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'It wasn't a team. It was a tent revival.'So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented'three-peat'of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and seasoned stars produced a standard of play that would change the game of women's basketball forever.The 1997-98 season started innocently enough. One Saturday in August, four young freshmen--Semeka Randall, Tamika Catchings, Ace Clement and Teresa Geter--arrived on the Tennessee campus to begin their college careers. Welcoming them were a number of players from the previous year, including Chamique Holdsclaw and Kellie Jolly. But that night, in a sign of things to come, a simple pickup game turned into an amazing display of basketball brilliance--freshmen against established players, and with barely a shot missed by either side. Suddenly Pat Summitt glimpsed the future: fast, aggressive and hugely talented. This might be the team she'd worked her whole career to coach.As the season got under way, other dramas unfolded. After one emotional team meeting, Summitt r
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- Author
- Summitt, Pat Head, 1952-; Jenkins, Sally
- Publisher
- New York : Broadway Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780767903295
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.37 / 5 (213 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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