WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – With more than a decade of experience as a coach and scout, Dustin Johnson will return to Central Pennsylvania to become an assistant baseball coach at Lycoming College, head coach Rick Oliveri announced on Thursday, Aug. 12.
 
Johnson spent the past two seasons as the head coach at West Potomac High School and he also worked as an elementary teacher at Fort Belvoir Primary School.
 
Prior to that, Johnson worked as a Mid-Atlantic Region area scout for the San Diego Padres, covering Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C., Virginia and West Virginia for the team. He helped the team sign six players to professional contracts, including Major Leaguer David Bednar.
 
Johnson also worked as a collegiate assistant coach for eight seasons, working at George Washington University in 2015, Binghamton University from 2012-14, helping the Bearcats to a pair of America East Championships in 2013 and 2014, and he spent three years as an assistant at Bloomsburg University from 2009-11.
 
A four-year letterwinner, starting pitcher and team captain at Division II Bloomsburg, Johnson led the Huskies in wins, strikeouts, complete games and innings pitched in 2006-07.
 
Johnson, who has a wife, Tara, and son, Easton, earned a bachelor of science in elementary education from Bloomsburg in 2008 before earning a master of science in instructional technology in 2010.