A private funeral service for former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt was held Thursday. Erin Freeman, who has been acting as a spokeswoman for the Summitt family this week, confirmed that the funeral took place Thursday in Clarksville, Tennessee. When Summitt died Tuesday at age 64, her family had issued a statement saying a […]
PATRICIA SUE HEAD SUMMITT Born: June 14, 1952, in Clarksville, Tenn. Education: University of Tennessee-Martin, where she was an All-America basketball player at Tennessee-Martin and earned a B.S. in physical education; M.S. in physical education from Tennessee-Knoxville Halls of Fame: Inducted in 2000 into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; 1999 into Women’s Basketball Hall […]
Pat Summitt, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA Division I history who presided over a nearly four-decade dynasty at the University of Tennessee, died on Tuesday morning, The Associated Press. She was 64. “It is with tremendous sadness that I announce the passing of my mother, Patricia Sue Head Summitt,” Tyler Summit said in a statement. […]
“There’s not going to be any pity party and I’ll make sure of that,” Summitt told the Knoxville News-Sentinel in a statement that is as pure Pat Summitt as you’ll ever find. After months of what she described as “erratic behavior” she went to the Mayo Clinic in May and has since received the diagnosis. […]
