Pat Summitt, the legendary women’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, has become the first female college coach to break the $1-million salary barrier, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel

Ms. Summitt, who has won 913 games, the most of any Division I coach, will make $1.125-million for the 2006-7 season and an average of $1.3-million for the remaining five years of her contract.

Bruce Pearl, Tennessee’s men’s basketball coach, will make $1.1-million next season and $1.3-million a year for the following five years.

Ms. Summitt earned about $20,000 a year when she started coaching at Tennessee, in the 1970s, and as recently as 1997, she took home only $390,000, at the time a record for women in college sports (The Chronicle, August 8, 1997, and May 1, 1998).