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Lady Vols head coach Pat Summitt has not only produced a number of outstanding players during her 32 years at the helm of the Tennessee program, but a number of successful coaches as well. Currently, the list of coaches at the professional, collegiate and high school levels stands at 59 and represents 39 former players, 13 former graduate assistants, five assistant coaches and two managers, who now are serving or have served in the coaching ranks.
P — player; GA — graduate assistant; A — assistant; M — manager
Professional ranks (name, pos/yrs at UT, current/last position)
Nancy Darsch A/GA, 1978-85, assistant at Minnesota Lynx (WNBA); former head at Washington Mystics (WNBA); former head New York Liberty (WNBA) * Tanya Haave, P, 1980-84, former head at "Satila" Skene, Sweden * Lisa Harrison, P, 1989-93, former assistant at Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) * Carolyn Peck, A, 1993-95, former head at Orlando Miracle (WNBA) * Trish Roberts, P, 1976-77, former head at Atlanta Glory (ABL) v Heidi VanDerveer, GA, 1986-88, former assistant at Minnesota Lynx (WNBA); former head at Sacramento Monarchs (WNBA).
College ranks (name, pos/yrs at UT, current/last position)
Jody Adams, P, 1989-93, associate at Southern Illinois * Jane Albright, GA, 1981-83, head at Wichita State; former head at Wisconsin * Kathy Allen, GA, 2002-04, assistant at UAB * Debbie Ayres, GA, 1989-90, assistant at Stony Brook * Al Brown, A, 1991-02, assistant at Michigan State * Greg Brown, GA, 2002-03, former assistant at Tennessee * Niya Butts, P, 1996-2000, assistant at Kentucky * Nikki Caldwell, P, 1990-94, assistant at Tennessee * Daedra Charles, P, 1989-91, assistant at Auburn; former assistant at Detroit * Shelia Collins, P, 1981-85, former head at West Georgia * Abby Conklin, P, 1993-97, assistant at San Francisco; former assistant at UNC Asheville * Kelli Casteel Cook, P, 1988-92, former head at Maryville (Tennessee) * Tony Cross, GA, 1983-84), head at Belmont * Nancy Darsch, A/GA, 1978-85, former head at Ohio State * Mickie DeMoss, A, 1985-2003, head at Kentucky * Rochone Dilligard, P, 1991-94, former assistant at Austin Peay * Tonya Edwards, P, 1986-90, assistant at Detroit * Kyra Elzy, P, 1996-2001, assistant at Kansas * Sharon Fanning, GA, 1975-76, head at Mississippi State * Sheila Frost, P, 1985-89, former assistant at Richmond * Bridgette Gordon, P, 1985-89, former assistant at Stetson * Tanya Haave, P, 1980-84, head at San Francisco; former assistant at Denver * Sylvia Hatchell, GA, 1974-75, head at North Carolina * Cindy Noble Hauserman, P, 1978-81, retired head at Centre * Dena Head, P, 1988-92, assistant at Central Connecticut State * Lea Henry Manning, P, 1979-83, head at Georgia State * Marlene Jeter, P, 1990-92, former head at Clinton J.C. (S.C.) * Bernitha Johnson, M, 2003-05, assistant at Binghamton * Dana Johnson, P, 1991-95, former assistant at Morgan State * Kellie Jolly Harper, P, 1995-99, head at Western Carolina * Nancy Bowman Ladd, P, 1973-75, retired head at Sewanee * Angela Lawson, GA, 1989-91, head at Incarnate Word * Cheryl Littlejohn, P, 1983-87, former head at Chicago State; former head at Minnesota * Michelle Marciniak, P, 1993-96, assistant at South Carolina * Calamity McEntire, M, 2002-03, assistant at San Diego State * Carla McGhee, P, 1986-90, former assistant at Auburn; former assistant at Temple * Matthew Mitchell, GA, 1999-2000, head at Morehead State; former assistant at Kentucky * Zandra Montgomery Morris, P, 1977-79, former assistant at Lee * Mary Ostrowski, P, 1980-84, former assistant at Ohio State * Carolyn Peck, A, 1993-95, head at Florida * Shalon Pillow, P, 1998-2002, director of basketball operations at South Florida * Semeka Randall, P, 1997-2001, assistant at Michigan State * Trish Roberts, P, 1976-77, former head at Stony Brook; former head at Michigan * Joy Scruggs, P, 1972-75, head at Emory and Henry * Judy Southard, GA, 1977-78, retired head at Marshall * Pam Tanner, GA/A, 1990-93, head at Denver * Heidi VanDerveer, GA, 1986-88, former head at Eastern Washington * Holly Warlick, P, 1976-80, assistant at Tennessee.
