Johnson, a native of Washington, D.C., is one of the most decorated 110-meter hurdlers of all time. His illustrious career includes four World Championships, three World Indoor titles (60mH), seven national outdoor titles (four of them in consecutive years from 2000-2003), four national indoor titles, a 14-year streak of global top-10 rankings, and an Olympic gold medal from the 1996 Games in Atlanta. He was inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 2015. Johnson in 1997 won USATF’s Jesse Owens Award, which annually recognizes the top male athlete of the year, and he received the USATF/Visa Humanitarian Award in 1999 after leading a successful fundraiser for a new track surface at his former high school. Following his retirement, Johnson coached at both the Air Force, the University of South Carolina and was an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky where he specialized in sprints, hurdles, horizontal jumps and relays. He is now entering his third year with N.C. State University as a sprints and hurdles assistant coach.