Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Holdsclaw (who by then had won national championships every season Pat Summitt was with the Vols) had predicted the 1998–99 team would be the greatest ever. This loss ended the season at 29-5 one win shy of extending Summitt's streak of 30-win seasons. In 2007 Pat Summitt told U.

She is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division. Summitt received the Arthur APat Summitt Courage Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards.