IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa and athletics director Gary Barta have agreed on a contract extension and raise. It will keep the school’s top sports administrator in his position through the 2023-24 academic year.

Barta’s previous deal was set to expire on June 30, 2021. The extension extended him through June 30, 2024.

The school increases Barta’s pay from $800,000 annually to $1 million from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. It bumps up to $1.05M a year beginning July 1 2021 through the end of the contact.

“Gary Barta has shown an unwavering commitment to the University of Iowa and to our key athletic principles of winning, graduating our athletes and operating with integrity. While I join all Hawkeyes in celebrating the incredible success we had this past year in Big Ten and national competition, I am most proud that under Gary’s leadership our student athletes competed at this elite level while also exceling in the classroom,” school president Bruce Harreld said in a university press release.

Herrald points out the more than 300 student-athletes earning Dean’s List and/or President’s List recognition, the more than 200 student-athletes named Academic All-Big Ten, and Iowa having a 90 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR).

“This is what collegiate athletics is all about and I’m glad we will have Gary Barta at the helm for many years to come!” he said in the release.

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Barta began in his current position in 2006. He replaced Bob Bowlsy, who went on to become athletics director at Stanford and now is the Big 12’s commissioner.

“I’m grateful to President Harreld and everyone at the University for the opportunity I have to work in a great environment at a world-class institution. Our student-athletes, coaches and staff are having incredible success. We have the best fans in the country and their support is truly appreciated. And, I believe the best is yet to come,” Barta said in the release.

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