Kim Mulkey Net Worth & Salary

Kim Mulkey is an American college basketball coach and former player who has won numerous NCAA championships, including the Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.

Mulkey was one of the first girls in the U.S. to play organized basketball with boys and led her Hammond High School basketball team to four consecutive state championships. She was an All-American point guard at Louisiana Tech University, winning two national championships as a player and the inaugural winner of the women's version of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award.

In 1984, she represented the U.S. at the 1984 World Championships, where the team won six games but lost two against the Soviet Union. In 2000, Mulkey took over a Baylor program that had finished the 1999–2000 season 7–20 and last in the Big 12 Conference. The Lady Bears program won its first NCAA tournament bid in 2005, making her the first woman to win NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player and head coach.

Mulkey has been involved in the NCAA women's tournament every year except 1985 and 2003. In 2007, she signed a 10-year extension to remain Baylor's coach. In 2012, Mulkey made NCAA history by leading the Lady Bears to a perfect 40–0 season, the most wins in college basketball history, men or women.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mulkey advocated ending COVID-19 testing on tournament players despite the ongoing pandemic. She was announced as head coach at LSU on April 25, 2021, and won the NCAA National Championship for the first time as coach of LSU in 2023.

 Kim Mulkey Net Worth

Kim Mulkey has a net worth estimated to be about $12 million as of 2024. She is believed to have amassed her impressive net worth from her career as a professional college basketball coach for the women's basketball team at Louisiana State University.

Kim Mulkey Salary

Kim Mulkey was one of the highest-paid coaches when she signed her first contract, a lucrative $23.6 million eight-year contract that put her only behind Geno Auriemma of UConn.

Mulkey's historic ten-year, $36 million contract extension broke previous records and cemented her place as the highest-paid coach in women's basketball history.

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