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- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Pat Summitt's Legacy is Making Us Take Women's Sports Seriously
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Pat Summitt's Legacy is Making Us Take Women's Sports Seriously
Michael Rosenberg
INSIDE COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Posted: Tuesday August 23, 2011 4:01PM ;
Updated: Tuesday August 23, 2011 7:12PM
Sports Illustrated
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/
writers/michael_rosenberg/08/23/pat.summit/
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http://tinyurl.com/3sh5zcg
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Pat Summitt has won eight national championships at Tennessee, but that is
not her legacy. She has won more than 1,000 games and counting, but that
is not her legacy. In the coming days, you will undoubtedly hear dozens of
former and current players tell stories about how much Summitt meant to
their lives, about the lessons she taught them and the things she made
them learn about themselves. You hear that about the very best coaches.
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But I don't think even that is her legacy.
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Summitt has coached her women like they were men. She has done it for so
long, and so well, that it now sounds politically incorrect even to say
that. We now assume that women should be coached and pushed, not coddled.
We assume they should be taught and critiqued and made to run gassers and
hit the weight room. We assume they should play not just to play, but to
achieve. We assume all of this largely because of Pat Summitt.
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The reports that Summitt has early-onset dementia are layered in sadness.
There is the sadness, of course, that a 59-year-old woman is losing her
mental health. There is the sadness for her family and the painful road
ahead. And there is the sports-fan sadness, the kind we feel whenever
reality hits our little fantasy world. In an uncertain world, there Is
something comforting about thinking Joe Paterno and Mike Krzyzewski and
Pat Summitt will stay in their jobs forever.
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But for me, at least, there is another layer of sadness. As much as
anybody in American athletics, Summitt is her sport. She both transcended
and legitimized women's basketball.
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Alzheimer's experts praise Summitt for her disclosure
Written by Janice Lloyd
USA TODAY
ESPN
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20110824/SPORTS/108240334/
Alzheimer-s-experts-praise-Summitt-her-disclosure?odyssey=nav%7Chead
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http://tinyurl.com/3w5njgy
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Alzheimer's disease experts Tuesday hailed Pat Summitt for her decisions
to go public with her diagnosis of early onset dementia, the Alzheimer's
type and to go forth with her coaching career.
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"She deserves tremendous credit for announcing her illness," says John
Morris, a physician and director of the Alzheimer's disease research
center at Washington University in St. Louis who is not involved in her
treatment. "This under scores the point that people who are not older can
also get dementia. It is key for others to know by recognizing and
diagnosing early she, and others, can still function at a very high level
for some time to come."
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Summitt, 59, has led the Tennessee women's basketball program to eight
national championships. After experiencing several months of erratic
behavior, Summitt went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., several
months ago where she was tested and told she had the early Alzheimer's
type dementia.
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Morris says early onset dementia is a "rare inherited genetic disease" and
strikes people younger than 65. Among the 4 to 5 million people in the USA
who have a form of dementia, only about 5
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Summitt told The Knoxville News Sentinel her grandmother had severe
dementia.
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Morris is conducting research at Washington University on young people
affected by the rare form. While symptoms can appear as early as the 20s,
the average of people in their research is 45.
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"In the earliest changes, the impairment can be quite subtle," says
Morris. "She may still be able to have the cognitive capacity to
understand basketball strategy and adjust to differences in the game. She
may need to rely more on her associates to assist her in that but it
doesn't mean she's suddenly incapacitated."
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