Local residents are remembering Pat Summitt for her pursuit of women’s equality both on and off the basketball court and her public battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The longtime University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach, who won 1,098 games and eight national championships in 38 seasons with the Lady Volunteers before stepping down in 2012, died Tuesday morning at age 64. Gainesville High girls basketball coach Brenda Hill-Gilmore — who had known Summitt for years, partly through working as an assistant at the University of Georgia and partly through the recruitment of Hill-Gilmore’s daughter, Tasha Humphrey — said Summitt fought for equality between women’s basketball programs and men’s.
Local basketball fans remember Tennessee coach Pat Summitt as role model for women