 Tennessee
Wesleyan College will award an honorary
doctorate of education to Coach Pat Summitt
during the annual Commencement ceremony
Saturday, May 10, 2008, beginning at 9 a.m. in
the Nocatula Garden. Summitt will also be the
keynote speaker for the event honoring TWC’s
Class of 2008.
As a college basketball coach, Pat Head Summitt
has won more games than any other coach (men’s
or women’s) in NCAA basketball history,
finishing the 2007-08 season with 983 victories.
Her University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers just
completed a successful defense of their 2007
NCAA national championship, picking up number
eight in 2008.
During her tenure, the Lady Vols have earned 27
Southeastern Conference tournament and regular
season championships, including a perfect 39-0
season in 1997-98. Her teams have made an
unprecedented 27 consecutive appearances in the
NCAA Sweet 16 and produced 12 Olympians, 19
Kodak All Americans and more than 70
All-Conference performers.
Through the years, Summitt has reached numerous
goals and worn many hats at the University of
Tennessee as a student, an educator and a coach.
She’ll be the first to tell you that her success
is due to the players who have represented the
university since she became head coach as a
22-year-old in 1974. Incredibly, every Lady Vol
player since 1976 has played in at least one
Final Four during her career at Tennessee. There
have been three classes of players in school
history to go to the Final Four all four years
of their UT tenure.
She was named Naismith Coach of the Century in
2000 and became the first female recipient of
the John Wooden Legends of Coaching Lifetime
Achievement Award this year. Among her many
achievements, she has graced the cover of
Sports Illustrated, authored several
best-selling books, served as a WNBA consultant
and is an Olympic gold medalist.
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