University of Tennessee Athletics
1999-2000 Tennessee Lady Vol Basketball Accomplishments
April 12, 2000 | Women's Basketball
1999-2000 Overall record: 33-4...NCAA Championship Runner-upSEC Tournament Champions...SEC Regular Season Co-Champions... Once again, the Lady Vols led the nation in home attendance with an average of 15,341 fans per game...29 of the team's 37 contests were covered by nine different networks, including CBS, ESPN, espn2, Fox Sports Net, Comcast, Fox Sports Bay, Fox Sports West, Sports Channel, College Sports Southeast...ESPY's co-winner of The Collegiate Team of the Decade...Coach Pat Summitt won the prestigious Naismith Coach of the Century honor...In the December 5th victory over Wisconsin, Summitt notched her 700th win and concluded this season with a 728-150 career record...With her success this season, Coach Summitt is now on the verge of the Top Ten in All-Time Coaching Victories (both men and women)...Seniors Niya Butts and LaShonda Stephens concluded successful careers with two NCAA titles a piece...Kodak All-Americans (Tamika Catchings and Semeka Randall) Kodak All-District Team (Catchings and Randall)... Naismith Player of the Year (Catchings)Rawlings/WBCA Player of the Year (Catchings)Sports Illustrated First Team All-American (Catchings) United States Basketball Writers' Association Women's Player of the Year (Catchings) Associated Press Player of the Year (Catchings)Associated Press First Team All-American (Catchings)Associated Press Second Team All-American (Randall)Women's Basketball Journal First Team All-American (Catchings)Women's Basketball Journal Fourth Team All-American (Randall)Women's Basketball Journal Freshman All-America Team (Kara Lawson)...Women's Basketball Journal National Defensive Player of the Year (Randall)...NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team (Catchings) ...NCAA Mideast Regional Most Outstanding Player (Catchings)...NCAA Mideast Regional All-Tournament Team (Catchings, Randall)...Associated Press All-SEC First Team (Catchings)Associated Press All-SEC Second Team (Lawson and Randall)...Associated Press All-SEC Third Team (Michelle Snow)...Coaches' All-SEC First Team (Catchings, Lawson, Randall)...Coaches' All-SEC Second Team (Snow)...SEC First Team (Catchings, Randall)...All-SEC Tournament Team (Catchings, Snow)SEC All-Freshmen Team (Gwen Jackson and Lawson)...SEC "Good Works" Team (Catchings)... SEC All-Academic Team (Niya Butts, Amanda Canon, Sarah Edwards, Randall)USA Today's All-Injury Team (Kyra Elzy)... Honda Award Nominee (Catchings).
