Saying Goodbye to Another Legend: RIP Pat Summitt.



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The Pat Summitt Foundation announced this morning that the legendary NCAA coach has passed away. Summitt was 64.

Her son, Tyler Summitt, added in a statement that his mother died peacefully in her sleep in Knoxville, surrounded by close family and friends.

Summitt has been battling with dementia since 2011. A year later, she left her coaching job at the University of Tennessee, though she still worked with the team, assuming the title “head coach emeritus.”

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The Lady Vols and Summitt won eight national championships in the 38 seasons she worked as a coach. She also scored 1,098 career victories, which is more than any other Division I basketball coach, man or woman. In 1976, she won a silver medal in an Olympic women’s basketball tournament and later became the only U.S. Olympian to win medals as both a player and a coach. Summitt has also been named NCAA coach of the year seven times.

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According to the obituary on the Pat Summitt Foundation website, a private service and burial will be held in Middle Tennessee. A public service to celebrate her life will take place on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville at the Thompson-Boling Arena. The details for that event will be shared at a later date.

Rest in peace, champion.




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