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UCLA hires Cori Close as women’s hoops coach

The Columbian
Published: April 21, 2011, 12:00am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA has hired Cori Close as its new women’s basketball coach, giving the former Bruins assistant her first head coaching job.

Close’s hiring was announced at a campus news conference on Thursday.

She spent the last seven seasons as an assistant at Florida State. Close was a Bruins assistant in 1994 and ’95.

Before moving to Florida State, Close was an assistant from 1995-04 at UC Santa Barbara, where she played college basketball before graduating in 1993.

Close succeeds Nikki Caldwell, who resigned to take the LSU job earlier this month.

Under Caldwell, UCLA went 72-26, reaching the NCAA tournament twice. She was the Pac-10 coach of the year in 2010, when the Bruins reached the second round of the NCAA tournament and finished 25-9.

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