Storm Lake, Iowa (June 2, 2020) - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced today the 2020 Under Armour 30-Under-30 Team, representing 30 of the most outstanding men’s college basketball coaches under the age of 30.  Buena Vista University's second-year Trevor Johnson is among those recognized.

Johnson is coming off the best season in program history by a first-year coach after leading the Beavers to a strong 18-8 overall record and a fourth-place finish in the American Rivers Conference standings.  In the season prior to his arrival, BVU went just 11-14 and missed out on the league tournament for the first time.

About the National Association of Basketball Coaches

Located in Kansas City, Mo., the NABC was founded in 1927 by Forrest “Phog” Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game.  The NABC currently has nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men’s basketball coaches.  All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today’s student-athletes.  The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education.  Additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, can be found at nabc.com.

Johnson's coaching career got started when he was hired as an assistant men's basketball coach at his alma mater of Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2014 where he stayed until departing for Johns Hopkins.  During his four seasons on the bench with the Prairie Wolves, he recruited and coached seven players who combined to earn 14 all-conference honors, including a Jostens Award Finalist, three D3hoops.com All-Americans and the Conference's Most Valuable Player and NCAA Division III Final Four MVP.

Johnson was on the bench for the Prairie Wolves' national championship run in 2017-18 and was part of a program that went a combined 81-32 (.722) during his tenure.  He helped coach teams that led NAIA Division II in scoring in consecutive seasons (2014-15, 92.5ppg and 2015-16, 96.3ppg) and also in three-point field goal makes per game both seasons (12.1 and 14.2).

In addition to his coaching duties at NWU, Johnson also served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2017-18 where he assisted in developing training programs for three different sports and was an assistant to the athletic director/facilities director in 2015-16.

Johnson was a member of the Prairie Wolves basketball team as a player from 2010-14 and was a four-year starter and letterwinner.  As a senior in 2014, he went on to earn First Team All-Great Plains Athletic Conference honors, Honorable Mention All-American status and was a Jostens Award Finalist in Division III.  He scored over 1,000 career points and was a two-time NAIA Scholar Athlete, two-time First Team Academic All-District and was an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner in 2014.