Pat Summitt became head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in nineteen seventy-four.
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She's a retired Navy captain and a fellow at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the Universityof Tennessee-Knoxville, joins us by phone from her home in Knoxville.
Plaques were awarded to Arizona State University's number 2 team, from Tempe, and the number 2 team from the Universityof Tennessee at Knoxville, the second- and third-place college teams.
She and her father -- who sustained serious injuries including back injuries, broken ribs and a collapsed lung -- were flown to the Universityof Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.