Head Coach Susan Johnson

Coach Susan Johnson enters her 30th season as head coach at Georgetown College.

“I love the challenge and the fact that no two days are ever alike,” says the Decatur, GA native. “I guess you could say it is the process of coaching, especially seeing a team come close to reaching its potential.”

Johnson has accumulated a record of 554-339 and has a long list of highlights throughout her career including eleven NAIA National Tournament appearances and three Elite Eight finishes. Her teams have also won six Mid-South Conference Championships, three KIAC Championships and three NAIA District/Regional Championships. She has been named the Mid-South Conference Coach of the Year four times, the KIAC Coach of the Year three times and was given the 1994 NAIA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year Award.

She has traveled to Auckland, New Zealand as part of a global village build for Habitat for Humanity, an organization that she supports every November by organizing a basketball classic with 100% of the proceeds going to the worthy cause.

In addition to her coaching duties, Johnson teaches in Georgetown College’s Kinesiology and Health Studies Department and serves as the president and treasurer of the Kentucky Women’s Intercollegiate Consortium. She is also a member of the NAIA/WBCA Nominating Committee and a former NAIA representative to the WBCA Board of Directors.

Johnson is a graduate of Furman University and the University of Georgia, with degrees in physical education and exercise physiology. As a student at Furman, she played three varsity sports including basketball, field hockey and tennis and twice earned the most valuable player honor in basketball.

 

Assistant Coach Andrea McCloskey

Assistant Coach Andrea McCloskey begins her third season with the Georgetown College Women's Basketball program.

Although, McCloskey's duties focus on recruiting, scouting and game day preparations, it is the individual personalities and needs of the student-athletes that drive her career.  She enjoys instructing one-on-one, particularly during guard workouts.

Head Coach Susan Johnson feels she and Andrea balance each other well and says she relies on McCloskey to approach their student-athletes in different ways.  “She has a great knowledge, knows how to relate to the students and has so much energy and enthusiasm that it is contagious,” she said.

McCloskey was a two-year captain of the women’s basketball team at the University of Rio Grande and, in addition, McCloskey coached at her alma mater for three seasons.

The daughter of an Ohio high school football coach, she says her favorite part of coaching is “being able to help young ladies become successful on and off the court” and that she learned important teaching skills from her parents: discipline from her father and patience from her mother.

She holds an undergraduate degree in Sports Exercise Science and a master’s degree in education. She and her husband, Kevin, a native of Ireland, live in Northern Kentucky, where he is a professional soccer player for the Cincinnati Kings and is also an assistant soccer coach at Xavier University.