Tommie Johnson makes his debut on the Colorado College staff after spending the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Cheyenne Mountain High School, where he was a women’s assistant coach for two years before joining the men’s staff as an assistant and head junior varsity coach for the 2005-06 campaign. Johnson will be responsible for local recruiting, on-court instruction, as well as practice and game preparation.
Johnson began his collegiate career as a point guard at Otero Junior College and helped the team to back-to-back South Region IX championships in 1999 and 2000. He transferred to CU-Colorado Springs for his final two seasons and helped lead the Mountain Lions to their first-ever RMAC Tournament appearance in 2000.
Originally from Dallas, Texas, Johnson started his prep career playing football and basketball at Ellison High School in Killeen, Texas, and played one year at Ft. Knox High School in Ft. Knox, Ky.
Johnson, who works for Hewlett Packard Corporation, is active in summer basketball as the head coach of the girls Colorado Bounce club team from 2002-2005 and for the Colorado Force II boy’s team from 2005 – 2007.
Johnson and his wife, Africa, are the proud parents of daughter, Tomia.
