Despite her devastating diagnosis, she led the Vols to win their sixteenth SEC championship in March 2012. Pat's life took a shocking turn in 2011, when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible brain condition that affects 5 million Americans. She was a role model for the many women she coached 74 of her players have become coaches. Motherhood taught her to balance that rigidity with communication and kindness. She learned to be tough from her strict, demanding father. She owed her coaching success to her personal struggles and triumphs. She coached an undefeated season, co-captained the first women's Olympic team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was named Sports Illustrated 'Sportswoman of the Year'. For 38 years, she broke records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. "Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.” “Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.” Summitt in her 2013 book with Sally Jenkins, "Sum it Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective" I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves.
But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. "I remember every player - every single one - who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, 'or in a correctional institution,' as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. Summitt in her 1999 book "Reach for the Summit" Here's a look back at some of the ones she'll be remembered for. Legendary Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, who died Tuesday morning, was known for her memorable quotes, many of which shed light on her leadership style and work ethic.
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