Vacations Blog

So, for full disclosure, I should say a few things… first, I live in Tennessee. Second, I work blocks from the Stanford campus. Lastly, I work on the technical end of this blog. That said, it may not have made front page news, but the University of Tennessee ‘Lady’ Volunteers took on the Stanford University Cardinals for the 2008 NCAA womens basketball championship. The Vol’s won the game handily, but the Cardinals showed class. You don’t have to be a fan of sports to appreciate the accomplishment for the Lady Vol’s. It was their 8th National Championship under the leadership of Pat Summitt. The New York Times reported a story of her start:

Thirty-four seasons ago, after Pat Summitt had coached her first game at Tennessee, she phoned home.

“Did you win?” her father, Richard Head, asked.

“No sir, we got beat.”

“By how much?”

“One point.”

There was a long pause, and as Summitt feared that her father would blame her, he said: “Let me just tell you one thing, Trisha. Don’t take donkeys to the Kentucky Derby.”

There are a lot of directions you could take the story from here (remember, I said I live there :-)), but I’ll leave it at this… if you can appreciate the accomplishment of the Tennessee women or women in basketball, and if you happen to find yourself in the South East, you can visit the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in no other than Knoxville, Tennessee.

And, even though I live 3 miles from the UT campus, I don’t say this very much (my grass is blue), but go Vol’s.

David

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