Last week, Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari announced he would be working with the John McLendon Foundation to launch the Minority Leadership Initiative, which provides minorities with more career opportunities in college athletics.
Today, the John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation announced that Calipari has endowed a McLendon Minority Leadership Initiative Future Leader position at North Carolina Central University, where the McLendon Foundation’s namesake, John B. McLendon, coached from 1941–52
“North Carolina Central University is where Coach McLendon got his first opportunity at the collegiate level,” Calipari said in a press release. “I’m grateful to be able to honor his legacy by helping provide that same opportunity to a Future Leader on NCCU’s campus.