PHOENIX – When Isabelle Harrison was called out of class at the University of Tennessee and into the office of Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt one day during Harrison’s freshman year, she knew something wasn’t right.
“I just remember there were a lot of reporters on campus,” Mercury center Harrison said. “And we kind of just went to the office, and she closed the door and she was sitting right next to me. She told me what happened.”
Summitt revealed that she had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s — a progressive disease that causes problems with memory and thinking behavior and worsens over time.
