Mt. Juliet, Lipscomb basketball great Kim Satterfield Van Atta dies at 60
Kim Satterfield Van Atta helped lead the 1983 Mt. Juliet basketball team to the state championship. She became Lipscomb's all-time leading scorer.
Kim Satterfield Van Atta, who helped lead the Mt. Juliet girls basketball team to the state championship and is in the Lipscomb Athletic Hall of Fame, died on May 2 following an extended illness. She was 60.
Satterfield Van Atta was a key player on Mt. Juliet's 1983 Class AAA state title team. She made the All-Nashville Interscholastic League first team along with teammates Kim Bingham and Lori Gross.
She also made the all-state tournament team. That Mt. Juliet team finished the season ranked 13th nationally by USA Today's final Super 25 Girls Basketball Poll.
She played at Lipscomb from 1983 to 1987. In 1986 and '87, she became the first female Lipscomb athlete to earn NAIA All-American honors. In 1997, Satterfield Van Atta became the first female inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame.