Pat Summitt, the legendary women's basketball coach, has died at the age of 64 after her battle with early onset Alzheimer's.
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She was diagnosed in 2011 and coached one more season before retiring.
Summitt was the winningest coach in college basketball, notching 1,098 victories along with eight national championships. She started coaching the University of Tennessee Volunteers in 1974 at age 22, even before the NCAA formally recognized women's basketball, per CNN.
The court at Thompson Boling Arena has been named after as "The Summitt" and she had a statue dedicated to her built on campus in 2013. President Barack Obama announced she was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in April 2012. The "We Back Pat" campaign also began almost immediately after Summitt's medical announcement and fighting the disease became her cause.
She coached a staggering 47 percent of her games against ranked opponents and had 504 wins at home against only 48 losses over almost four decades of coaching.
