How Pat Summitt inspired a writer who wasn't alive for most of her legendary career

Posted Jun 28, 2026
I was born in the fall of 1998, so I missed a lot of Pat Summitt’s legendary coaching career by virtue of not being alive yet. It’s something I often wonder about as the Lady Volunteers writer now for Knox News. What would it have been like if I had been born three decades earlier and gotten to cover the height of Summitt’s Tennessee basketball dynasty? (MSN.com)

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