Pat Summitt: The Coach Who Refused to Lose
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Pat Summitt built a dynasty at the University of Tennessee one season at a time. Her players feared her stare as much as they trusted her guidance, and together they set a new standard for excellence in college basketball. Eight national championships and more than a thousand wins made her the most successful coach in NCAA history, but her greatest achievement was how she elevated the women who played for her. Our own Greg Hengler revisits the story of a coach whose toughness was matched only by her loyalty. From the early days of the Lady Vols to her final game on the sidelines, Pat Summitt’s legacy lives on in every athlete who learned that greatness begins with discipline and ends with heart.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:18.0 | the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:22.1 | Coming to you from the city where the west begins, Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:27.2 | Pat Summitt was a legendary women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, |
| 0:32.2 | and the winning as coach in NCAA history, known for her unparalleled success, fierce dedication to her players, |
| 0:41.4 | eight national championships, and for revolutionizing women's sports. Here to tell the story |
| 0:48.4 | is Greg Engler. Let's take a listen. You deserve it, so go get it. |
| 0:54.7 | That's what you got to think. |
| 0:55.7 | You've got to go get it. |
| 0:56.6 | You got to earn it. |
| 0:59.8 | They don't respect you. |
| 1:01.1 | They don't think you can play out there. |
| 1:03.0 | You've got to show some fires and panickedness. |
| 1:05.9 | I don't know about you, but I want to win a national championship. |
| 1:12.6 | Tennessee has won the national championship. The title goes to Knoxville again. |
| 1:18.6 | That's it. |
| 1:19.6 | Tennessee has won the national championship. |
| 1:23.6 | If they've done it, back-to-back championship, |
| 1:26.6 | the first team ever to go 39 and 0. |
| 1:33.2 | Can you say back-to-back, the Lady Falls, have won championship number eight in 08? |
| 1:43.2 | Pat took the game to the highest level that it's ever been. |
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