Coach Daybreak Staley acquired a contract extension on Friday that South Carolina mentioned will make her the very best paid school ladies’s basketball coach of all time at a complete worth of about $25 million.
Staley is signed via the 2029-30 season, incomes $4 million a yr to begin with an annual $250,000 escalator. There’s additionally a $500,000 signing bonus, the college introduced.
“Daybreak Staley is a once-in-a-generation coach who has made an amazing influence on the College of South Carolina,” athletics director Jeremiah Donati mentioned in an announcement. “She has elevated the game of ladies’s basketball on the nationwide stage and right here on campus, and I’m excited that she can be representing our College for a few years to return.”
Staley has led South Carolina to 6 of the final 9 Closing Fours, together with every of the final 4. The Gamecocks gained titles in 2017, 2022 and 2024.
She is a five-time Coach of the Yr.
“What we’ve been capable of accomplish on the courtroom is a testomony to what can occur once you deliver collectively the suitable individuals from a staff perspective,” Staley mentioned within the assertion. “But in addition have the suitable dedication from the College, the Athletics Division and the neighborhood to offering that staff with the whole lot it must be profitable.”
Staley mentioned she seems “ahead to persevering with to be an instance of how an funding in ladies’s basketball is one that can repay for everybody.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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