Pat Summitt diagnosed with early onset dementia

Lady Vols basketball coach has no plans to step down

(By Dan Fleser, Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group) - For such a strong figure, Pat Summitt was feeling almost helpless.

Months of erratic behavior had left Tennessee women’s basketball coach bewildered, scared and asking herself “What’s wrong with me?”

Summitt went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in May. She underwent a series of tests and received a stunning answer. The diagnosis was early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type.