[.ca] Raise the Roof (ISBN 0767903293)

From Amazon.com:
It seems fitting that the most successful college basketball coach since John Wooden is named Summit, because that's exactly where she's taken the women's program at the University of Tennessee. In Raise the Roof, she recounts the Lady Vols' astonishing 1997-98 campaign. The team went 39-0, won its third straight NCAA crown and sixth overall under her direction, and, most importantly to Summitt, "played as if they had no internal or physical boundaries." If the team's unprecedented success is the engine that runs Summitt's story, the fuel that powers it goes a good deal deeper than what happened on the court. "With this team," she admits, "I was different." From two-time All-American forward Chamique Holdsclaw to the four freshmen from broken homes on whose talents the future rested, Summitt realized early that she had to approach them differently than she had any collection of Lady Vols before, and she did; she cared about them differently, yelled at them differently, and reveled with them differently, ultimately tapping into her own emotions in ways she never had before. She, and they, sought to set new standards for themselves, and for their sport. The record shows they did; Summitt details how and why. "Throughout the season," she writes, "I had the curious sensation of something rising." In the end, she rises to the occasion by identifying and preserving that "something." --Jeff Silverman

Raise the roof:
This book gives you all the inside details of the lady vols 1997-1998 season.A must for any lady vol fan!!

Raise the Roof:
I am a high school basketball player and I really enjoy this book. I have read this book more than once and it's good everytime. I love all the inside stories on the Tennessee team and I love the feeling of being there as I read. It is so realistic and I can really relate to what goes on in women's basketball and the experience in it. Pat Summitt did a great job on this book and I only wish I could have really been there as a part of the team and face what they faced during that undefeated season.

Pat has a way with words!:
In her "down-home" easy to understand way Pat Summitt writes an incredible book! If you get this one you should also get "Reach for the Summitt". These two books should be required reading for women in general! If I had girls that wanted to play B-ball, they would be going to Tennessee!

Awesome! Go Lady Vols!:
I am a boys high school basketball coach with no connection to Tennessee. This book was a great book, about a great team and the greatest women's coach of all time! I couldn't put it down.

A Peek Inside Greatness:
I never really followed women's basketball until I saw a news interview on TV after Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols had lost to UConn. I decided to look up this coach on the internet and discovered that she was a legend in her on right. I was embarrassed because I knew absolutely nothing about her. The book is easy reading and entertaining. It made me laugh, as somethings were just down right funny. I like the outline of the book as it gives short interviews of various players after most chapters. I enjoyed Pat's concise summary of her players character and her dealing with the various issues and problems they faced. She gives a vivid picture of the going on inside a basketball team. She shows an uncanny ability to mold and shape women into winners and all the while, she was willing to make adjustment in herself. Greatness may start with one person, but it can never remain great until it has a supporting cast. Pat her coaches and her players gave us a peek inside greatness and most of all a real life story that got them there.