Former San Diego State women’s basketball coach Beth Burns won her wrongful-termination trial against the university Wednesday, receiving a $3.35-million judgment from a San Diego Superior Court jury for whistle-blower retaliation after complaining about potential Title IX violations.
Burns was fired in April 2013, a month after her team won a school-record 27 games and nine months after SDSU granted her a contract extension through 2016-17 that paid her $220,000 a year plus benefits and bonuses. She was out of work for a year, then took a job as an assistant coach at USC for $150,000 a year.