Ashley Johnson Season 2023-24

LSU women’s basketball alumna Ashley Johnson joined the staff in June 2018 as the Director of Player Development. The former Ashley Thomas made four consecutive appearances in the Women’s Final Four with the Tigers.

Johnson serves as the staff liaison with the Cox Academic Center for Student-Athletes and assists with student services and life skills, community service and alumni relations.

Johnson, a native of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was a four-year letterwinner for LSU from 2004-08, starting 92 games during her career. She was named a recipient of a 2008-09 Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics given annually by the NCAA and earned academic honors from the Southeastern Conference in all four seasons of her collegiate career. In addition to the Women’s Final Four appearances, LSU won three SEC championships during her playing career and compiled the winningest class in program history with a record of 125-21. She served as a team captain during her junior and senior years.

After graduation, Johnson spent two seasons as a graduate assistant on the LSU staff before taking a position in Northrop Grumman’s highly competitive Information Systems Business Management Professional Development program. After three years with Northrop Grumman, Johnson took a management position with Points of Light in Atlanta in 2013 and began her coaching career at her alma mater, Stephenson High School, as an assistant coach.

She moved to the collegiate level in June 2014 as the director of program development for the women’s basketball team at UCF and earned her first coaching job at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in June 2016.

Johnson earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing with a minor in sports studies in 2008 and her master’s in business administration in 2010. She has a daughter, Ava.

The Ashley Johnson File
Hometown: Stone Mountain, Georgia
Education: LSU, 2008 (Marketing); LSU, 2010 (Master of Business Administration)
Twitter: @_CoachJohnson54

PLAYING EXPERIENCE
2004-08 LSU

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-10 – LSU, graduate assistant
2011 – Fairfax Stars Nike EYBL, assistant coach
2013-14 – Stephenson High School, assistant coach
2014-16 – UCF, director of program development
2016-17 – Winthrop University, assistant coach
2018-present – LSU, director of player development