Hokie ClubVirginia Tech assistant men’s basketball coach James Johnson will be inducted into the Ferrum College Alumni-Sports Hall of Fame during Homecoming activities Saturday.
Joining Johnson in the Class of 2009 are football players Anthony Drakeford and Joe Happe, tennis player Doug Buerlein, field hockey and basketball player Mickey Freeman, former assistant football coach Carroll Rabon, Jr. and former athletic director Dr. Coulbourn Tyler.
The group will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, which was chartered in 1994, during an alumni awards luncheon at 10:30 a.m. on the college campus and will be recognized at halftime of the football game between Ferrum and Methodist (N.C.) University. With the group's induction, the HOF will have 100 members.
Johnson, a four-year player and three-year starter for Ferrum's men's basketball team from 1989-93, has been an assistant basketball coach at Virginia Tech since the summer of 2007.
Prior to joining Seth Greenberg's staff, Johnson held assistant coaching positions at NCAA Division I schools Old Dominion University (ODU), Elon (N.C.) University, College of Charleston (S.C.), Penn State University and George Mason University.
Johnson started on the Panthers' USA South Athletic Conference championship squad in 1992, which reached the second round of the Division III tournament, and their 1993 regular-season title-winning club.
Johnson began his coaching career at Ferrum under Bill Pullen, the coach for whom he played while at the college.