That was the best time of my life as far as coaching." "We didn't have to go play with the guys. "It just opened the doors for a lot of players that wanted to play basketball," Summitt remembers. In 1976, Pat Summitt was co-captain of the U.S. And her opponents would certainly tell you that." "What she does better than anybody in the world is fight," Jenkins says. Jenkins, Summitt's co-author, has been writing with and about Summitt for more than a decade, and she highlights Summitt's competitiveness as a trademark of both her coaching career and her battle with Alzheimer's. "Let's just say we were in the hayloft and we just started battling," Summitt says. Shooting hoops with her brothers, Summitt first saw equality on the court they didn't care that she was a girl, and they didn't let her off easy. The hard work on the farm was followed with equally hard play: drag racing on country roads and basketball games in the hayloft of the barn. And so, you know, I think it was a good thing for me."
"My parents, they just really made all of us aware of what we had to do every day when we went to work. Summitt grew up as Trisha Head, in the tiny town of Henrietta, Tenn., in a family she describes as "hardscrabble." "Growing up on a dairy farm, we had cows - we had to milk 'em 5 a.m. Summitt and Jenkins join Wertheimer to talk about Summitt's youth on a farm, the transformative power of Title IX, and her life post-diagnosis. Co-authored with sports writer Sally Jenkins, Summitt's memoir captures her life story even as her memories fade. She went public with her diagnosis, and it's the first story she tells in her new memoir, Sum It Up. "But after that, I knew what I was facing, and I wanted to get it out there. "When I first was diagnosed, I was in disbelief," Summitt tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. Now the famously fierce coach is facing an opponent unlike any other: In 2011, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In 38 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team, Summitt shouted her team to more victories than any other coach in the history of college basketball - men's or women's. The image of Pat Summitt for many fans is that of a madwoman, decked out in orange, yelling to her players from the sideline. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sum It Up Subtitle 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective Author Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins
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