Tasha Butts, who was hired by Georgetown in April, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021.
Georgetown University announced Thursday that women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts is stepping away from the team to “focus on her health in her ongoing battle against breast cancer.”
Butts, 41, was diagnosed in November 2021 with what she described at the time as an advanced stage of breast cancer. Butts, then an associate head coach at Georgia Tech, wasGeorgetown said that associate head coach Darnell Haney will lead the team while Butts is away. Last year, Butts relinquished some of her duties on Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner’s staff to concentrate on her medical situation. Around that time, the Yellow Jackets embarked on a “Tasha Tough” campaign to benefit the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, which helps underserved women battling the disease.last year. “I’ve always had to fight for something. And that’s just the mentality that I wake up with every day now, is that my treatment is a part of my life. My medication is a part of my life now.
“I’m elated that I will have the opportunity to mentor, develop and coach these young women,” she said at the time in a statement. “ … I am super excited about this new journey, it’s going to be an amazing ride and we will do this together!” “Since her hiring in April, Tasha has proven to be a coach full of passion and drive,” Georgetown’s director of intercollegiate athletics, Lee Reed, said Thursday in a statement. “As she battles this terrible disease, she continues to be an inspiration to our student-athletes, coaches and staff, and we will support her in this fight. Her community stretches from coast-to-coast, and I know that now, more than ever, we will band together to be Tasha Tough.
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Georgetown women's hoops coach Tasha Butts steps away to focus on ongoing battle with breast cancerGeorgetown women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts is taking time away from the team to focus on her health in her ongoing battle against breast cancer the school announced.
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