Ka’lia Johnson joined the Towson University women’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in June 2023.
She comes to Towson after spending the 2022-23 season at Richmond as an assistant coach. The Spiders went 22-11 last season and advanced to the second round of the WNIT.
Before Richmond, Johnson spent three seasons at Longwood helping the Lancers reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. During her tenure, the Lancers improved from 12 wins to 22 victories, earning a share of the Big South Conference regular season championship and winning the Big South Conference Tournament in 2021-22.
Johnson served as the video coordinator at VCU in 2018-19 and spent two seasons at UNC Greensboro as a graduate manager.
Johnson played collegiate basketball at Duke University, helping the Blue Devils win the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament championship, reach the Elite Eight in back-to-back years and finish with four consecutive 20-win seasons. The Blue Devils were 115-28 during her four seasons. During Johnson’s senior season (2014-15), she averaged 7.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game as the starting point guard. She recorded the seventh triple-double in Duke history versus Old Dominion on Nov. 20, 2014, with 18 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds.
After Duke, she played professionally for two seasons. First in the Czech Republic for the BLK Slavia Praha where she averaged 19.4 points and a league-leading 10.5 rebounds per game. She then served as team captain for Alte Kanti Aarau in Switzerland before returning to the United States to begin her coaching career in August 2016.