High school ranks (name, pos/yrs at UT, current/last position)
Janet Allmon, GA, 1983-84, former head at Baldwin (Ga.) * Debbie Ayres, GA, 1989-90, former head at California School for the Deaf * Diane Brady, P, 1974-75, former head at McMinn Co. (Tenn.) n Cindy Brogdon, P, 1977-79, former head at Centennial (Ga.); facilities Coordinator at Northview (Ga.) * Abby Conklin, P, 1993-97, former head at Trinity (Ill.) * Debbie Groover Buckner, P, 1977-81, assistant at Woodstock (Ga.) * Shelley Sexton Collier, P, 1983-87, head at Webb (Tenn.) * Karla Horton Douglas, P, 1984-87, assistant at Webb (Tenn.) * Rochone Dilligard, P, 1991-94, head at Lebanon (Tenn.) * Tonya Edwards, P, 1986-90, former head at Northwestern (Mich.) * Sheila Frost, P, 1985-89, head at Garrison Forest (Md.) * Cindy Noble Hauserman, P, 1978-81, former head at Chillicothe (Ohio) * Marlene Jeter, P, 1990-92, assistant at Victory Christian Center (N.C.) * Dana Johnson, P, 1991-95, assistant at Western High (Md.) * Dawn Marsh, P, 1984-88, former head at Duluth (Ga.) * Zandra Montgomery Morris, P, 1977-79, former head at Cleveland (Tenn.) boys’ team * Jill Rankin Schneider, P, 1979-80, head at Monterey (Tex.) * Suzanne Barbre Singleton, P, 1974-78, former head at Maryville (Tenn.) * Tiffany Woosley, P, 1991-95, former head at Lincoln County (Tenn.).
Thinking outside the box
Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer was reluctant to accept her first full-time coaching job at Iowa because, well, she was afraid to be
paid for it. Stringer was paid for teaching at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, where she also coached the women’s basketball team. But when Iowa pursued her just to coach, well... "I was afraid to go to Iowa because I thought there was something wrong about being paid to do something you really liked. You become a teacher not to get rich but to help young people. If you understand that, you also understand that to coach and get paid for it seems like cheating."Stringer was having so much "fun" coaching in fact that she began to wonder if she knew what real hard work was. So while she was at Cheyney, she applied to work in a box factory. "My father was a coal miner, and he would go underground and I’d see him come back with his clothes wet and damp with sweat and the soot all over. He worked so hard to provide for us, and here I am teaching and coaching young people, things that I love to do — and being paid for it," Stringer said.
The box factory manager didn’t think she’d last a week.
"But I explained to him that I
had to have this job," Stringer said. "But let me tell you, I’ve never been so bored. And yeah, the dust got in my throat and my fingers were cut, and I thought, you know what? These people deserve a lot more money than what I’m making. I would gladly take their pay and they take mine, because it hurt me to work there when you didn’t think, you just did."Now Stringer is back to thinking — and coaching — outside the box.
Title what?
Jody Conradt, who was in on the ground floor of Title IX, recently experienced a good indication of how much impact the law has had on women’s sports.
Some people are forgetting about it in fact, albeit in a good way.
The longtime Texas coach was participating in a media call with other in-state coaches, and some of the questions led to a discussion of Title IX. To Conradt’s surprise, some of the younger coaches said they knew nothing about the law’s history.
"Isn’t it wonderful," Conradt said, "that we would get to a point where no one has to explain and defend Title IX?
"If you’ve been in this profession for any length of time, you understand that Title IX is something we’ve had to literally fight for and try to protect in so many ways. It’s not just this group of coaches, but hundreds of people who in their own environment and in their own way tried to make sure that young people who were passionate about basketball had the opportunity to pursue that passion."
All-time winningest coaches
(*Active; otherwise retired from college listed)
1. Pat Summitt*, Tennessee (W) 913
2. Jody Conradt*, Texas (W) 882
3. Dean Smith, North Carolina (M) 879
4. Adolph Rupp, Kentucky (M) 876
5. Bob Knight*, Texas Tech (M) 869
6. Don Meyer*, Northern St. (M) 841
7. Jim Phelan, Mt. St. Mary’s (M) 830
8. Clarence Gaines, Winston-Salem (M) 828
9. Jerry Johnson, LeMoyne-Owen (M) 821
10. Herb Magee*, Philadelphia U. (M) 813
11. Eddie Sutton, Oklahoma St. (M) 798
12. Lefty Driesell, Georgia St. (M) 786
13. Lou Henson, New Mexico St. (M) 779
14. Henry Iba, Oklahoma St. (M) 764
15. Lute Olson*, Arizona (M) 760
16. Ed Diddle, Western Ky. (M) 759
17. Mike Krzyzewski*, Duke (M) 753
18. Vivian Stringer*, Rutgers (W) 750
19. Phog Allen, Kansas (M) 746
20. John Chaney, Temple (M) 741
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