Brookdale Baseball Head Coach Johnny Johnson Named Region XIX Coach of the Year
Blackwood, NJ- Brookdale Community College head baseball coach Johnny Johnson was named Region XIX Coach of the Year. Johnson, who is in his 16th year in charge of the Jersey Blues program, has been named the Region XIX coach of the year six times, and the Garden State Athletic Conference coach of the year six times in his illustrious career at the helm.
Blackwood, NJ- Brookdale Community College head baseball coach Johnny Johnson was named Region XIX Coach of the Year. Johnson, who is in his 16th year in charge of the Jersey Blues program, has been named the Region XIX coach of the year six times, and the Garden State Athletic Conference coach of the year six times in his illustrious career at the helm. Johnson's career record now stands at 531-201.
No stranger to success, Johnson was recently voted to the All-Decade Team (1980) for New Jersey high schools by Scholastic Sports and was previously voted to the first team All Tri-State Daily News team as a catcher in 1980 and 81 before starting his collegiate playing career at Brookdale.
The 2014 Jersey Blues (24-15), will face the #1 seeded Cumberland Dukes at home on Friday, May 9th at 12pm in the semi-finals of the Region XIX tournament. The Blues will seek their fifth Region XIX crown and fourth trip to the NJCAA World Series.