Women's college basketball pioneer Pat Summitt was born and raised in Clarksville, Tenn., a deep South city that also had been the hometown of Olympic trendsetter Wilma Randolph and, for a short time in the 1960s, legendary rocker Jimi Hendrix.
A few states to the North, C. Vivian Stringer became a trendsetting coalminer's daughter who sued to become the first black cheerleader in a decade at her high school in Edenborn, Pa., a tiny town near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border that's about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.
By the 1970s, Summitt and Stringer were adults and on their way to helping build women's college basketball from a next-to-nothing sport into something big, and they couldn't have had any idea of what would materialize after they coached their colleges to the first Final Four in 1982, Summitt at the University of Tennessee and Stringer at Cheyney.