UTSA names assistant coach for men's basketball
(July 15, 2002)--Brandon Johnson has been named assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio it was announced by head coach Tim Carter.
Johnson comes to UTSA with 10 years of coaching experience at every college level and high school, with his last stop as head coach at Atlanta (Ga.) Technical College in 2001-02, where he was in the process of developing the new men's basketball program at the college. Prior to that he was an assistant coach at Jacksonville State (Ala.) University from 1998 through 2001; assistant at Clayton College & State University in Morrow, Ga. in 1997-98; and assistant at Atlanta Metropolitan College in 1996-97. He started his coaching career in 1992 at Atlanta's Frederick Douglass High School as an assistant.
He is a 1997 graduate of Georgia State University with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology. Johnson went on to earn a master of science degree in general administration from Central Michigan University in 2002.
Johnson has numerous camp/clinic teaching experiences to his credit, including working at Pete Newell's Big Man Camp in Hawaii in 2001; coaching with the New Zealand National Team in 2000; and working at basketball schools for Tubby Smith at Kentucky in 1998 and Georgia in 1996, Eddie Fogler's at South Carolina in 1997 and 1998, Bobby Cremins' at Georgia Tech from 1992 through 1998, Bob Knight's at Indiana in 1993 and 1997, Tom Izzo's at Michigan State in 1996, Jud Heathcote's at Michigan State in 1994, and Randy Ayers' at Ohio State University in 1993.
Johnson joins Carter's staff at UTSA that includes fellow assistants Owen Miller and Lloyd Williams. He replaces Roland Ware, who recently left his position to become assistant coach at the University of Central Oklahoma.
"Brandon's addition is important to the continuity we have been able to develop with our basketball program," said Carter, who is beginning his school-record eighth year as head coach at UTSA. "My staff has been a big part of what we have accomplished so far, and I feel Brandon brings with him a great deal of experience and knowledge which should fit very nicely into our expectations for the future."
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