After leading the LSU baseball team to its seventh national championship in program history, coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] is taking home some personal accolades, as well.
Johnson was named the National Coach of the Year by D1Baseball on Tuesday. That marked the third such honor he’s received this year as he was also named Coach of the Year by Collegiate Baseball and the American Baseball Coaches Association.
“The thing about Jay is that he never, ever backed down from the expectations that were put on these guys,” LSU athletics director [autotag]Scott Woodward[/autotag] said in a release from D1Baseball. “He accepted it, and he embraced it. He loved the expectations, and he certainly loved the pressure. In the end, that’s just what winners do.”
In his second season after arriving from Arizona, Johnson led LSU to its first College World Series appearance and 50-win season since 2017. The Tigers managed to avenge their CWS final loss from that year, beating Florida in three games to win the first national title in Johnson’s coaching career.
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