College of Connecticut athletic director David Benedict introduced Friday that the college’s famed ladies’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma is receiving a contract extension by the 2024-2025 season. Auriemma, 67, will make $2.8 million below the phrases of the deal, and that determine will improve by $100,000 per yr. The contract consists of choices for 2 one-year extensions that would want mutual settlement.

UConn has gained 11 nationwide titles below Auriemma’s route, with its final coming in 2016. This system has appeared in 13 straight Last Fours below his management and has been to 21 whole Last Fours in Auriemma’s 36-year tenure.

“I want to thank David Benedict and the College of Connecticut management for his or her continued dedication to me and the ladies’s basketball program,” Auriemma stated. “UConn has been nice to me for the final 36 years and I sit up for being right here for at the least just a few extra years. I feel the long run for our program, and UConn Athletics, is thrilling.”

Although it has been 5 years for the reason that program’s final nationwide title, which is a comparatively lengthy drought by Auriemma’s historic requirements, UConn is a staggering 164-10 throughout that stretch and excellent in convention play (4 seasons within the AAC and one within the Massive East). UConn additionally continues to recruit at an elite stage that implies its place as the game’s premier program stays protected.

“Geno Auriemma has meant a lot to the College of Connecticut, and to our complete state, for the final 36 years,” Benedict stated. “This system that Geno has constructed is the gold commonplace in faculty athletics and I am thrilled that he’ll proceed to steer it for the foreseeable future.”