Thursday, July 24, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS NATIVE BEN JOHNSON HIRED AS ASSISTANT MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA

Minneapolis native Ben Johnson has been hired as an Assistant Men’s basketball coach for the University of Northern Iowa according to the University’s basketball web site. Ben Johnson is from Minneapolis and played basketball at Northwestern University before transferring to the University of Minnesota to finish school and earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 2005.

Ben Johnson started his coaching career at the University of Dayton. After that he has spent the past two seasons as an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of Texas-Pan American. Ben Johnson graduated from Minneapolis De La Salle in 1999.

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