Longtime Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt will be honored with a stamp next year, the U.S. Postal Service announced today.
Pat Summitt, who died in 2016 at age 64, led Tennessee to eight NCAA championships and compiled a career record of 1,098-208 from 1974-2012. Her stamp features an oil-on-primed-linen portrait created by Roberto Parada. It was designed by Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS.
When Summitt was a graduate student coaching the women's basketball team, she drove the team in her own car, after they sold donuts on campus to buy uniforms. Charlotte was in graduate school at Tennessee at the time and remembers the fundraisers. Still much lower than men on the sports hierarchy, women's sports have come a long way since then. You know, EVERYONE LOVES WOMEN'S SPORTS.
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