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Grassroots effort under way to fund,
build Pat Head Summitt Legacy Park
By Jimmy Settle
Leaf-Chronicle
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Six years ago,
Pat Head Summitt came home to her
Montgomery County birthplace, where
she was keynote speaker for a memorable dinner hosted by the local chapter of
the University of Tennessee Alumni Association.
At that time, Summitt reaffirmed her
love for the area where she grew up as
the daughter of Richard and Hazel Head,
learned to play basketball in a barn on
the family’s Henrietta farm with her tall,
ABOUT PAT HEAD
SUMMITT
stout brothers and, most importantly,
learned the importance of hard work,
which carried over into her legendary
sports career.
The foundation for her fame began
here in Montgomery County where she
was raised, and where many of her relatives still reside. Now, a movement is
growing in Clarksville to give back to
Summitt and her vast, local family in a
formal and lasting way.
Summitt’s impact transcends sports.
Nationwide, the longtime UT Lady Vols
4 bodies pulled from
wreckage of plane
crash are identified
By Michael Melia
Associated Press
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» South Montgomery County
native Patricia Sue “Pat” Head
Summitt, born on June 14,
1952, was head coach of the
University of Tennessee Lady
Vols from 1974 to 2012. She
now serves as the head coach
emeritus for the UT women’s
program.
» She is the all-time winningest
coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men’s or women’s
team in any division.
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was killed along with his son,
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were in a house struck by the
small propeller-driven plane on
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to the Connecticut medical examiner’s office for identification.
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including Henningsgaard, 54, of
Medina, Washington; his 17-yearold son; 13-year-old Sade Brantley and 1-year-old Madisyn
Mitchell, who lived in the East
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Summitt
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basketball coach and U.S.
Olympic champion is
hailed for tearing down
gender barriers and singlehandledly transforming the women’s game
into a sport of importance. In retirement,
Summitt bears the title of
Lady Vols head coach
emeritus, and she is being
honored in all corners of
the state of Tennessee in
various ways.
With
determination
and work ethic equal to
that displayed during her
coaching career, Summitt
is in the early stages of a
public battle with Alzheimer’s disease, a condition for which she is on a
campaign to raise public
awareness. Even in her
post-coaching life, Summitt’s star continues to
rise, and just last month,
an acclaimed television
documentary on her life
and career titled “Pat
XO” premiered on the
ESPN sports network.
Now, a grassroots, volunteer effort is under
way in Clarksville to permanently honor Summitt
in the community where
she grew up, with a statue
and surrounding park situated – if all approvals
are met – along the northern stretch of the Cumberland Riverwalk.
Legacy Park
A core group of local
volunteers, operating as
the Pat Head Summitt
Project Committee, has
been meeting in Clarksville and brainstorming
for several months on
how to make the proposed
“Pat Head Summitt Legacy Park” happen. In July,
the committee approved
a design plan, which now
is ready to go before local
governments and boards,
and the general public, in
hopes of inspiring mostly
private funding and support.
The idea to coordinate
a Clarksville monument
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Murray said Saturday the
plane was upside down
when it struck a house at
about a 60 degree angle.
He said the pilot was making his first approach to
the airport and did not declare an emergency before the crash.
Nothing ‘wrong’
After removing the
wreckage and before analyzing any data, he said at
a news conference in New
Haven, “We don’t have
any indication there was
anything wrong with the
plane.”
A preliminary NTSB
report on the crash is ex-
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Powers, Bill Hoy and
Charlie Koon were quick
to signal support, and
soon an ad hoc committee
began meeting to shape
the project. Others who
joined the committee to
offer critical input along
the way have included
Daniel Binkley, Alan Robison, Dixie Webb, David
Welch, Jimmy Settle,
Theresa
Harrington,
Frank Lott, Gene Washer,
Phil Harpel, Bill Harpel
and Elizabeth Black.
Meanwhile,
Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan and County Mayor
Carolyn Bowers have
been kept apprised of the
ongoing conversations,
and both have signaled
support of the plan in
principle.
» A widened stretch of
the Riverwalk, paved in
orange and white stones
with a raised walkway on
the north side, flanked on
one side by a brick “story
wall.”
» The story wall would
have 10 flat-panel silhouette images made of
weathering steel, depicting Summitt and signage
that highlights various
eras of her life, from her
childhood in Henrietta to
college player, to coaching legend.
» The walkway would
rise to the focal point,
which would be a bronze
statue of Summitt in a
classic coaching pose –
described by the committee as “The Stare” – with
five bronze chairs arrayed in a semi-circle to
represent the gathering
of players during a timeout. The idea is for an interactive sensory experience, in which visitors
can sit in the chairs, and
possibly push a button
and hear Summitt giving
coaching commands to
her assembled players.
» On the other side of
the walkway would be an
area defined by paving
stones and shaped like the
free-throw lane of a basketball court with a sculpture representing the
basketball goal.
» A landscaped berm
would rise behind the story wall, and various plantings would enhance and
define the edges of the
micro park.
Park features
UT architects
With the ball rolling,
the committee invited local architects who are UT
graduates to join the effort and help shape the
project design.
In July, after several
meetings and revisions,
architect Brad Martin
with Lyle-Cook-Martin,
who agreed to chair the
design team, presented
an aerial-view rendering
of “Pat Head Summitt
Legacy Park,” which was
unanimously approved
by the committee. It includes:
Martin said he was
honored to be asked to
lead the design team. He
started by sending out a
request to all local UTconnected arthitecture
firms.
