Anne Dennis Ragsdale — also known to friends as AnDe — is the 25-year-old wife to Tyler Summitt, the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball coach. Summit stepped down from his coaching position yesterday after it was reported that he had inappropriate relations with one of the players. He had been working there for two seasons with a 31-30 record.
In a statement released by the school Thursday, Summitt said:
It is with great regret that I resign from my position as head coach of the women’s basketball program at Louisiana Tech University. I am profoundly disappointed in myself for engaging in a relationship that has negatively affected the people I love, respect and care about the most. My hope, plans and prayers are to repair those relationships. I am appreciative of the opportunity I was given to coach at Louisiana Tech. I am heartbroken that my time has ended in Ruston, but because of my respect for the institution, it is best that I resign. I am hopeful the media and the public will respect the privacy of my family and me as we deal with this difficult situation I have caused.
SB Nation is reporting that Summitt impregnated the girl he had an affair with. Summitt was hired in 2013 when he was just 23-years-old.
Rumors have surfaced that he had a relationship with Brooke Pumroy, who also played at Marquette University where Summitt was an assistant coach.
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Tyler and AnDe were high school sweethearts and married in 2013, after she graduated from Wisconsin’s Marquette University and attained a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. She also holds a degree in kinesiology from the University of Tennessee.
The couple is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee and currently reside in Ruston, Louisiana, where Louisiana Tech is located. They do not have any children.
