Trevor Johnson begins his sixth season pacing the BVU men's basketball sidelines in 2024-25. Along with his head coaching duties, he also serves as an Assistant Director of Athletic Performance - a role he added in the fall of 2021 - and as Assistant Director of Athletics beginning in the fall of 2023.
Listed among the Top 30-Under-30 coaches by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 2020, Johnson has over a .550 overall win percentage and has guided the Beavers to a pair of American Rivers Conference Tournament game appearances in his first five campaigns.
In his first season in 2019-20, Johnson posted the highest win total in program history by any coach in his first season (18-8) and his team was among the top shooting and scoring teams in Division III, ending the year ranked 22nd in scoring (86.6ppg) and 35th in 3-point makes per game (10.2). He coached a trio of all-conference performers, including one First Team selection.
Despite playing a conference-only schedule in 2020-21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson led his team to a 9-3 overall record and a trip into the conference tournament championship game. The team again was among the top scoring teams in the league at 80.3ppg and also improved to third in scoring defense (72.8ppg). Johnson had two players earn all-conference accolades, including one First Team selection, as well as one all-region honoree.
Johnson has a wealth of Division III experience as both a player and coach. Prior to arriving at BVU, he spent the 2018-19 season serving as an assistant men's basketball coach at Johns Hopkins University and helped lead the Blue Jays to an 18-9 overall record and a runner-up finish in both the Centennial Conference's regular season and conference tournament.
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.
He received a bachelors degree in Biology from Nebraska Wesleyan in May of 2014 and later went on to earn his masters degree in Management from Doane University in 2017.
