Weber State University Athletics
Softball
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Tina Johnson is entering her fourth season as the head coach of the Wildcat softball team.
In each of her first three seasons, Johnson's teams have shown marked improvement as she has built the program from the ground up.
In 2012, her third season, the Wildcats improved by nine wins (21-32) over the previous year and set or tied 19 team and individual single-season and career records. Weber State finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference's Mountain Division, and senior Lyndsey Minnich was named as the PCSC's Mountain Division Player of the Year.
In 2011, the Wildcats improved by 10 wins from Johnson's first season, finishing with a 12-38 overall mark.
In 2010, the Wildcats went 2-48, suffering through the typical growing pains of the first season of a Division I collegiate athletic program.
She was named the head coach of the Weber State softball program in the summer of 2008. Johnson came to Weber State from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Johnson became the fourth coach in the history of Weber State softball and restarted the program that was dropped in 1983 after nine years of play.
Prior to joining Weber State, Johnson spent two seasons at Colorado College--taking over a program that historically struggled and building a strong foundation for athletic and academic success. Prior to her stint with the Tigers, she was the head coach at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill. for three seasons.
At Lake Forest, she led the program to three-straight Midwest Conference championships and put together a .641 winning percentage. She coached 11 All-Great Lakes Regional players, four Conference Players of the Year, two Conference Pitchers of the Year, 16 All-Conference players and 12 Academic All-Conference players. She also was honored with the 2006 Midwest Conference Coach of the Year award. Prior to Lake Forest, Johnson was at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where she was the head softball coach.
In addition to her collegiate career, Johnson spent several years coaching at the high school level and in the American Softball Association junior competitive ranks. She led her Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Missouri) team to a 4A State Championship in 1997. She was named the Missouri State Softball Coach of the Year and earned the Suburban West Softball Coach of the Year honor for three-consecutive seasons (’95-’97).
As a player, Johnson competed at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri and at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences in 1990. She earned her master’s degree in Educational Administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1993.