“A couple meetings
were held with Pam Powell with Powell Architecture; Jon Clark with Clark
& Associates; Doug Jones
with Violette Architecture, and myself attending. We first met the committee leaders to seek initial ideas and input followed by a second
» Summitt coached UT teams to eight NCAA national championships throughout her career, second only to the record 10
titles won by UCLA men’s coach John Wooden.
» She is the only coach in NCAA history, and one of three
college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 victories. In 38 years
as a coach, she never had a losing season.
» Summitt was named the Naismith Basketball Coach of the
Century in April 2000.
» In 2009, the Sporting News placed her No. 11 on its list of the
50 Greatest Coaches of All Time in all sports. She was the only
woman on the list.
» On April 20, 2012, the White House announced that Pat
Head Summitt would be awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. Summitt also received the Arthur Ashe Courage
Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards.
» Summitt has written three books, all with co-author Sally
Jenkins: “Reach for the Summitt,” which is part a motivational
book and part biography, “Raise the Roof” about the Lady
Vols’ 1997–1998 undefeated and NCAA-championship winning
season, and “Sum It Up,” covering her life including her experience being diagnosed and living with Alzheimer’s disease.
to Summitt began last
year as a discussion
among editors at The
Leaf-Chronicle of possible community service
projects. The prospect of
honoring Summitt took
hold, and Leaf-Chronicle
Editor & General Manager Richard V. Stevens
pitched the idea to various community and business leaders, especially
those with strong ties to
the University of Tennessee and well-known admirers of Coach Summitt.
“The response was
overwhelmingly
positive,” Stevens said. “For
many of us, there was an
‘Ah-ha’ moment – like,
why haven’t we already
started on this – when we
discussed the significance of Coach Summitt’s
impact on the world and
her connection to our
community.
“It struck us how
unique it is to have two giants of women’s sports –
Wilma Rudolph, the first
African-American woman to win Olympic gold,
and Pat Head Summitt –
both come from here.
We’ve done a good job
honoring Wilma, with a
statue and a road and an
event center bearing her
name, and now we think
it’s important to honor Pat
Summitt in an appropriately dynamic way.”
Mac Edington, Bill
pected within 10 business
days.
Henningsgaard,
a
highly regarded philanthropist, was flying a
small plane to Seattle in
2009 with his mother
when the engine quit. He
crash-landed on Washington’s Columbia River.
In the Connecticut
crash,
Henningsgaard
was bringing the10-seater
plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander
690B, in for a landing at
Tweed New Haven Airport in rainy weather just
before noon when the
plane struck two small
homes, engulfing them in
flames. The aircraft’s left
wing lodged in one house
and its right wing in the
other.
As the children’s mother yelled for help from the
meeting among ourselves, where the first
sketch concept was generated based on roundtable design dialogue. That
concept was presented
back to the committee
with great responses. I
then developed all previous concepts, desires and
ideas into the proposed
site plan as illustrated.
“The next steps for the
designer group will be to
explore further-detailed
development of specific
areas of the park and illustrate additional imagery for promotional purposes,” Martin said.
The park is targeted
for placement on the
city’s northern stretch of
the Cumberland Riverwalk “at a slight bend in
the existing walkway
linking the Wendy’s and
O’Charley’s area to the
confluence of the Red and
Cumberland
rivers,”
Martin said.
“The proposed placement is intentionally purposed to offer a semi-isolated area for serious contemplation, while also allowing typical park users
to walk through. Either
way, the pedestrian must
take note of the park and
its message, much like
Pat’s influence has been a
must for us as Tennesseans, whether we follow
women’s college basketball or not.
“The overall design intent is not to take over the
Riverwalk, but to offer a
meaningful, hands-on, interactive tribute to Coach
Summitt as one of many
opportunities along the
trail and park. As her
birthplace, ClarksvilleMontgomery County has
a unique opportunity,
over and above any other
city or county, to capture
2009 crash
First responders work the scene of a small-plane crash
Friday in East Haven, Conn. The pilot, his teenage son and
two children in a home were killed. VM WILLIAMS, THE NEW
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front lawn, several people
in the neighborhood raced
to rescue the children, but
they were forced to turn
back by the fire.
A neighbor, David Esposito, was among those
who raced to help the children’s mother. He said he
ran into the upstairs of the
house, where the woman
believed her children
were, but he couldn’t find
them. He returned down-
In 2009, Bill Henningsgaard was flying from Astoria, Oregon with his 84year-old mother to watch
his daughter in a high
school play when he
crashed into the river as
he tried to glide back to
the airport. He and his
mother, a former Astoria
mayor, climbed out on a
wing and were rescued.
the comprehensive story
of Pat, including the everimportant use of her family name, ‘Head,’” Martin
said.
What’s next
Overall, the committee hopes to complete the
design, commission the
statue and related artwork and raise money to
fund the installation of
the park, which would
then be dedicated to the
city. Next, the plans go before various local government boards, in this sequence:
» Presentation to the
city Parks & Recreation
Board and Public Arts
Commission, assisted by
Daniel Binkley, city project manager.
» Presentation to the
Clarksville City Council
in early August, with a request for approval of the
concept by resolution.
Stevens has met with
the Clarksville-Montgomery County Convention
& Visitors Bureau Board,
assisted by Theresa Harrington, to discuss using
the Aspire Clarksville
foundation’s 501(c)3 status as the private fundraising conduit, and Harrington has agreed to
work with the CVB board
to promote that path.
The committee has established a fundraising
committee, co-charied by
Bill Powers and Charlie
Koon, which has begun
meeting with Frank Lott
of BLF Marketing in
Clarksville to plan fundraising and marketing
strategies.
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