Tennessee Women's Basketball Coach Pat Summitt Diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's

Pat Summitt, who has coached the Tennessee women's basketball team for the past 37 years, and who has been arguably the most influential woman in sports in the last two centuries, announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.  This news came as a shock to the sports community, for throughout her career Summitt has established herself as a personification of strength, toughness, and unflappibility.  The fact that Summitt could develop the disease seems unfathomable.  Yet this is the nature of Alzheimer's - it can hit anyone, no matter how strong the person's character, personality, nature, anything.  It does not discriminate and it hits hard, often effecting the person's family just as much as the person.  Pat Summitt will certainly have a tough road ahead as the disease sets in, and here at Long Term Solutions we all wish her the very best.