5 months after main LSU to the nationwide championship, Kim Mulkey reportedly is ready to change into the highest-paid ladies’s school basketball trainer within the country.
Mulkey agreed to a 10-year, $32 million deal, the (Baton Rouge, Los angeles.) Recommend and ESPN reported Wednesday night time.
The contract reportedly might be finalized through the LSU Board of Supervisors at a Friday assembly.
Mulkey had a freelance that used to be set to pay her a mean of $2.5 million consistent with 12 months via 2029, consistent with the Recommend. She would make a mean of $3.2 million beneath the pending deal, starting at $2.75 million and going as much as $3.65 million in 2033, the newspaper reported.
In keeping with ESPN, UConn trainer Geno Auriemma and South Carolina trainer First light Staley each make $3 million consistent with 12 months.
Mulkey, 61, gained 3 nationwide championships all through her time as the top trainer at Baylor. She took over at LSU for the 2021-22 season, and after the Tigers exited in the second one spherical of the 2022 NCAA Event, they captured the championship this 12 months.
In two seasons at LSU, Mulkey has a 60-8 document, following her 632-104 mark at Baylor.
Mulkey used to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Repute in 2020 — twenty years after she used to be inducted into the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Repute.
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