“Just like there will never be another John Wooden, there will never be another Pat Summitt,” Tennessee Athletic Director Dave Hart said at Summitt’s retirement announcement. Summit spent 38 years as coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team before dementia forced her early retirement, at age 59, in 2012. When the women’s coach abruptly took a sabbatical to work on a doctorate degree, Summit was named coach just shy of her 22nd birthday. Summitt was a seven-time NCAA coach of the year and, in 2000, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She won eight NCAA titles at Tennessee despite arriving in Knoxville eight years before the organization sponsored its first women’s basketball championship, in 1982.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 28, 2016 10:54 UTC