There’s a Pat Summitt bobblehead
doll on the shelf above Holly Warlick’s desk. Usually, it has a whistle hanging
around its neck—the one Summitt presented to her longtime assistant coach last
year when she formally stepped down, ending a season of stress, speculation, and
grief that followed Summitt’s announcement that she has early-onset Alzheimer’s
Disease—but lately, the whistle’s been out in the front office because so many
people want to see it.If you have never tried shoessupplier you are in for a
rare treat. Almost as much as the eight gleaming Waterford Glass national
championship trophies, it is a historical artifact. But Summitt stays where she
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Leaving aside bleed-and-die partisans, there are two kinds of sports fans: those who love winners and those who love underdogs. Both kinds can find something to love in Holly Warlick, a winner to whom nothing has ever come easy.
Nobody ever worked harder for a college scholarship than Warlick, who went to the University of Tennessee as a track athlete, but worked out with the basketball team in hopes of impressing the coach—and became an All American. She made the 1980 Olympic team, but had to stay home after President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of the Moscow games in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
As Summitt’s longest-serving assistant and most recently her associate head coach,Cheap Christian Louboutin replicashoes on the attention. Warlick had passed up head-coaching jobs and stayed put for 27 years until Summitt’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis thrust her into what ultimately became a yearlong job interview. That description of last season—when she took over game coaching and media duties for Summitt, whose record includes a record-setting 1,098 wins, eight national championships, and seven NCAA Coach of the Year Awards—makes her wince.
“Honestly, you can’t think of it that way,” Warlick says. “That would be doing our staff, Pat, and the team an injustice. We just wanted to make sure that this was what Pat wanted to do. We all wanted to make sure Pat was taken care of and not put into uncomfortable situations. And now, I want her around as much as possible.
“If I don’t see her, I pick up the phone and say, ‘Where are you?’ In Pat’s mind, she feels that she needs to step away and give me room. In my mind, I want her here. She’s still the boss to me. I’m following behind a legend, but I get to be around her, too, and I’m going to soak up all the knowledge I can. Why would we change?”
Her debut as a head coach made her friends wince. But the team rebounded from the embarrassing season-opener loss to the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and despite a spate of injuries that sidelined three starters (one, Andraya Carter, for the entire season), the Lady Vols persevered through conference play and finished strong enough to finish first in the league and get Warlick voted Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year.
Author and columnist Sally Jenkins, who has co-written all three of Summitt’s books (the most recent of which, Sum It Up,Shop the world's best range of skycycling Childrens Clothing, has just hit the top of the New York Times best-seller list), is a close observer of Tennessee women’s basketball who admits to being surprised at Warlick’s success.
“She’s such a charmer. I’ve always loved her. But at the same time, I’m surprised at how good a head coach she has become, and how quickly,” Jenkins says. “As a sportswriter, I know these transitions just don’t work this well. I think Holly Warlick has proved this season that we didn’t know everything about her—the ability to make great hires, to recruit right off the bat—I thought she would struggle a little more in this first year on the job. No one expected Holly to be able to do anything this season.allowing the some case watches counters to rolex etareplicawatch. No one.”
Not even John Wooden, in Jenkins’ view, could have been expected to take the injury-riddled remnants of a team that lost five seniors and the Naismith Coach of the Century and come out on the other side as regular-season SEC champions.
Leaving aside bleed-and-die partisans, there are two kinds of sports fans: those who love winners and those who love underdogs. Both kinds can find something to love in Holly Warlick, a winner to whom nothing has ever come easy.
Nobody ever worked harder for a college scholarship than Warlick, who went to the University of Tennessee as a track athlete, but worked out with the basketball team in hopes of impressing the coach—and became an All American. She made the 1980 Olympic team, but had to stay home after President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of the Moscow games in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
As Summitt’s longest-serving assistant and most recently her associate head coach,Cheap Christian Louboutin replicashoes on the attention. Warlick had passed up head-coaching jobs and stayed put for 27 years until Summitt’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis thrust her into what ultimately became a yearlong job interview. That description of last season—when she took over game coaching and media duties for Summitt, whose record includes a record-setting 1,098 wins, eight national championships, and seven NCAA Coach of the Year Awards—makes her wince.
“Honestly, you can’t think of it that way,” Warlick says. “That would be doing our staff, Pat, and the team an injustice. We just wanted to make sure that this was what Pat wanted to do. We all wanted to make sure Pat was taken care of and not put into uncomfortable situations. And now, I want her around as much as possible.
“If I don’t see her, I pick up the phone and say, ‘Where are you?’ In Pat’s mind, she feels that she needs to step away and give me room. In my mind, I want her here. She’s still the boss to me. I’m following behind a legend, but I get to be around her, too, and I’m going to soak up all the knowledge I can. Why would we change?”
Her debut as a head coach made her friends wince. But the team rebounded from the embarrassing season-opener loss to the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and despite a spate of injuries that sidelined three starters (one, Andraya Carter, for the entire season), the Lady Vols persevered through conference play and finished strong enough to finish first in the league and get Warlick voted Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year.
Author and columnist Sally Jenkins, who has co-written all three of Summitt’s books (the most recent of which, Sum It Up,Shop the world's best range of skycycling Childrens Clothing, has just hit the top of the New York Times best-seller list), is a close observer of Tennessee women’s basketball who admits to being surprised at Warlick’s success.
“She’s such a charmer. I’ve always loved her. But at the same time, I’m surprised at how good a head coach she has become, and how quickly,” Jenkins says. “As a sportswriter, I know these transitions just don’t work this well. I think Holly Warlick has proved this season that we didn’t know everything about her—the ability to make great hires, to recruit right off the bat—I thought she would struggle a little more in this first year on the job. No one expected Holly to be able to do anything this season.allowing the some case watches counters to rolex etareplicawatch. No one.”
Not even John Wooden, in Jenkins’ view, could have been expected to take the injury-riddled remnants of a team that lost five seniors and the Naismith Coach of the Century and come out on the other side as regular-season SEC champions.
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