Grand Canyon Opens Museum to Honor Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo has been an owner of the Phoenix Suns, Arizona Diamondbacks and Phoenix Mercury. He has been an owner of indoor soccer and football teams, was executive director of USA Basketball and has been chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2009.
The Jerry Colangelo Museum. (photo courtesy GCU Athletics)
In recent years, the successful businessman has become involved with Grand Canyon University, first by building the business school that now bears his name then by guiding the basketball program into Division I.
For his contributions to the school and beyond, Grand Canyon has created the Jerry Colangelo Museum, a celebration of his successful and charitable life. The museum opened this week inside the school’s on-campus basketball practice facility.
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