Cori Close
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UCLA |
Conference | Pac-12 |
Record | 220–112 (.663) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Milpitas, California | July 29, 1971
Playing career | |
1989–1993 | UC Santa Barbara |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1993–1995 | UCLA (Asst.) |
1995–2004 | UC Santa Barbara (Asst./Assoc.) |
2004–2011 | Florida State (Assoc.) |
2011–present | UCLA |
Cori Rashel Close (born July 29, 1971)[1] is the current head women's basketball coach for the UCLA Bruins. She was hired by the Bruins in 2011.[2] Before UCLA, she spent time as an assistant coach at Florida State University and her alma mater, UC Santa Barbara. She was a star player for the UCSB Gauchos as she served as a team captain during the 1992 and 1993 seasons while leading them to the NCAA Tournament in each of those years.[3]
UC Santa Barbara statistics[]
YEAR | Team | GP | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RBG | APG | BPG | SPG | PPG |
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1989-90 | UC Santa Barbara | 13 | 43.2% | 27.3% | 65.2% | 2.85 | 2.69 | 0.00 | 2.08 | 6.31 |
1990-91 | UC Santa Barbara | 29 | 41.3% | 30.8% | 75.9% | 2.62 | 4.28 | 0.03 | 1.90 | 8.97 |
1991-92 | UC Santa Barbara | 32 | 48.8% | 31.9% | 77.5% | 2.28 | 5.84 | 0.06 | 1.88 | 12.69 |
1992-93 | UC Santa Barbara | 31 | 43.4% | 36.8% | 79.8% | 0.52 | 8.29 | 0.06 | 2.52 | 15.35 |
Career | 105 | 44.6% | 33.8% | 77.2% | 1.92 | 5.74 | 0.05 | 2.10 | 11.66 |
Head coaching record[]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UCLA Bruins (Pac-12 Conference) (2011–present) | |||||||||
2011–12 | UCLA | 14–16 | 9–9 | T-5th | |||||
2012–13 | UCLA | 26–8 | 14–4 | 3rd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
2013–14 | UCLA | 13–18 | 7–11 | 8th | |||||
2014–15 | UCLA | 19–18 | 8–10 | 6th | WNIT Champions | ||||
2015–16 | UCLA | 26–9 | 14–4 | T-3rd | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
2016–17 | UCLA | 25–9 | 13–5 | 4th | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
2017–18 | UCLA | 27–8 | 14–4 | T-3rd | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
2018–19 | UCLA | 22–13 | 12–6 | 4th | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
2019–20 | UCLA | 26–5 | 14-4 | T-2nd | NCAA Tournament CANCELLED | ||||
2020–21 | UCLA | 17–6 | 12–4 | 3rd | NCAA Round of 32 | ||||
2021–22 | UCLA | 5–3 | 0–0 | ||||||
UCLA: | 220–113 (.661) | 115–63 (.646) | |||||||
Total: | 220–113 (.661) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Awards and honors[]
- March 23, 2016 – Close was named the 2016 United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division I Region 5 Coach of the Year
- March 6, 2019 – Close voted Pac-12 Coach of the Year by Pac-12 women’s basketball media members[9]
References[]
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 30 Sep 2015.
- ^ "Cori Close is introduced as UCLA women's basketball coach". Los Angeles Times. 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "FINAL 1990 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS REPORT" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "FINAL 1991 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICSREPORT" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "FINAL 1992 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS REPORT" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "FINAL 1993 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS REPORT" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Cori Close Awarded Media Pac-12 Coach of the Year".
- 1971 births
- Living people
- American women's basketball coaches
- Basketball coaches from California
- Florida State Seminoles women's basketball coaches
- People from Milpitas, California
- Sportspeople from Santa Clara County, California
- UCLA Bruins women's basketball coaches
- UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's basketball coaches
- UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's basketball players
- American basketball coach stubs