For a coach used to cutting down nets after winning championships, Pat Summitt is hoping an unexpected illness won’t cut her career short.

Basketball fans were shocked Tuesday with the news that the legendary coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type. Summitt says she will continue to coach as long as she is able and the administration at Tennessee is allowing the NCAA’s winningest hoop coach with more wins than even Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and retired Bobby Knight to retain her position.

The 59-year-old coaching legend didn’t feel right after the end of the Lady Vols’ season in March. She consulted her local physician and then went on to the Mayo Clinic in May where the diagnosis was made.

Anger and frustration filled the following month as the winner of 1,071 games and eight national championships as a sideline leader tried to deal with the latest health information.

Once shes came to terms with the information, she knew it was time to let the rest of the world know what is in store for her resulting in interviews this week with the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Washington Post.

As you’d expect from  one of the fiercest competitors to ever stalk a basketball court, Summitt isn’t about to fold against the dementia stating, “There’s not going to be any pity party and I’ll make sure of that.”

In order to clear the air about her status and her illness, Summitt recorded a message for basketball fans.

As a reporter, I’ve spoken with Summitt in the past and frequently talked with the woman who was her collegiate basketball coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The grit and determination she has displayed throughout her career and that legendary scowl should make dementia afraid of her.

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