Illinois and head coach Tyra Perry have agreed to a two-year contract extension that will run through the 2024 season.
The pact extends the end of Perry’s original deal, which she signed in the fall of 2017 and that was scheduled to run through 2022.
Perry took over the Illinois program in 2015, becoming just the second head coach in Fighting Illini program history. She immediately guided the program to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA tournament, reaching the Regional round in 2016 and 2017 and had led the Fighting Illini to more than thirty-five wins a season in each of her first three years in Champaign.
Before taking the reins at Illinois, Perry was the head coach at Ball State for a pair of seasons, earning MAC Coach of the Year honors and leading that program to the NCAA tournament during her tenure. She also served as the head coach at Western Kentucky and Birmingham-Southern.
An LSU alum, Perry earned all-region and all-state honors during her tenure as a Tiger after spending the first half of her playing career at Nicholls State.
