Summitt, 59, the women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, has announced she has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type. She disclosed the diagnosis Monday and planned to tell her players in a team meeting Tuesday afternoon, according to reports.
"There's not going to be any pity party and I'll make sure of that," she said, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
Summit said she plans to keep coaching and add to her 1,071 career coaching wins and eight national championships.
