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Local basketball fans remember Tennessee coach Pat Summitt as role model for women
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In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt smiles as a banner is raised in her honor before the team's NCAA college basketball game against Notre Dame in Knoxville, Tenn. Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who boosted women's game, has died at 64. - photo by Wade Payne
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.
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