Tyler Summitt Early Life, Career, Business, Relationship, Divorce

Tyler Summitt is the only son of the late Pat Summitt who served as the head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols teams for a long time. Sadly, Tyler is now in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, even though he’s done his best to follow in his mother’s footsteps by continuing his coaching career.

Eventually, Summitt had to end his coaching career in 2016. He regretted and struggled to cope with the fact that he was blacking out his mother’s legacy and living his life away from basketball and as much as projectors possible.

TYLER SUMMITT EARLY LIFE

Ross Tyler Summitt was born on September 21, 1990 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the unmarried child of the late Pat Summit and her ex-husband RB Summitt, II. Summitt gravitated towards basketball as he often followed his mother to practice and travel for games and more. He played high school basketball with his mom as a coach and was really good at it. He returned to playing while in college at the University of Tennessee for a short time as he only played two seasons. But he didn’t give up basketball, he only focused on following in his mother’s footsteps to become a head coach.

TYLER SUMMITT CAREER

Summitt landed the assistant position on the women’s basketball team led by Terri Mitchel at Marquette University, which was the first step towards his career as a professional coach. After two years, he got his first head coaching job at Lousiana Tech University in April 2014. Additionally, Tyler completed a Masters in Leadership at Marquette.

Summitt worked very hard for his job, but due to a mistake, his life took a complete turn. It cost him his wife and his career ($175,000/year). Entering into an inappropriate relationship with his player was the mistake that defined his fate. Also, he must have lost his mum just after two months because she was suffering from Alzheimer’s, depressing a lot? After his shameful resignation, he returned to Tennessee to pursue master’s-level studies, earning his MBA in 2017.

TYLER SUMMITT WIFE, DIVORCE, BUSINESS

Tyler Summitt was married to his high school sweetheart Anne Dennis Ragsdale in June 2013. They attended the same school. Anne now holds a degree in kinesiology (study of the mechanics of body movement) from Tennessee and a doctorate in physical therapy from Marquette University. After hearing her husband’s confession about his affair, she could not insult. So she filed for divorce and their marriage officially ended in June 2017.

After the news of his resignation was made public, another scandal spread Tyler Summit made the girl pregnant . The girl he had an affair with. After a few inspections, there were two suspects Brooke Pumroy and Ashley Santos whom Tyler trained at Marquette, as they both moved in with him at Louisiana Tech. However, the pregnancy rumor was never confirmed.