Troy Johnson is in his first season as assistant director of sports performance for football at Kennesaw State.
Johnson’s responsibilities will include serving as the director of sports science and working directly with the offensive and defensive lines.
Johnson arrives in Kennesaw after three seasons at FIU (2022-24) as the assistant strength coach for football. While with the Panthers, he oversaw injury rehabilitation programming, Pro Day training and sports science responsibilities, as well as the accountability system. He also worked with men’s soccer, volleyball and track sprinters.
Prior to FIU, Johnson was the assistant director of sports performance at Catawba College (2020-22). While in North Carolina, he was in charge of all the strength and conditioning programming for the football and men’s basketball teams, as well as men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s soccer and volleyball.
He was also the director of speed development and data analysis for football and men’s basketball.
No stranger to Conference USA, Johnson was the assistant strength and conditioning coach for football at Louisiana Tech in 2020 after serving as the graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at West Georgia (2018-19).
Johnson also gained experience as the summer intern in the Youngstown State football program (2018) and UNLV basketball program (2017).
The Munster, Ind. native graduated from Quincy University in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. He was a four-year letterwinner on the football team, including two years starting at fullback. He earned his master’s degree in media instructional technology from West Georgia in 2019.
