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'I am so proud to be a Lady Vol for life': Gloria Deathridge looks back at early '70s team
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Gloria Scott Deathridge is credited as the first Black women’s varsity basketball player at Tennessee .
She found out about team tryouts from a flyer on a telephone pole on campus.
Coach Margaret Hutson had already been at Tennessee a year when Deathridge began playing during the 1971-72 school year .
The 1974 team would finish 25 -2 in a tournament.
But she didn’t call.” Deathridge heard from former teammates who did play that first year under Summitt that the 1974-75 season was a hard but enlightening year, and that they learned a lot under the future Hall of Fame coach. Despite this “what if"” Deathridge said she is proud to have been a part of the Tennessee program in its modern era infancy. “I am so proud to be a Lady Vol for life,” she said. “I am so proud of the program and how far it has come.”.
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