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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.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
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Pat Summit, a country girl from Henrietta, Tennessee, grew up learning the game of basketball with a homemade backboard in a barn against three brothers who gave no quarter. She spent most of her time in the tobacco fields, tending them under the eye of an unyielding father. He would mold a relentless competitor and nonconformist daughter of the South who would go on to set all-time records for victories and forever alter the possibilities for women...
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Pat Summitt learned the game of basketball against three brothers who gave no quarter. She won an Olympic medal and at twenty-two became head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols. Over four decades she established Tennessee as the most elite team in the country and won more games than anyone in NCAA Division I history. The records and accolades didn't mean nearly as much to her as her coaches and players. She balanced career and marriage...
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