Pat Summitt, which was selected for the prestigious Wecoach Lifetime Achievement Award

Knoxville, Tenn.-The legendary women’s basketball coach of the University of Tennessee, Pat Sumitt, has been appointed one by five recipients of the Wecoach Lifetime Achievement Award 2024-25.

The award recognizes women in sport who have success and at the same time demonstrate an obligation to strengthen younger generations.

“The Lifetime Achievement Award honors those who have not only emerged in their field, but also have paved the way for future generations of managers,” said Vanessa Fuchs, CEO from Wecoach. “This year’s winners are real pioneers – individual, whose lawyers for women in coaching have broken barriers, has records and have created permanent changes. Your unshakable commitment to excellence, authorization and inclusion is a beacon of the inspiration that you continue to build.

Sum, which died in 2016, led the Lady Vols for 38 years – with 1,098 career winners and eight NCAA championships. Her teams made 31 consecutive NCAA tournament and won 32 combined SEC season and tournament titles.

Under Sumple’s instructions, Tennessee produced 14 members of the Olympia team members and 34 WNBA players. She included a 100% final rate for players who made their justification.

“As a trainer, mentor, mother figure, ambassador, trail blazer and model, Pat Sumb was a lively torchbore,” said Tennessee Athletics. “You are a light that cannot be deleted either.”

Sumple’s large list of the awards includes the Naismith women -Collegiate trainer of the century for the 1900s and the national coach of the year eight times. She was included in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Basketball Hall of Fame of women.

After its diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease from 2011, the Pat Summitt Foundation set up the PAT Summitt Foundation in order to raise awareness of the disease. She received the presidential medal of President Barack Obama and Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

Other recipients of this year’s award are Jan Hutchinson, Carmen Jackson, Dr. Ann Lebedeff and Tara Vanderveer.