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Report: Athletic director Warde Manuel signs contract extension with Michigan

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel will be sticking around Ann Arbor for the foreseeable future. Angelique Chengelis of The Detroit News reported on Monday morning that Manuel signed a contract extension with the University of Michigan in early February with an announcement that could come as soon as Monday.

Terms of the deal were not readily available as of this posting.

Am told Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, 52, signed a contract extension earlier this month. He was hired in March 2016 and his original deal expires on March 13. The new contract has not yet been formally announced -- would expect that as early as today

— angelique (@chengelis) February 15, 2021

Manuel, a former two-sport athlete at the university and football player under Bo Schembechler, was hired to run the athletic department at his alma mater in 2016 as the replacement to interim director Jim Hackett.