Mark Johnson enters his fourth season as an assistant baseball coach for the Blue Hose. Johnson serves as the recruiting coordinator and will work primarily with the pitching staff and infielders. He also assists with overall strength and conditioning for the team. 

Johnson has established himself has an outstanding recruiter. His recent recruiting classes have been some of the best classes in the programs history. Recent classes have produced all-conference players and all-academic conference student athletes.

Johnson came to Presbyterian College after spending three years as an assistant baseball coach at NCAA Division III Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga.

During his tenure with the Piedmont College Lions, he assisted in recruiting, fundraising, field maintenance, and on-field instruction specializing with the pitching staff, while helping lead the program to a pair of National Christian College World Series Tournament appearances and the 2003 National Christian College South Region Championship. He also served as a resident director at Piedmont College for three years, while serving the Admissions Office as a counselor.

During his playing career, Johnson was a four-year letter winner at Methodist College as a pitcher. During his successful playing career, he was a two-year captain, an all South Region selection, SGA Senior Athlete of the Year, and made three NCAA III South Regional Tournament appearances in ’98, ’99, ’01.   In high school, he helped lead Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, Va., to the first Virginia AAA State Championship in the school’s history, as a senior. 

Johnson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Management, with a minor in Business Administration from Methodist College in 2001. He later earned his Masters of Business Administration from Piedmont College in May of 2003.

Johnson is recently engaged to Shannon Paitsell of Augusta, Georgia. The couple will be wed on October 6^th 2007 in Augusta.

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