Dawn Staley

Education 
Staley went to high school at Dobbins Tech High school.Jim Brady Special to The,Washington Post. (1991, Mar 28). Staley quietly emerges as nation's best player: COLLEGES WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR DAWN STALEY'S VIRGINIA STATISTICS. The Washington Post (1974-) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/docview/140518968 She led them to 3 league championships. She won high school player of the year as a senior. She decided to go to University of Virginia because she could play immediately and for their reputation for developing point guards. She was one of six children the first person in her family to go to college.
 Career 
Staley was a basketball coach at Temple University. Her team at Temple won many games and got to play in the NCAA tournaments for eight years.

Staley came to coach at the University of South Carolina in the 2007-2008 season. The South Carolina women's basketball team was not very popular. Staley helped them win their first national championship in 2017. The team's really good season in 2020 was ended by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In 2021, Staley signed a seven-year contract with the South Carolina Gamecocks. She earns a $1 million US base salary. She will also receive $1.9 million US every subsequent year which will grow by $100,000 every year. She can also get up to $680,000 in incentive bonuses. If Staley leaves without reason, she would pay the school 5 million. If the school fired her without reason, they would owe her 3 million dollars. Staley believes that the 22.4 million dollars will help equalize women's and men's pay in basketball. She is now the highest paid black women's basketball coach, and one of the highest paid basketball coaches. Staley also passed Louisiana State University coach Kim Mulkey making her the highest paid coach in the Southeastern Conference.

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Category:1970 births
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Category:African-American basketball players
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Category:Basketball coaches
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Category:Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States
Category:Point guards
Category:Sportspeople from Philadelphia