JONESBORO, Ark. (4/8/16) – Arkansas State assistant coach Tristan Johnson has been named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s “Thirty Under 30” awards list the organization announced Friday.
This award was created in 2009 to honor up-and-coming coaching talent at all levels of the sport. To qualify for the award, nominees had to be 30 years old or younger in 2015. Johnson was one of 12 Division I coaches to receive the honor.
Johnson, who is just 23 years of age, will be going into his third season with the program in 2016 and second as a full-time assistant after spending 2014 as the team’s graduate assistant coach.