Staley, who has led the Gamecocks to three national championships, is now the highest-paid coach in women's basketball history after signing a $25.25 million deal.

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.

Dawn Staley is now the highest-paid women’s basketball coach in the country. South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved new contract extension for Staley on Friday that will pay her $4 million a season. Staley’s new annual salary marks an $800,000 raise from the $3.2 million she was making this season.

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

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's head women's basketball coach Dawn Staley signed a contract extension to stay with the team until 2030.

South Carolina coach was previously No. 3 behind LSU's Kim Mulkey and UConn's Geno Auriemma at $3.1 million/year.

The University of South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved a contract extension for women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley on Friday. We've now learned the name of the man who passed away in a house fire early this morning.

South Carolina's head women's basketball coach Dawn Staley signed a contract extension to stay with the team until 2030.

Ever since becoming the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team's head coach in 2008, Dawn Staley has turned the program into a dynasty that perenniall