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Georgetown women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts died 23 October 2023, with the news being confirmed on social media.
Fans and fellow members of the WNBA community rushed to pay tribute to the basketball coach after her sad passing, with many questioning her cause of death.
What was Tasha Butts ’s cause of death?
Tasha Butts passed away on Monday after a brave two-year battle with breast cancer.
Butts was diagnosed with advanced advanced stage metastatic breast cancer in 2021 and her diagnosis inspired the Tasha Tough campaign, which has brought awareness and raised money to bring quality care to women who can’t afford it through the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
Who was Tasha Butts?
Tasha Butts was an American basketball player from Milledgeville, Georgia, and previously the head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas women’s basketball team.
Butts was announced as the 11th head coach at Georgetown University on April 11, 2023 after a long coaching and professional WNBA career.
She served four years at Georgia Tech under head coach Nell Fortner, arriving in April 2019 as an assistant coach.
She was promoted to associate head coach in April 2021.
In four years with the Yellow Jackets, Butts helped guide Georgia Tech to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, two 20-plus win campaigns, nine wins over ranked opponents and the program’s highest outright Atlantic Coast Conference finish in program history at No. 3 in 2021.
During the 2021-22 season, Georgia Tech spent 14 weeks in the national rankings, climbing as high as No. 11 in the Associated Press poll.
The Yellow Jackets recorded a marquee win in 2021 when they defeated No. 3/2 UConn, 57-44, in McCamish Pavilion, snapping the Huskies’ 240-game winning streak against unranked opponents. The win marked Tech’s first over a top-three opponent since 2009.
The Yellow Jackets capped the season by making their second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
Butts helped Georgia Tech to a 2020-21 season meant for the record books as the Yellow Jackets made their 10th overall NCAA Tournament appearance and advanced to the Sweet 16 for just the second time in program history.
The Yellow Jackets finished third in the ACC to earn the program’s highest seeding in the ACC Tournament at No. 3.
Off the court, Butts was selected to the ABIS Women’s Basketball Black College Coaches Watch List in 2023 and was the recipient of the 2023 Giant Steps Award as an individual who has shown courage, heroism, triumph amid adversity and community activism through the power of sport.
