{"id":854503,"date":"2026-08-11T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:24:10","slug":"johnson-assigned-as-mens-tennis-first-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854503\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Assigned as Men\u2019s Tennis First Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 Liberty Men&#8217;s Tennis and Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/derek-schwandt\/2536\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2536\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Schwandt<\/a> have announced the elevation of McKane Johnson to be the Flames&#8217; first assistant coach. Johnson will join the team at the beginning of the 2026 fall season.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;McKane will add tremendous value to every aspect of our program,&#8221; Schwandt said. &#8220;He has a strong faith, work ethic, and passion to Train Champions for Christ. He is a humble, hungry and smart coach who will connect and motivate our team to get better every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson comes to Liberty after graduating from Georgia State this past May. The Cumming, Ga., native was active from 2024-26, participating in over 30 singles matches and 45 doubles matches. He transferred to Georgia State after competing at Georgia College during his Freshman campaign.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAccording to Georgia State, Johnson served as a player-coach his sophomore year when he wasn&#8217;t playing in the 2024 season. With the assistance of Johnson&#8217;s guidance, the Panthers reached the SunBelt Championship Semifinals.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn his final season of action at Georgia State, Johnson made 20 singles appearances, being showcased in the No. 5 and 6 singles slots. He made 25 appearances in doubles, highlighted by two key SunBelt victories in the No. 2 doubles position with Edward Tymes.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJohnson excelled off the court in Atlanta, being named to Georgia State&#8217;s President&#8217;s List (4.0+ semester GPA) four separate times and the Dean&#8217;s List (3.50 semester GPA or higher) twice. He has been named to the SunBelt Commissioner&#8217;s List twice, in 2025 and 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 Liberty Men&#8217;s Tennis and Head Coach Derek Schwandt have announced the elevation of McKane Johnson to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-854503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}