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WADEPAYNE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who boosted women's game, has died at 64. BySteveMegargee TheAssociatedPress KNOXVILLE, TENN. Pat Summitt put women's basketball on her back, breaking down barriers with her in- domitable spirit and demanding re- spect for female athletes on her way to becoming the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history. The woman who lifted the sport to national prominence staring down players and officials with her icy glare will be remembered for far more than the impressive numbers she piled up over 38 seasons, including eight na- tional titles. Summitt, 64, died peacefully Tues- day morning at Sherrill Hill Senior Living in Knoxville surrounded by those who loved her most, accord- ing to her son, Tyler. Her death, five years and two months after being di- agnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type, resulted in an out- pouring of reactions from the presi- dent to people who never played for Summitt. "Pat started playing college hoops before Title IX and started coaching before the NCAA recognized wom- en's basketball as a sport," President Obama said. "When she took the helm at Tennessee as a 22-year-old, she had to wash her players' uniforms; by the time Pat stepped down as the Lady Vols' head coach, her teams wore eight championship rings and had cut down nets in sold-out stadiums." Obama added Summitt's Hall of Fame career tells of the historic prog- ress toward equality in American ath- letics the coach helped advance. "Her legacy, however, is mea- sured much more by the generations of young women and men who ad- mired Pat's intense competitiveness and character, and as a result found in themselves the confidence to prac- tice hard, play harder, and live with courage on and off the court," Obama said. Summitt helped grow college wom- en's basketball as her Lady Vols dom- inated the sport in the late 1980s and 1990s, winning six titles in 12 years. Tennessee — the only school she coached — won NCAA titles in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996-98 and 2007-08. Summitt had a career record of 1,098- 208 in 38 seasons, plus 18 NCAA Fi- nal Four appearances. Former Lady Vols forward Candace Parker said Summitt's impact went way beyond Knoxville. "She's changed the way women's basketball is played," Parker said. "She's changed the nature of wom- en's basketball." WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL WinningestcoachSummitthasdied By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press LONDON Leave all the chatter about Serena Williams' pursuit of her 22nd major singles trophy to others. Williams and her coach, Pat- rick Mouratoglou, do not discuss that number. "We don't talk about it all. Zero," Mouratoglou said Tues- day at Wimbledon after watch- ing Williams win her first-round match. Why is that? "Because there is nothing to talk about. We have a Grand Slam (title) to win, and that's what's most important. We don't talk about the reward," he said. "We talk about the work we have to do." That is going to include some extra time spent fine-tuning the top-seeded Williams' serve after she delivered five double-faults, including three in one game, and faced five break points dur- ing an uneven 6-2, 6-4 victory over Amra Sadikovic, a Swiss qualifier ranked 148th and mak- ing her Grand Slam debut. "It's very rare that everything works perfectly the first round. It's one of the things that were not good today, so we're going to work on it," Mouratoglou said. "But it's not a big deal. I don't think it's a big deal." Didn't take long for the first rain of this year's tournament, which cut short action in the early evening and limited play to the main stadium, the only venue with a roof at the All Eng- land Club. In all, 14 matches were suspended in progress and 16 were postponed altogether. Of the matches that did con- clude, zero seeded players lost. Winners included No. 2 Andy Murray, the 2013 champion, in the first all-British men's match at Wimbledon since 2001; No. 4 Stan Wawrinka, who elim- inated 18-year-old American Taylor Fritz and now faces 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Mar- tin del Potro, participating in his first Grand Slam tourna- ment in 2 years after three operations on his left wrist; No. 7 Richard Gasquet, No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and No. 15 Nick Kyrgios. Among the top women, No. 6 Roberta Vinci — who stunned Williams at the U.S. Open last year, ending the American's bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam — beat Alison Riske of the U.S. 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated unseeded Caroline Wozniacki, a former No. 1 who hasn't won a match at a major in 2016; and No. 27 CoCo Vandeweghe of the U.S. had little trouble getting past Kateryna Bondarenko 6-2, 7-6 (3) under the roof in the day's last match. Since earning her sixth Wim- bledon championship and 21st Grand Slam title a year ago, Williams has gone 18-3 at ma- jors, with the losses coming in the U.S. Open semifinals, the Australian Open final and the French Open final. TENNIS SERENA WILLIAMS, COACH DON'T DISCUSS '22' WINS SheadvancesinpursuitofOpen-recordtrophy BEN CURTIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Serena Williams celebrates a point scored against Amara Safikovic of Switzerland during their women's singles match on day two of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Tuesday. By Paul Newberry The Associated Press OMAHA,NEB. Onebyone,someof America's biggest swimming stars are going down at the Olympic tri- als. First, Ryan Lochte. Then, Missy Franklin. Lochte,an11-timeOlympicmed- alist but slowed by a groin injury, missed out on his second chance to make the team in an individual event with a fourth-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle. There was some consolation: Lochte at least clinched a spot in the 4x200 relay, so he'll be in Rio. Franklin can't say that yet. The bubbly star of the 2012 London Gamesstruggledtoaseventh-place finish in the 100 backstroke, deny- ing her a chance to defend the gold medal she won four years ago. Racing just 23 minutes af- ter qualifying for the final of the 200 free, the 21-year-old Frank- lin couldn't pull off the gruel- ing double. She finished nearly a body length behind winner Olivia Smoliga and runner-up Kathleen Baker, who will represent the U.S. in what was once Franklin's signa- ture event. Franklin was nearly 2 seconds off her winning time in London, touchingin1minute,0.24seconds. Smoliga won in 59.02 seconds, fol- lowed by Baker at 59.29. "It's going to be really hard not to be in that (event) this summer," Franklin said. US SWIM TRIALS Franklin, Lochte struggle against rising stars By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press AKRON, OHIO For the longest time, golf's biggest headache in preparing for a return to the Olympics was getting a new course built in Rio de Janeiro. That seems like a nuisance compared with its next major hurdle. Who's going to play? Ten eligible players over the last two months have pulled out of the Olympics, six of the specif- ically citing concerns about the Zika virus. The last week alone was particularly devastating to a sport wanting to make a good impression after being gone from the games for 112 years. Rory McIlroy, a four-time ma- jor champion with the broad- est global appeal among young stars, was the most prominent player to withdraw. That was until Tuesday when Jason Day, the No. 1 player in the world, said he would not be going. Shane Lowry and Branden Grace are planning to start fam- ilies and will stay home because of Zika. That's four players from the top 25 who won't be in Rio, and dread that more might follow. One of them might be Jordan Spieth, who described his Olym- pic position Tuesday as "uncer- tain." "I've always been excited about the possible opportunity, but there's quite a few different factors that would turn some- body away from going. It's not just one, there's quite a few fac- tors," Spieth said, mentioning Zika, security and reports of vi- olence. The International Golf Fed- eration stopped responding to each withdrawal because it was repeating the same statement: It is disappointed, but under- stands that each player has to decide on his own. "Unfortunately with what's going on with Brazil and Rio with the Zika virus, there's a small chance it could happen, and I just can't put my family through that, especially with the future children we're looking at having," Day said. While the sport is assured a spot in 2020 in Tokyo, the In- ternational Olympic Committee will vote next year to decide if golf stays longer than that. And it doesn't help when there's an All-Star roster of players who won't be there for whatever rea- sons. ZIKA Go lf b ac k in t he Olympics, but for how long? Michael Phelps swims in the men's 200-meter butterfly preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday in Omaha, Nebraska. 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