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Name: Derrick
Johnston
Contact Information: Coach
Johnston may be contacted at baseball@slcconline.edu.
Profile:Derrick played four years of baseball at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Upon graduating with a B.A. in Business Administration (1999), he came to study at SLCC. The '07 season will mark Derrick’s sixth year with SLCC baseball, serving as an Assistant and Associate Head Coach before solely taking over the head coaching duties two years ago. Derrick has also been an assistant coach for the volleyball team and men’s basketball team for the past three years.
Derrick's family has also been involved at SLCC. His brother, Steve, attended back in '89 to '91. He played both basketball and baseball for the Soldiers. Derrick's father, Jim, had been a professor in the AIM program and taught the psychology class for several years. Jim is the minister at the First Christian Church in Alton.
Derrick also substitute teaches in Edwardsville, works as a janitor at the First Christian Church in Alton, and works for a landscaping company during the summer. He helps SLCC alumnus Matt Campbell with youth groups at LeClaire Christian Church in Edwardsville. Derrick plays on both a slow-pitch softball team and a fast-pitch softball team during the summer.
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