Billy Johnson - Hitting / Catching Coach - 2nd Season
Hitting / Catching Coach
Coach Johnson enters his second year on the Trojan coaching staff and will serve as hitting coach and handle all the catching duties. Johnson has been most recently a member of the Milwaukee Brewers organization having signed a contract in February of 2009.
Johnson was previously signed on with the Windy City Thunderbolts which
is an independent minor league club in Crestwood, IL. The ThunderBolts
are part of independent baseball's Frontier League. As an independent
club, the ThunderBolts have no affiliation with any major league team.
Currently, former ThunderBolts are playing in the organization of two
big league teams, the Florida Marlins and Kansas City Royals.
As a former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater catcher Johnson finished the 2008 Warhawk season with
a .398 batting average, one of the best on the team. Johnson's fielding
percentage was a respectable .974 with 10 errors in 50 games played.
Johnson was named to the first team of the Division III All-Midwest
Regional Team this past year by the American Baseball Coaches
Association. He was also named First Team All-WIAC this past spring.
Johnson has been part of the Warhawk baseball history that won the WIAC championship seven times in the past nine years. Johnson was on the roster in the 2005 season when Whitewater won the National Championship.
Johnson is a native of Kenosha, WI and holds a degree in business from University of Whitewater.