Pat Summitt Diagnosed With Early-onset Dementia

Bad News has hit the Women's College Basketball World and it involved perhaps the sport's biggest figure. Pat Summitt, the head coach of the Tennessee Women's Basketball Team, has announced that she was diagnosed with early-onset Dementia three months ago at the Mayo Clinic. Too add more stress and concern is the possibility it could lead to Alzheimer's. Pat Summitt has said that there will be "no pity party" and that she will coach the Lady Vols for the upcoming season and beyond for as long as she can. Summitt already has the most wins in Women's College Basketball (and men's for that matter) with 1071 and also has the most National Titles in the women's game with 8.

Alzheimer's is a mental disease that no one deserves to go through in old age. To hear of a brilliant coach like Pat Summitt to have to face it as a possibility is just shocking. She isn't that old, either, being only 59 years young. Summitt will fight this, of course, with meds and mental exercises. It might be an uphill battle considering her grandmother had Alzheimer's but I'm sure if anyone could fight it, Pat Summitt can and will.