Cori Close receives UCLA Anderson’s John Wooden Global Leadership Award

LOS ANGELES – The Michael Price Family UCLA Women’s Head Basketball Coach Cori Close, who earlier this year led the program to its first NCAA championship, was honored Oct. 8 as the newest recipient of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s prestigious John Wooden Global Leadership Award. The award, presented at a gala dinner at Pauley Pavilion attended by more than 500 guests, recognized Close’s leadership on and off the court, her commitment to student-athletes’ development as people and her dedication to a values-based coaching philosophy, shaped in part by her personal relationship with the late Coach Wooden. “We are…