Georgetown ladies’s basketball coach Tasha Butts, 41, has died after being recognized two years in the past with advanced-stage metastatic breast most cancers, Georgetown introduced Monday.
Georgetown employed Butts final April after nearly 20 years as an assistant coach, spanning a number of conferences. She spent 4 seasons as an assistant and affiliate head coach at Georgia Tech, eight seasons as an assistant at LSU, three seasons as an assistant at UCLA and a season at Duquesne.
“The information of Tasha’s passing is extremely unhappy,” Georgia Tech coach Nell Fortner stated in a launch. “Tasha was so instrumental to the success of this program. What she did as a member of this teaching workers can’t be undervalued. She was robust — robust on her children, robust in her expectations, however but she was mushy beneath when gamers wanted her to be there for them, and he or she was all the time there for them. We’re extremely unhappy this present day has come. She battled from the day of her analysis. We’re pleased with her combat to the tip. We are going to perpetually love Tasha. She is going to perpetually be missed.”
As a participant, Butts had a formidable profession as a guard at Tennessee enjoying for Corridor of Fame coach Pat Summitt. She left Tennessee ranked fourth all-time in video games performed (141), received 4 SEC regular-season titles and helped the Girl Vols get to 2 nationwide title video games.
Butts was a coach who was universally revered and preferred on the highest ranges of girls’s basketball. After Butts had stepped away from teaching final month, many ladies’s school applications — spanning a number of conferences and ranges — participated within the Tasha Powerful marketing campaign to lift funds for the Kay Yow Most cancers Fund, particularly elevating cash for girls who couldn’t afford high quality well being care.
Girl Vols are #TashaTough!
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— Girl Vols Basketball (@LadyVol_Hoops) October 17, 2023
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— Georgetown WBB (@GeorgetownWBB) October 17, 2023
Georgetown introduced that Butts is survived by her dad and mom Spencer, Sr. and Evelyn, her brother Spencer, Jr. and her nephew Marquis.
The information of Butts’ passing will hit the ladies’s basketball neighborhood particularly laborious as many proceed to mourn former Mississippi State coach and longtime assistant Nikki McCray-Penson, who died this summer time after being recognized with breast most cancers for a second time. On Sunday, South Carolina and Rutgers, two applications the place McCray-Penson had hung out as an assistant, performed in an exhibition recreation that raised cash for Within the Center, a company that gives help to those that are present process breast most cancers remedy.
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