Green Bay women's basketball coach Kayla Karius has been rewarded for her successful first season managing her alma mater with a new contract.
Over the weekend, Karius agreed to a contract extension that will keep her in Green Bay through the 2030-31 season. Scott Venci from the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that the contract will pay her a base salary of $265,000 per season. Karius’ annual salary is made up of a $215,000 base salary in addition to $50,000 through the UW-Green Bay Foundation. That will keep her ahead of her men's counterpart, Doug Gottlieb, a distinction not many universities and colleges can boast of when it comes to their men's and women's basketball programs.
Karius, in her return to her alma mater, engineered the program's 48th consecutive winning season, thanks in part to its current 22-game winning streak. The Phoenix continued to win off the court this weekend, signing Carley Duffney for her final collegiate season. She just wrapped up her senior season at South Dakota, where she played under Karius for two seasons. She previously cut her teeth at Green Bay Preble, where she was the conference player of the year as a junior.
