She became head coach of the Hoyas earlier this year.
Tasha Butts, the head coach of Georgetown’s women’s basketball team and a two-time college national champion, has died after a two-year battle with breast cancer, the university’s athletic department announced Monday.Lee Reed, Georgetown’s athletics director, expressed sympathies to Butts’ loved ones following the tragic news of her passing.Georgetown women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts has died at 41 years old after a two-year battle with breast cancer.
Georgia Tech head coach Nell Fortner said Butts “was so instrumental to the success” of the school’s program. She played at Tennessee for her collegiate career under a coaching legend, the late Pat Summitt, and was part of teams that won back-to-back national championships in 2003 and 2004. Butts played professionally for the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, Charlotte Sting and Houston Comets, as well as overseas in Portugal and Israel.
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