Camryn Johnston
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- Position:
- Beach/Indoor Assistant Coach
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- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Bio
A four-year letterwinner at Wisconsin-Platteville from 2020 to 2023, Johnston comes to Cookeville after a two-year stint as a graduate assistant at Ball State, where she also played a graduate campaign. While with the Cardinals as a GA, she helped guide Ball State to a regular-season Mid-American Conference championship.
She earned a master’s degree in sports administration while on the Cardinal staff. Johnston earned her bachelor’s degree from Wisconsin-Platteville in 2023 in agricultural business.
Johnston began her collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant in Spring 2024 at Wisconsin-Milwaukee for head coach Susie Johnson. Johnston has also had experience coaching a wide spectrum of talent, ranging from elementary school age to collegiate. She has operated camps and given lessons to all age levels and served as part of the 2025 Under Armour All-America tryout camps.
She follows in her family’s footsteps as her mother was a women’s basketball coach at Carroll University, in addition to serving as a high school coach, teacher and now full-time professor at Carthage College.
“Camryn is the perfect addition to come in and elevate not one, but two programs of student-athletes,” Volleyball head coach Jeannette Phillips said. “During the hiring process, we knew that this position was going to need to be someone special. This needed to be someone who loves every aspect of volleyball, truly leans into empowering young athletes and can serve as a role model to both our Beach and Indoor teams.
“She will step right into assisting our Beach program as they roll into their competitive season and will shift to the indoor court after the Beach season has concluded. Coach B and I are both looking forward to working with Camryn, and we know that she will be a wonderful fit here as a Golden Eagle.”
Johnston is ready to get things started with the Tech teams.
“I am super excited to be a part of these programs,” she said. “I am thankful for Coach Phillips and (Beach Volleyball head) Coach (Isabella) Borgiotti for this opportunity and am thrilled to help these programs win championships. I also look forward to being part of the Tennessee Tech and Cookeville communities.”