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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The practice court for the UCLA women's basketball team will be named for Bruins great Ann Meyers Drysdale when the facility opens next year.
The university's athletic department said Friday that an anonymous donor made a "significant financial contribution" to the Mo Ostin Basketball Center project. As part of the gift, the donor requested that the practice court be named in Meyers Drysdale's honor.
Meyers Drysdale says she was "at a loss for words" when athletic director Dan Guerrero told her.
She helped lead the Bruins to the AIAW national championship in 1978 after becoming the first woman to receive a full athletic scholarship from the university.
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