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A private funeral service for former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt was held Thursday. Erin Freeman, who has been acting as a spokeswoman for the Summitt family this week, confirmed that the funeral took place Thursday in Clarksville, Tennessee. When Summitt died Tuesday at age 64, her family had issued a statement saying a […]

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PATRICIA SUE HEAD SUMMITT Born: June 14, 1952, in Clarksville, Tenn. Education: University of Tennessee-Martin, where she was an All-America basketball player at Tennessee-Martin and earned a B.S. in physical education; M.S. in physical education from Tennessee-Knoxville Halls of Fame: Inducted in 2000 into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; 1999 into Women’s Basketball Hall […]

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Pat Summitt, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA Division I history who presided over a nearly four-decade dynasty at the University of Tennessee, died on Tuesday morning, The Associated Press. She was 64. “It is with tremendous sadness that I announce the passing of my mother, Patricia Sue Head Summitt,” Tyler Summit said in a statement. […]