- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
- Son, Tyler, born in September, 1990.
- Winningest basketball coach (at Tennessee) in NCAA history.
- Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
- Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 (inagural class).
- Head basketball coach of the Lady Volunteers at the University of Tennessee, 1974 - present.
- She was an All-America basketball player at the University of Tennessee-Martin, and won a silver medal on the 1976 US Olympic team. When she coached the USA team to a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she became the first in US Olympic basketball history to both play on and coach medal-winning teams.
- She grew up on her family's dairy and tobacco farm.
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