South Georgia Technical School President Dr. John Watford introduced Ray S. Johnson has been named as the brand new assistant coach for the SGTC males’s intercollegiate basketball crew for the 2024-2025 season. He additionally will educate within the SGTC Sports activities & Health Administration educational program.
Johnson has served as a males’s basketball assistant coach at Tuskegee College in Tuskegee, AL, the place he targeting Participant Improvement/Energy and Conditioning and protection. He helped monitor the finances, journey, eligibility and all logistical maters in that position.
“We’re very lucky to have Johnson related to our faculty basketball program and instructing within the Sports activities and Health Administration program,” mentioned SGTC President Watford. “He has expertise on the collegiate stage and within the navy. I feel the expertise and data he brings to the school and to the athletic program will likely be a particular asset.”
Previous to becoming a member of Tuskegee College, Johnson additionally served as an assistant males’s basketball coach with Columbus State College in Columbus, GA and at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu, HI. He labored as an Related Head Coach for the Males’s Basketball program for All Military Sports activities at Fort Sam in Houston, Texas for 4 years. He’s retired from the US Military.
Different positions embody working with males’s basketball packages at Indiana College SE in New Albany, IN; Augusta State College in Augusta, GA; US Military Pacific at Camp Humphrey and the Virginia Commonwealth College in Richmond, VA.
Because the SGTC assistant coach for the lads’s intercollegiate basketball crew and a Sports activities and Health Administration Teacher, Johnson’s duties will embody classroom instruction, teaching, recruiting, scheduling, advertising, clerical, budgeting, supervision of crew and workers, journey and coaching and different duties as assigned. Fifty % of his duties will likely be devoted to instruction or different duties based mostly on his credentials and work expertise.
He’ll report back to SGTC Vice President of Educational Affairs Julie Partain, Athletic Director Jason Carpenter, and Jets Head Basketball coach Chris Ballauer.
Johnson holds a Bachelors of Science in Administration from the College of Phoenix and a Grasp’s in Teaching & Sports activities Administration from Concordia College in Irvine, CA.
The Jets had been 18 – 12 in 2023 – 2024 and superior to the semi-finals of the NJCAA Area XVII event. The Jets are 48 – 46 underneath head coach Chris Ballauer. They certified for the Nationwide Junior School Athletic Affiliation (NJCAA) nationwide event within the 2021 – 2022 season in his first season as head coach. That yr, the Jets gained the GCAA Convention Event by upsetting Georgia Highlands 78 – 70 in time beyond regulation to earn the proper to advance to the NJCAA Nationwide Event in Hutchinson, KS for the third time within the historical past of this system. The Jets misplaced to the South Plains Texans of Texas within the first spherical of the nationwide event. They completed the season with a 22 – 12 report and had been ranked nineteenth within the nation.