Head Women's Lacrosse Coach Nichole Johnson

Bio

Nichole Johnson was hired as the Wittenberg's new women's lacrosse head coach in 2009. She resigned after two winning seasons with the Red & White to pursue other personal and professional opportunities.

In her first season at the helm, Johnson led the Tigers to the best start in program history, winning seven of their first eight games. Wittenberg finished 9-6 overall in 2010, the first time the Tigers had reached the nine-win plateau since 2001 and just the second time since winning 12 games in 1990. Johnson led the Tigers in a 9-6 overall in 2011 as well, and after the season Johnson was named NCAC Coach of the Year.

Johnson came to Wittenberg from Lynchburg College, where she served as an assistant coach for the last two years. While there, she helped the Hornets to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament each year. Six members of the 2009 team and three members of the 2008 team received All-ODAC honors.

A native of Pasadena, Md., Johnson graduated from Lynchburg in 2007 with a degree in psychology before earning a master's degree in educational leadership in 2009. In addition to her work on the sidelines during the collegiate season, Johnson has experience coaching at the Johns Hopkins Lacrosse Camp in 2008, 2009 and 2010, two years at the Nike Lacrosse Camp at Adrian College and one at the Ohio State Lacrosse Camp.

As a collegiate student-athlete, she earned four varsity letters in women's lacrosse while starting all 70 career games. In 2007, Johnson was one of four team captains, and she put an exclamation point on her collegiate career with first-team All-ODAC honors, second-team All-South Region honors and selection to the Virginia Sports Information Directors College Division All-State Team. In addition, Johnson earned second-team All-ODAC in 2005 and 2006 and second-team All-Chesapeake Region and all-state in 2005.

Johnson also represented the United States as a member of the US Athletes International Team that competed in a tournament in Prague, Czech Republic in 2005.