Coach Gunter remembered as tournament in her name tips off
From today's story in The Advocate by Scott Hotard:
Temeka Johnson remembers the day she met Sue Gunter.
Johnson was an all-state point guard at Bonnabel High in Kenner. Gunter was one of several college coaches hoping to sign Jewell Johnson’s granddaughter.
“There’s something special about that lady,” Temeka Johnson recalls her grandmother saying.
Jewell Johnson, who died of cancer last year, always knew a good thing when she saw it.
A decade after the coach’s visit to the Johnson home, those who played for Gunter — or coached against her — describe the most celebrated figure in LSU women’s basketball the same way.
She was something special.
“However many wins she had,” said Lady Tigers coach Van Chancellor, in his third season at the helm of the program Gunter made relevant, “she was a better person than she was a coach.”
Today begins the inaugural Sue Gunter Classic, a two-day, four-team tournament featuring LSU, Houston Baptist, North Carolina A&T and Louisiana-Lafayette.
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