I believe this will be good for the organization. Coach Stanley was
here last year and therefore understands whatz already here on the
team.
I just hope she and Pat don't butt heads about what the team needs
are. I am looking forward to the season.

By the way, I am new to the group but have been a Mystics follower
since there enseption.

Shabba

--- In themysticsfansarethebest@y..., boricua1963 <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> On April 4th, 2002, President of Washington Sports and
Entertainment
> Susan O'Malley appointed Pat Summitt to serve as player personnel
> consultant for the Washington Mystics. As the Mystics consultant,
> Summitt will be responsible for evaluating the team, developing the
> Mystics player talent, representing the team during the WNBA Draft
> and advising on all player personnel matters such as trades and
> waivers.
>
> Summitt brings to the Mystics 28 years of collegiate and
> international coaching experience, a winning record that ranks her
> sixth amongst active NCAA coaches and a prestigious list of
accolades
> that includes induction to both the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
> and the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
>
> Head coach of the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols women's
> basketball team since she began her coaching career at the age of
22,
> Summitt joins the Mystics basketball operations staff after leading
> the Lady Vols to a 29-5 season in 2002, the Southeastern Conference
> (SEC) semi-final game (Tennessee lost to LSU 81-80) and the
school's
> 13th NCAA Women's Final Four appearance (an NCAA record).
Tennessee's
> winning season pushed Summitt ever closer to another milestone in
her
> career, 800 wins. At 789 career collegiate victories (tied with
Judy
> Conradt for the winningest coach in the women's game) and just 158
> losses in 28 years (.833), she is truly in an elite class of
coaches.
>
> Some of Summitt's victories include 21 SEC tournament and regular
> season championships and six NCAA titles (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996,
> 1997 and 1998); her teams have played in and recorded the most NCAA
> tournament victories in history. Summitt's record of six NCAA
> Championships is second only to UCLA's John Wooden who captured 10
> during his career. Her last three championships were the first back-
> to-back-to-back victories in women's NCAA history and featured the
> play of Olympic gold medalist, three-time WNBA All-Star and Mystics
> forward Chamique Holdsclaw.
>
> Summitt's success has spanned over nearly three decades. She
started
> coaching in 1974 and since then has packed her legendary career
with
> an unparalleled number of accomplishments. Shortly after graduating
> from the University of Tennessee-Martin where, as a junior, she
> played on her first U.S. national team, Summitt accepted a graduate
> teaching assistantship and the head coaching position at the
> University of Tennessee-Knoxville, beginning the legendary marriage
> between coach and team. In 1976, while continuing to coach the Lady
> Vols, she capped off her playing career by making the U.S. Olympic
> Team and helping that team capture a silver medal at the Montreal
> Games.
>
> Summitt expanded her international experience in the game of
> basketball when, just a year after having competed as a player in
the
> Olympics, she was given head coaching duties of the U.S. Junior
> National team in 1977, also the first year the Lady Vols reached
the
> NCAA Final Four with a 28-5 overall record. Summitt also served as
> head coach for the U.S. National Team; leading both squads to many
> gold medal victories. In 1984, she lead the U.S. Olympic Team to
its
> first women's basketball gold medal in her home country during the
> Los Angeles Summer Games.
>
> In the years that Summitt has accumulated the numerous wins,
regular
> season titles, conference titles, NCAA championships, international
> and Olympic medals, she can additionally boast to having developed
> and coached an outstanding crop of women athletes. She has guided
11
> U.S. Olympians, 16 Kodak All-Americans, over 45 international
players
> and 25 professional players serving in the ABL, WNBA and
> international teams.
>
> Complementing her induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of
Fame
> in 1999, she became just the fourth women's basketball coach to be
> inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in
2000.
> In 1990, she became the first woman to receive the Hall of Fame's
> most prestigious honor, the John Bunn Award. Summitt was also named
> Naismith College Coach of the year in 1987, 1989, 1994 and 1998 and
> Naismith College Coach of the Century in 2000. She was the
> WBCA/Converse Coach of the year in 1983 and 1995 and the IKON/WBCA
> Coach of the Year in 1998.
>
> Summitt's off the court life is just as full as her time in the
gym.
> She is devoted to a number of community organizations and causes
> including the United Way, the Race for the Cure, Saint Jude's
> Children's Hospital, the Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Center and
> Habitat for Humanity. She has been recognized as one of the
> WISE "1999 Women of the Year," the 1999 ARETE Award for Sports, as
> one of Glamour Magazine's "1998 Women of the Year" and the city of
> Knoxville's "1999 Woman of the Year." Summitt has served as a vice
> president of USA Basketball and an Olympic representative on the
> Advisory Committee to USA Basketball. She currently holds the
> position of Associate Athletics Director at the University of
> Tennessee and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Women's
> Basketball Hall of Fame.
>
> Summitt, a native of Henrietta, Tenn., also devotes time to her 11-
> year-old son Tyler and her husband R.B., making their home on the
> banks of the Tennessee River.