Allan Johnson
Allan is in his 14th year as Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at West Virginia University. Overall, this begins Johnson’s 18th year in the field of Strength & Conditioning.
Johnson served as the first Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Baltimore Orioles Baseball team from 1989-1992, and was WVU’s Strength Coach from 1983-1988. Since rejoining the West Virginia program in 1993, he is responsible for the total development of sport-specific strength & conditioning programs for all 21 varsity sports.
He has been voted the Big East Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year by his peers in 1997, 1998 and 2000. He has been a prominent speaker at numerous clinics and symposiums throughout the country, on topics ranging from strength & conditioning to motivation. He has also developed sport performance camps and clinics for middle school as well as senior high student athletes.
Johnson is considered to be one of the leading innovators in his field and serves on the CSCC’s Executive Board of Directors.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Glenville State College in West Virginia in 1980 and a Master of Science degree from West Virginia University in 1982 in Sports Management/Administration with an emphasis in Athletic Coaching Education.
The responsibility for building the strength and overseeing the conditioning of West Virginia athletes falls to well-known strength coach Allan Johnson, who rejoined the West Virginia program in 1993 after a four-year stint in major league baseball.
Johnson, who served as strength and conditioning coach for the Baltimore Orioles from 1988-92, was West Virginia’s strength coach from 1982-88. In his current assignment, he oversees the conditioning and weight training activities of WVU’s 21 varsity sports for men and women, supervising in-season and off-season workout programs. A nationally recognized innovator who has developed such programs as the Iron Mountaineer Award, he is responsible for strength facilities in the Milan Puskar Center, the WVU Coliseum, Natatorium and Shell Building.
Johnson served three years as a high school football coach at Federal Hocking (Ohio) and Parkersburg South (W.Va.) High Schools before becoming a graduate assistant strength coach at WVU in 1982.
Named the BIG EAST Professional of the Year for 1997, 1998 and 2000 by the National Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, he is a regular clinic speaker at the NSCA annual convention and other regional meetings. In 1988, the NSCA named Johnson the Region III strength coach of the year.
A former state powerlifting champion, he was a letterman in football and track at West Virginia Tech and Glenville State College. A native of Parkersburg, W.Va, Johnson and his wife, Jan, have one son, Adam.
