BETHANY – Brad Johnson has been named the brand new head males’s basketball coach at Bethany School and marks the twenty ninth head coach in program historical past.

“We’re excited to welcome Brad to the Bethany School household. It was essential to discover a coach who was dedicated to main our males’s basketball program again to PAC success whereas embracing the Bethany group as an entire,” says Director of Athletics Brian Sansom. “Brad’s enthusiasm and dedication to his student-athletes have been obvious in the course of the interview course of, and our program will profit from his developmental method. I’m assured that Brad will deliver again the Bethany School males’s basketball custom of excellence each on the court docket and within the classroom within the close to future.”

Johnson involves Bethany after a two-year stint at Nebraska Wesleyan. Previous to Nebraska Wesleyan, Johnson spent three years at Seton Hill, an NCAA Division II member. In his first two seasons at SHU, the Griffins superior to the PSAC Event as soon as. The workforce additionally had three All-PSAC performers.

Earlier than that, Johnson spent three seasons with the Frostburg State College males’s basketball program. In his first season at Frostburg State, he served as a graduate assistant coach earlier than being named the highest assistant coach for his last two years with this system.

In 2017-18, Johnson helped the Bobcats to eleven wins, this system’s finest season report for the reason that 2011-12 season. Moreover, it was the primary time in 5 seasons that the Bobcats made it to the CAC match. Johnson coached two CAC All-Convention gamers and two gamers who have been a part of Johnson’s first recruiting class that made contributions to the workforce’s success.

In 2016-17, Johnson helped the Bobcats to steer the nation in blocks per recreation (5.8) and completed seventh nationally in whole blocks (146). The Bobcats additionally completed seventeenth in Division III in field-goal share protection (39.8), nineteenth in offensive rebounds per recreation (14.6), and twenty fifth in whole rebounds per recreation (42.24). The Bobcats capped the season by upsetting No. 11 Salisbury 86-80 in extra time on senior day.

In his first season with the Bobcats, he helped the workforce to seven wins, together with 5 Capital Athletic Convention victories over Mary Washington, Marymount (Va.), St. Mary’s (Md.), and York (Pa.). Johnson helped the Bobcats end first within the CAC in rebounds (38.4) and blocks (5.5). FSU additionally completed fifth within the CAC in three-pointers (162) and fourth in steals (7.4).

Johnson, a 2015 graduate of Baldwin Wallace College with a bachelor’s diploma in finance and a minor in athletic teaching, went to Frostburg State College after serving as a scholar assistant coach at BW for 4 years. He oversaw ability growth and ball dealing with drills, and likewise helped gamers with personal, particular person exercises. Johnson furthered his diploma at Frostburg State College, the place he earned a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration.

Johnson additionally spent six seasons as a head AAU basketball coach (2011-2016) and in 2012, he based his personal AAU program – the North Coast Runnin’ Rebels. As a head coach and director, he helped develop athletes in fourth by eleventh grades.

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