Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Assistant Coach      Ali Johnson (2nd season)
High School:                      George C. Marshall (VA)
College:                              College of Saint Rose (2012)
Major:                                 Communications
 
Ali Johnson returns to the Rutgers-Camden coaching staff for the 2015-16 season after playing a big role in the Scarlet Raptors’ successful 2014-15 campaign. A former Division II collegiate basketball player at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and a student at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, Johnson’s work with the Raptors helped Rutgers-Camden improve to a 9-16 record last year, including a 5-13 mark in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. It was the program’s best NJAC mark since winning the conference title in 2003 with a 12-6 record.
 
A four-year letterwinner on an athletic scholarship with the Golden Knights, Johnson was a Dean’s List student at The College of Saint Rose and perennial member of the Northeast-10 Commissioner’s Honor Rolls for academic excellence. She was a Scholar Athlete every semester and served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) throughout her collegiate career, including a stint as the SAAC President (2011-12).  She was named to the Northeast-10 Academic All-Conference Team in 2012.
 
A stellar player on the court as well as in the classroom, Johnson averaged 9.1 points and 9.1 rebounds during her senior season, while compiling seven double-doubles and shooting a blistering .508 (99-for-195) from the floor. She also blocked 60 shots.
 
As a junior in 2010-11, Johnson averaged 9.9 points and 6.3 rebounds, while shooting .498 (105-for-211) from the floor and adding 46 blocks. She averaged 10.4 points and 6.3 rebounds, while shooting .519 (111-for-214) during her sophomore year.
 
Johnson was a Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society Member, an Upsilon Iota Communications Honor Society Member and a Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society Member at The College of Saint Rose. She graduated in May 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, and continued her studies as a Juris Doctor Candidate at the DePaul University College of Law (August 2012-May 2013). She currently is a second-year student at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden.
 
A member of the American Bar Association and the Student Bar Association, Johnson has taught basketball skills to children and teenagers, as well as coaching with a middle school girls’ basketball team in her hometown of Falls Church, Virginia.