Honors
- 1990: Inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame as a coach, the first year coaches were honored.
- 1999: Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the inaugural class.
- 2000: Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
- April 2000.: Named the Naismith Basketball Coach of the Century.
- 2008: Named Best Coach/Manager ESPY Award. Award encompasses all sports college and professional
- 2009: Named to Sporting News' list of the 50 greatest coaches of all time (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, college basketball, and college football). She is listed in position 11.
- 2011: Named Sports Illustrated's Sportswoman of the Year, Dec. 6th, 2011 in NYC. (She shared the Sportsman/Sportswoman honor with Duke University men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski.)
- Summitt is the only person to have two courts used by NCAA Division I basketball teams named in her honor: "Pat Head Summitt Court" at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and "The Summitt" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
- She also has two streets named after her: "Pat Head Summitt Street" on the University of Tennessee campus and "Pat Head Summitt Avenue" on the University of Tennessee at Martin campus.
- 2012: Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
- Arthur Ashe Courage Award Recipient at the 2012 ESPY Awards]
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