Birth place: Clarksville, Tennessee
Birth name: Patricia Sue Head
Father: Richard Head, family farmer
Mother: Hazel (Albright) Head, family farmer
Marriage: R.B. Summitt II (1980-2008, divorced)
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May 29, 2012 – Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama at the White House.
April 18, 2012 – After 38 years, steps down as the head coach of the University of Tennessee’s women’s basketball team at the end of the 2011-2012 season. According to the university, Summitt will remain involved in mentoring players and recruiting as the team’s head coach emeritus.
October 4, 2012 – As part of a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by Debby Jennings, the former University of Tennessee media relations director for women’s sports, Summitt files an affidavit saying that she felt forced out as head coach of the Tennessee women’s team after her diagnosis with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
October 5, 2012 – In response to the affidavit she filed, Summitt releases a statement saying that it was 100% her decision to step down as head coach of the Tennessee women’s team after her diagnosis with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
May 21, 2014 – Announces on Twitter that she is having knee replacement surgery.
