Top Collegiate Coach ‘Dependent’ Upon Her ‘Relationship’ With Christ
By Movieguide® Contributor
UCLA Women’s Basketball coach, Cori Close, is one of the top coaches in all of women’s basketball.
Before Sunday’s Big Ten Championship game, UCLA was 29-2.
Going into the second half of the championship game, it looked as if UCLA would add another loss to their record.
“I really wondered what their eyes were going to look like when I went into the locker room at halftime,” Close said in a postgame press conference. “And they were poised and determined. They knew they had not played their best, and they didn’t do the things we needed to do, but they still believed they could turn it.”
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After the game, Close told the press, “Thankful and humbled to watch them persevere, to grow, to find ways to win, to be committed to selflessness. Just so grateful.
“I just was praying this morning; I was like, ‘I just want to see them be the best version of themselves for each other,’ and that’s what I got to see today, is them just finding a way, in unpredictable ways,” she added. “… I just really want to say thank you to all the people who helped us get here. My staff, incredible, selfless, hard working, mission minded, incredible. Then just all the people, just for me personally that I wouldn’t be sitting in this chair without.”
Close took the head coaching position at UCLA in 2011 and ever since then she has done all she can to lead by example and put Jesus first.
She told the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, “It isn’t as much about what I say as how I live and what I do. I want everyone I encounter to feel valued and loved whether they share my faith or not. I just want to enter their world and serve them and love them in a way that reflects what I’ve received from Jesus. I believe this is my ministry and what God has called me to.”
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