Tech volleyball coach resigns

Georgia Tech volleyball coach Tonya Johnson resigned her position Friday after her fifth year at the school to take another college coaching job.

Associate athletic director Theresa Wenzel said she was not at liberty to divulge the position Johnson is taking, but called it “an opportunity for her that, professionally, she couldn’t pass up.” Johnson’s record over five seasons was 85-72 and 50-50 in ACC play. Tech stumbled this season, finishing 12-20 overall and 6-14 in the ACC. In 2009, her first year, she took the Jackets to their first NCAA appearance since 2004 but was unable to lead them back to the NCAA tournament.

Tech has begun training for its spring season and will have its first competition March 4. Assistants Craig Bere and Chuck Crawford have been placed in charge of the team in the interim. Wenzel said it was her hope to have a replacement in place by the beginning of April.

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