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Chris Johnson enters his first season with the Cavaliers' baseball program serving as the pitching coach and assisting with recruiting. Johnson spent last season as the head coach at Monacan High School in Richmond, Virginia and as an instructor at the Richmond Baseball Academy South. Johnson has served as an assistant coach at Guilford College 2007-2008 and Wilkes Community College 2004-2005.

Johnson has coached at two top ranked high school programs. In 2002 Bartow H.S. in Florida won a district championship, regional championship, and played for the 3A state championship finishing state runner-up. In 2006 North Forsyth H.S. in North Carolina won a Metro conference championship finishing with a 30-2 record and a state final four appearance. The Vikings were also ranked nationally in Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. Johnson has also served as a head coach for the Winston-Salem Post 128 Jr. American legion team.

Johnson played collegiately for one season 1992 at Lenoir Community College. Johnson sat out the next two seasons recovering from shoulder surgery and finished his career lettering two years 1995-1996 at Southeastern College in Lakeland, Florida. Johnson graduated with a B.S. degree in Psychology from Southeastern College in 2002 were he was a volunteer assistant coach during the 2001 season.

Outside of his time in coaching Johnson worked 3 years for Lifestyle Family Fitness the largest health club chain in the state of Florida where he held a certification in strength and conditioning. Johnson resides in Winston-Salem with his wife Rachel and their son Landon-Kai who is 5 years old.