograph.
01:15:08Talked to every single person, took a picture with every single person that wanted a picture.
01:15:14Despite everything else that was going on, that's just who she was.
01:15:22You could say, okay, how do you beat Pat Summitt's legacy as a coach?
01:15:26I don't know if you can't, you don't, but I think this is her greatest legacy.
01:15:30Getting out in front of this terrible disease, starting this foundation, and trying to help others.
01:15:38I am honored that the Southeastern Conference continues to support the work of the Pat Summitt Foundation and our fight
01:15:47against Alzheimer's.
01:15:50My mom did something different in that when she got that disease, she did not hide.
01:15:55She said, I'm going to be in the public eye.
01:15:57If I slip up and say something, that's okay.
01:16:00Mickey and Holly and I were more worried about my mom saying something wrong than my mom was.
01:16:04My mom didn't care.
01:16:07She wasn't going to be embarrassed because she knew that that's what she needed to do to help her family
01:16:11and help her program.
01:16:18Today, 13 Americans receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
01:16:24This was her ninth trip to the White House. This was the first one, though.
01:16:27It wasn't a team award. It was about her and that battle that she made so public a year ago
01:16:32as she fights against Alzheimer's.
01:16:36In 38 years at Tennessee, she racked up eight national championships, more than 1,000 wins.
01:16:43Understand this is more than any college coach, male or female.
01:16:47She's still getting up every day and doing what she does best, which is teaching.
01:16:51The players, she says, are my best medicine.
01:17:00We were giving her the Legacy Award at the US Open, and she wasn't 100%, and I could tell.
01:17:07But she says, you know, Billy, the most important thing to me is that every one of my players graduated.
01:17:16All right. Am I smart enough to be here?
01:17:19100% graduation. She said, that's my biggest accomplishment.
01:17:27Each month that went by, I could tell even the good days, she's not going to remember that.
01:17:34Our pastor in Knoxville said, you know, you're going to lose her twice, right?
01:17:40And it was something that really stood with me because he was right.
01:17:45You know, you lose them twice. You're going to lose them mentally and then lose them physically.
01:17:52I got to visit with Shamikwa, and she was sharing with me about kind of her last visit with Pat.
01:17:59And so they were talking, and they said that one of my commercials came on, and Pat said, that's my
01:18:10friend, you know.
01:18:11And so that was kind of hard to hear, you know, at the time, just thinking what she was going
01:18:20through and kind of feeling,
01:18:22but the fact that she kind of, that voice kind of, you know, stirred a memory in her mind.
01:18:29And so I'm glad to know that, you know, that Pat, you know, saw me as a friend.
01:18:35She was a great friend to me, and, you know, I miss her, miss her all the time.
01:18:43Sissy!
01:18:43Sissy, he's going to roll it.
01:18:45Sissy!
01:18:46Oh!
01:18:46There you go.
01:18:47My daughter is Patricia Lakeland.
01:18:50A lot of mom's friends and family, they were happy to know that there's another Patricia Summit somewhere in the
01:18:57world,
01:18:57and she's not going to know what that name means for a long time.
01:19:02Oh, you want me to do that?
01:19:03Here.
01:19:04But my wife, Brooke, and I said it was a no-brainer to name our daughter after mom.
01:19:14Every night, we'll lay down with our kids, we'll do prayers, but then we'll talk about some sort of life
01:19:20lesson.
01:19:20It could be something that happened that day, or it can be something we're just trying to reinforce.
01:19:25And I find myself over and over saying, Grammy taught me that.
01:19:41I hope that our kids remember my mom for who she was and what she stood for and what she
01:19:49was passionate about,
01:19:49which was people and relationships, and helping people be better than they even think they can be themselves.
01:19:57Tonight belongs to legendary basketball coach, Pat Summit.
01:20:03The best leaders in sports, leaders like Pat, are the ones who use their game to teach you something about
01:20:10life.
01:20:25I've always said you win in life with people, and I have been so blessed to have great people in
01:20:34my life.
01:20:35And I can tell you, tonight, I am deeply touched.
01:20:41As all of you heard my story, I'm going to keep on keeping on.
01:20:47I promise you that.
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