When allowing cameras for the Fox Sports documentary You See L.A. into the lives of her players, UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close, who just led the Bruins to a national championship, tried to stick to the wisdom of one of the school’s guiding sports lights.
“I had the incredible privilege of being mentored by John Wooden,” Close said during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary event, “and one of the things he taught me is, one, you’re coaching people’s hearts, but two, he used to say, ‘If it’s not about teaching, mentoring, equipping for the next 40 years of their lives, it really doesn’t mean a whole lot.’ And so that’s the kind of program that we want to have.”
“I think what this documentary allows us to do is to show people that you can be courageously vulnerable,” she added. “You can care about
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