Savannah State University
Wide Receivers/Strength and Conditioning Coach
Eddie Johnson
First season at SSU

Eddie Johnson enters his first year as the wide receivers and strength and conditioning coach at Savannah State University.

He comes to SSU from Newberry College, where in three years he helped improve a team once at the bottom of the South Atlantic Conference to a 25-8 record, a conference championship, and a birth in the 2006 Division II playoffs.

During the summer of 2005, Johnson was selected to participate in the National Football League's minority coaches program with the Carolina Panthers.

Prior to that, Johnson served four years on the Lenoir-Rhyne coaching staff as the running backs and defensive backs coach from 2000-2004. Two years before that, he served as wide receivers coach and defensive coordinator at Wingate University.

Johnson also coached outside linebackers and defensive backs at Wofford College in 1998-99, served as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach at Marietta College in Ohio from 1996-97, and running backs coach at his alma mater, Georgetown College in Kentucky, from 1993-95.

Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in business administration and finance from Georgetown College in 1993. As a player, he was a four year letterman at running back and was a member of the 1991 NAIA national championship team and the 1992 NAIA runners-up. Johnson went on to complete his master's degree in liberal learning from Marietta College in Ohio in 1998.

Johnson and his wife, Becky, are the proud parents of three children: Taylor, Benjamin and Matthew.

Eddie Johnson
At A Glance
Full Name: Edward Johnson
Birth Date: February 28, 1969
Birth Place: Cincinnati, Ohio
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Family: Wife - Becky, Children -Taylor, Benjamin, Matthew

Education: Georgetown (KY) University 1993

Playing Experience
Georgetown (KY) University, 1989-1992
Running Back

Coaching Experience
Savannah State University, 2008
Wide Receivers/Strength and Conditioning

Newberry College, 2005-2007
Defensive Backs/Strength and Conditioning

Lenior-Rhyne, 2001-2004
Running Backs/Defensive Backs

Wingate University, 1999-2000
Wide Receivers/Defensive Coordinator

Wofford College, 1998
Line Backers/Defensive Backs

Marietta (OH) College, 1996-1997
Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs

Georgetown (KY), 1993-1995
Graduate Assistant