Her title says coach, but Susan Summons is much more than that.
"She's more like a mother figure," said Melanie Ducott, a sophomore on the Miami-Dade College Women's Basketball team.
For 25 years, Summons has been taking young women at Miami-Dade under her wing and caring for them like they were her children.
One of those young women, is Tory Stephens, a sophomore from St. Petersburg.
"She'll pull me to the side, kiss me on the forehead," explained Stephens, "She'll tell me, 'it's our time, so step it up.'"
"She does things that coaches don't have to do for us," said Ashley Wilkes, who came to Miami-Dade all the way from Windsor, Canada.
Besides teaching her players how to be winners on the court, Summons spends just as much time helping them succeed at school and in life.
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"She helps us go through the process of our schedule, looking through our degrees," said Wilkes.
Kandis Fredrick, a Miami-Dade sophomore said Summons often stops by players apartments with food and just to "help out."
But just because she cares, doesn't mean she can't get serious.
A whopping 93 percent of Summons' players have continued their education and basketball careers at four-year colleges. Add that statistic to her 400-plus wins and no wonder she's a Florida Community College Athletic Association Hall-Of-Famer.
"It's not about the awards," said a humbled Summons. "That just gives me a better platform to reach out to people all across America and say, 'We've got something great here in Kendall. We're making champions and creating champions for life.'"
