Pat Summitt has been gone for a year. But the decades of hard work she spent trying to promote women’s basketball impacted the whole sports world.
And it’s unfortunate the Lady Vols coaching legend wasn’t there to see how those effects played out in the past year.
Let’s go with an obvious one first. Candace Parker, one of Summitt’s greatest players, won her first WNBA championship.
As one of the stars of women’s basketball, she still can’t stop mentioning Summitt whenever she gets the chance, evidenced by her first comments in her postgame interview after capturing the title.