BATON ROUGE – After leading LSU to its second College World Series title in three years, Tigers baseball coach Jay Johnson has been selected as the 2025 National Coach of the Year by D1Baseball.com.
Johnson was already named the American Baseball Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year on June 25.
Johnson has enhanced LSU’s elite legacy by guiding the Tigers to the 2023 and 2025 College World Series titles, marking the seventh and eighth national championships in school history. The 2025 team posted an overall record of 53-15 and finished the year on an eight-game winning streak, culminating in a two-game series sweep of Coastal Carolina in the CWS Finals.
Johnson became the fastest coach to win multiple CWS championships during his tenure at a single school. The previous mark was set by Jim Morris, who claimed NCAA trophies in 1999 and 2001 during his first eight seasons at the University of Miami (Fla.).
“Johnson has solidified his place at the very pinnacle of his profession by leading the tradition-rich LSU program into a new golden age,” D1Baseball.com’s Aaron Fitt said. “The Tigers won six national championships between 1991-2000 under the leadership of Skip Bertman, then added another title under Paul Mainieri in 2009. Now, Johnson has established LSU as college baseball’s premier program during the new era of the transfer portal and NIL money. But he’s done it by blending traditional prep recruiting and development of home-grown talent with an expert touch in the portal.”
Johnson has a 507-249 (.671) record in 13 seasons as a college head coach, including a 190-77 (.712) mark in four seasons at LSU. He has a 43-16 (.729) record in NCAA Tournament games, including a 26-7 (.788) mark with the Tigers.
He has a 16-7 career mark in the College World Series, including a 5-5 mark in two CWS appearances (2016, 2021) at Arizona and an 11-2 record in two CWS appearances (2023, 2025) at LSU.
He was voted 2023 National Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball America magazine, D1 Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball newspaper.