[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 29, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4730]
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SENATE RESOLUTION 516--RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF PAT SUMMITT, HEAD COACH 
    EMERITUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM

  Mr. ALEXANDER (for himself, Mr. Corker, and Ms. Mikulski) submitted 
the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 516

       Whereas coaching was the great passion of Pat Summitt's 
     life and was an opportunity for her to work with student-
     athletes, help student-athletes discover their true 
     potentials, and change the lives of the young women she 
     coached;
       Whereas Pat Summitt won 8 National Collegiate Athletic 
     Association (referred to in this preamble as the ``NCAA'') 
     championships, received National Coach of the Year honors 7 
     times over her career, and was recognized as the Naismith 
     Women's Collegiate Coach of the Century in 2000;
       Whereas Pat Summitt won the Gold Medal in the 1984 Summer 
     Olympics as the head coach of the United States women's 
     national basketball team;
       Whereas the last team at the University of Tennessee that 
     Pat Summitt coached finished the season with an overall 
     record of 27-9, winning a Southeastern Conference Tournament 
     Championship and earning a spot in the Elite Eight in the 
     NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in Iowa;
       Whereas Pat Summitt, who had more wins than any other 
     basketball coach, male or female, in NCAA history, concluded 
     her coaching career after 38 seasons at the University of 
     Tennessee on April 18, 2012;
       Whereas Pat Summitt also worked off the court, holding a 
     graduation record of 100 percent for all members of the 
     University of Tennessee women's basketball team who completed 
     their eligibility at the University of Tennessee during Coach 
     Summitt's tenure;
       Whereas Pat Summitt announced on August 23, 2011, that she 
     had been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's 
     type;
       Whereas later in November 2011, Coach Summitt announced the 
     Pat Summitt Foundation, which helps provide funding and 
     research for Alzheimer's disease and dementia; and
       Whereas, on May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama awarded 
     the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor 
     of the United States, to Pat Summitt for her remarkable 
     career as an unparalleled figure in women's team sports and 
     for her courage in speaking out openly and courageously about 
     her battle with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type: Now, 
     therefore, be it
       Resolved, That--
       (1) the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep 
     regret the announcement of the death of Pat Summitt, head 
     coach emeritus of the University of Tennessee women's 
     basketball team; and
       (2) the Senate instructs the Secretary of the Senate 
     communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives 
     and transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the 
     deceased.

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