I recently watched the documentary Breaking Glass on Hulu about Pat Summitt and it wrecked me in the best way possible. 🛡️🏀✨
If you do not know her stats, let me paint the picture for you. Over her 38 seasons as a head coach, she had 161 student athletes come through her program. She secured 1,098 career wins and 8 NCAA national championships.
But the statistic she was most proud of? A 100 percent graduation rate for every single player who completed their eligibility under her leadership.
What fascinates me is what happened when we first started watching the film. My husband turned to me and said, she was not just a great women's coach or a great female coach. She was one of the greatest coaches of all time.
He was absolutely right.
When President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he affirmed that exact same truth. He dropped the qualifier entirely.
As a founder, it is so easy to get obsessed with the scoreboard. The funding, the metrics, the user acquisition. But Pat reminds me of what actual leadership looks like.
She never did it alone. She surrounded herself with incredible assistant coaches who operated as a brilliant, unified team. And she never took all the credit. When talking about her legendary players, famously known as The Meeks, Pat would just smile and say, they make me look like I really know what I am doing.
True humility is the mark of a great leader. Not dollar signs, but dignity. That is where legacy is born and how it outlives us.
Build the system. Demand excellence. Win the game. But never forget that the human beings inside your system are the actual legacy.
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