Pat Summitt, the greatest coach in the history of women's basketball, has retired.
She is only 59 but she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last year and is hanging up her clipboard.
govolsxtra.com sums up her career nicely "...[she] is the winningest coach in Division 1 basketball, men's or women's, compiling a career won-loss record of 1098-208 in her 38 years as Tennessee head coach from 1974-2012.
Pat Summitt's Lady Vols teams won 16 regular-season SEC titles and 15 SEC tournament titles, including the tournament title in her final season of 2012, and won eight national championships, her final one coming in 2008. Pat Summitt won SEC coach of the year honors eight times, and saw over 70 percent of her players win some form of national honor, ranging from academic to all-American to playing for the U.S. national team.
Pat Summitt's annual salary started out at $8,900 in 1974, but on Feb. 5, 2009, following her 1,000th win, she became the first women's basketball coach to earn more than $1 million dollars a season."
Plus she was nuts as in crazy as in retarded on the sidelines. That was a show in and of itself.
WFDS
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