Coach Dawn Staley has received a contract extension that South Carolina said will make her the highest paid college women’s basketball coach of all-time at a total value of about $25 million.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has been given a new contract that made her the highest paid coach in the history of women's college basketball.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Dawn Staley won’t be leaving Columbia anytime soon. The Gamecocks women’s basketball coach signed a record setting extension on Friday morning that will keep her signed with the school through the 2029-30 season and make her the highest paid coach in the history of the sport.

Staley has not been publicly connected to any WNBA head coaching jobs. In NBA history, no woman has ever served as a full-time head coach. Lisa Boyer, a current USC assistant coach, was the first woman to hold any sort of coaching position in the NBA, assisting the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001-02.

South Carolina's Dawn Staley signed a contract extension Friday that makes her the highest-paid coach in women's college basketball history.

South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley will receive another honor to her collection of accomplishments.

Dawn Staley is arguably college basketball's brightest mind. Now, she's being paid like it. The longtime South Carolina coach agreed to a five-year contract extension that will see her make more money than any women's college basketball coach in history,