NDSU women’s basketball head coach Maren Walseth announced Aug. 13 that Arianne Johnson has been named the program’s new director of operations.
”I am thrilled to complete our staff with the addition of Ari. Her organization skills, innovative ideas and passion for the game will make an immediate impact on Bison women's basketball,” Walseth said.
Before joining the Bison, Johnson was the head varsity girls' basketball coach at Hope Academy for the 2013-14 season. She previously was the head 10th grade basketball coach for Mounds View High School and the head ninth grade basketball coach at Tartan High School. Johnson also spent the past two summers as the head coach of the Crossfire AAU team.
A native of Minneapolis, Johnson played two seasons at Concordia St. Paul from 2009-11 where she was named to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference All-Academic Women's Basketball Championship Team twice and awarded the Concordia St. Paul University Golden Bear Award in women's basketball for her performance during the 2010-11 season. Johnson also was the women's basketball representative on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee during her stint with the Golden Bears.
She graduated from Concordia-St. Paul with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.