Mark Johnson joined the Emory University track and field program
as assistant coach in September of 2011. His duties
primarily consist of coaching the vertical jumps and throws while
assisting with the Eagles' multi-event athletes.
Johnson’s most recent coaching stint was at Sandia
Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexcio, where he was
responsible for the boys and girls throws and horizontal
jumps. He had nine state qualifiers representing every event
and coached one state champion.
Johnson served as an assistant track and field coach for the
men’s and women’s programs at Williams College in
2007-08, working with the multi-events, pole vault and high jump
performers. He helped coach both teams to New England and
NESCAC championships and had a pair of his athletes garner All-New
England and All-NESCAC acclaim.
Prior to his stint at Williams, Johnson was an assistant coach at
the University of New Mexico for two seasons (2005-06 and 2006-07)
where he designed and implemented workouts for multi-events and all
jumps. He coached a total of 10 NCAA Championships qualifiers
and mentored one All-American.
As an athlete, Johnson enjoyed a stellar career at the University
of New Mexico. He won the Mountain West Conference titles in
both the decathlon (2002) and heptathlon (2004) and finished 15th
in the decathlon at the 2004 NCAA Championships, scoring just shy
of his personal best of 7,325 points. A five-time all-MWC
honoree, Johnson also qualified for the 2004 NCAA Midwest Regional
Championships in the pole vault, finishing ninth with a career-best
vault of 16-05.25.
He was a two-year letterwinner at goalkeeper for the UNM men's soccer team, appearing in six games from 2000-01. He and skier Stian Erikson were the first two athletes in UNM history to appear at the NCAA Championships in two different sports. The two were teammates on the 2001 men's soccer team which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Johnson earned First-Team Academic All-American honors for the Lobos in 2004. The Fontana, Wisconsin native graduated in 2003 with a degree in Spanish and in 2004 earned his MBA in Marketing and Operations Management. He posted a 3.85 undergraduate GPA, a 4.0 as a graduate student, and was a recipient of a 2004 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
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