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Erik Johnson

Erik Johnson

Head Women's Basketball Coach at University of Denver; veteran Division I coach with 30+ years of college coaching experience across Denver, Boston College, Fairfield, San Diego, and Rhode Island.

Jun 8, 2026

18:21
So throughout the time, you brought up Carly, of course, but you've had a lot of people who have held a ladder for you through the years, people that have – helped you climb to greater heights than you ever thought you could? Like, who are those people?
18:40
Yeah.
18:40
So, I mean, you know, we've all, we've all had coaches, right.
18:44
And it's, it's, it's, I think I love this question because it's important for coaches to remember all the people that had an impact on them as coaches and remember what the impact that you're having on the people that you're coaching, right.
18:57
Is that, you know, people are going to be talking, talking about coach tim coach rice you know coach coach ej coach eric coach johnson for the rest of their lives um you know some of it will be fond memories some of them will be like i can't believe when he made us do this or he said this to me um you know and it's funny when i look at just again having this perspective one of the coolest thing not the well not one of the coolest thing about coming back to the university of denver has been the reaction for the alums Um, especially the ones that we play that, that played for us and just them talking about the experience that they had.
19:32
And, and, you know, now they're all again, 18 years later, right.
19:35
Or 15 years later, whatever they graduated right there.

7 MINS LATER

26:22
Yvonne, Shelly, Lisa, and, of course, Chris, each one of them going on to different – places whether that's in the college basketball world or even outside of it like tell us tell us a little bit about those four folks and how important they were for your first run

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