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Head Coach Johnny
Johnson
 Having
guided three national champion wrestlers over the past five years and
taken 27 wrestlers to the national meet in his eight years at UW-Stevens Point,
Johnny Johnson begins his ninth season as the Pointers� head coach and his
13th year overall in the UW-Stevens Point program in 2006-07.
Johnson coached three-time
national finalist Yan White, who won the 2002 national title, and
three-time All-American and 2003 national champion Cody Koenig. He also worked with national
champion Brad Marten during the 2003 season as the Pointers
achieved a school record third place finish at the national meet.
Johnson took three wrestlers
to the national meet in 2006 and helped all three achieve All-American
honors. Overall, Johnson has trained 16 All-American performances,
including 13 in the last four years. He has taken wrestlers to the national meet in
every one of his eight seasons.
Johnson also worked closely with 2004 Olympic
qualifier and former UW-Stevens Point assistant coach Dennis Hall, joining him in
the corner during the Olympic trials and making the trip to Athens,
Greece.
UW-Stevens Point placed 11th
at the national meet in 2005-06, marking its fourth straight top 11 finish. The Pointers have
also finished among the top three
teams in the competitive Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
every season during Johnson's tenure, including a second place performance
the past four seasons. In 2003-04, the Pointers
finished undefeated in WIAC dual meets for the first time since 1993.
Prior to becoming head coach,
Johnson served as the Pointers� top assistant and the state coach for the
Wisconsin Wrestling Federation. Johnson�s strong technical background is
the cornerstone to his coaching philosophy.
Before coming to UW-Stevens
Point, Johnson served as an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota
for eight seasons. There he was instrumental in developing 18
All-Americans, 10 Big Ten Champions, and a No. 1 dual team ranking in
1994.
Johnson has worked with some of
the nation�s top coaches at every level, including Stan Abel at Oklahoma,
J. Robinson at Minnesota, and Marty Loy at UW-Stevens Point.
Johnson wrestled collegiately
at the University of Oklahoma, where he was a two-time Division I
All-American for the Sooners while compiling 135 wins over four seasons
and a redshirt year. After college, he gained considerable international
experience as a member of three U.S. National teams and an alternate to
the 1988 U.S. Olympic squad.
Having completed his Bachelor�s
degree in Journalism at Oklahoma and his Master�s in Education at
UW-Stevens Point, Johnson teaches Adventure Education in the School of
Health, Exercise Science and Athletics at UW-Stevens Point and coordinates
Adventure Education minor, which he helped developed for the school of
HESA.
A native of Midwest City,
Okla., Johnny and his wife, Julie, have three children � son, Jesse, and
daughters, Taylor and Gabrialla. They reside in Plover.
Coach Johnson can be reached at jjohnson@uwsp.edu
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