Wichita State announced Thursday afternoon that athletic director Darron Boatright has received a three-year contract extension. He will continue to make his $200,000 annual salary through June 30, 2022.
Boatright’s biggest achievement to date since becoming head of the athletic department in the spring of 2015 is guiding WSU through its transition from leaving the Missouri Valley Conference to join the American Athletic Conference. The Eagle learned earlier this week that WSU opted to pay a one-time lump sum fee of $2.5 million to join the AAC one year before the original proposal, which would have introduced WSU to the conference next season with the university making $500,000 payments for five years.