![]() Her memoir, Sum It Up written with Sally Jenkins, was published in 2013. She received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPYs. She started the Pat Summitt Foundation to raise awareness about dementia and find a cure for Alzheimer's. In 2011, she learned she had early-onset Alzheimer's disease and retired as head coach in 2012. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. That makes it a memoir that came just in time. Last year, at age 59, legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt stepped away from the job she'd held since she was 22 years old because of early-onset Alzheimer's. As a head coach, she lead the University of Tennessee woman's team to eight national basketball championships and 1,098 victories, which is more games than any other Division I college coach, male or female. In many ways, 'Sum It Up' is a memoir that came too soon. ![]() She was a co-captain of the 1976 women's Olympic team, which won a silver medal, then was the head coach at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, where the United States won a gold medal. ![]() She graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1974 and became head coach at the University of Tennessee's flagship campus in Knoxville. ![]() Pat Summitt was born Patricia Sue Head on Jin Clarksville, Tennessee. Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective. 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. ![]()
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