Gophers volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon agrees to contract extension

McCutcheon new deal will keep him with the Gophers through the 2025 season, pending Board of Regents approval.

December 14, 2021 at 9:29PM
Gophers coach Hugh McCutcheon (Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Gophers volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him with the team through 2025 season, pending Board of Regents approval.

According to regents documents, the new deal would pay McCutcheon $515,000 for the recently completed season and $525,000 for next season with continued salary increases up to $565,000 in 2025.

McCutcheon's previous deal, signed in 2019, also called for him to make $515,000 this season, counting his base pay, supplemental pay and retention bonus. That deal covered four seasons, while the new one covers five seasons.

The Gophers finished 23-9 this season, making the NCAA regional final but losing to Wisconsin last Saturday for a trip to the Final Four.

Minnesota has been to Final Four three times since McCutcheon took over as their coach in 2012, going 26-9 in NCAA tournament games.

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Joe Christensen

Sports enterprise reporter

Joe Christensen, a Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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