Jade Johnson

2012-13 BGSU Tennis - Michael Nemeth photo

Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
High School:
Homestead
Hometown:
Fort Wayne, Ind.

JOHNSON AND THE FALCONS
Finished her BGSU career with an overall record of 102-70 ... that includes a 31-33 singles mark and a 71-37 doubles slate as a Falcon ... had a .657 winning percentage in doubles matches at BGSU ... ended her career tied for 11th on the BG list for career doubles wins ... finished her four years ranked 29th on the school's overall wins list ... had a career record of 5-1 in doubles matches during the MAC Championships, going 2-0 as both a sophomore and a senior ... in MAC regular-season play, had a combined doubles record of 13-3 over her last two seasons, with a 7-1 mark in her senior year after a 6-2 record the previous spring.

2012-13
Won over 67 percent of her matches as the Falcons won a school-record 17 duals and recorded the best conference regular-season and tournament finishes in program history ... was named an ITA Scholar Athlete ... earned honorable mention on the Academic All-MAC Team for the second time in as many years ... her overall record of 33-16 (.673) included a stellar 27-8 doubles mark ... finished second on the team in both doubles victories and doubles winning percentage (.771) ... her doubles win total tied for the fourth-highest in a season in BGSU history ... teamed up with fellow senior Mary Hill at the third doubles flight during most of the spring schedule ... that duo won nine of their final 10 matches, going 7-1 in MAC regular-season play and 2-0 in the MAC Championships ... Hill and Johnson won their first seven conference confrontations before losing a narrow 8-5 decision at Western Michigan in the final regular-season match ... but, as mentioned, they bounced back with a pair of victories in the league tournament ... that duo's latter win, vs. Miami's Raymond/Costea tandem, was the third and final match to finish, giving BGSU the doubles point -- the first point by the Brown and Orange in the league tourney's championship round in school history ... competed in a pair of non-conference dual matches with junior Nikki Chiricosta at the second flight, splitting those two matches ... that duo went 3-1 overall on the season ... had a record of 7-3 when competing with freshman Drew Fillis, and played (and won) one match with fellow senior Katie Grubb as her partner ... had an overall singles record of 6-8 on the year ... had a 9-6 record during the fall ... went 6-2 in doubles, teaming with Fillis for all but one of those eight contests ... lost only two total games (6-1, 6-1) in a win over an Iowa State opponent at the WMU Super Challenge ... paired up with Fillis for wins over WMU and Iowa State duos en route to a back-draw title at that tournament ... was undefeated on the weekend at the Rocket Invitational ... won two singles and two doubles matches, teaming up with Grubb for one doubles win and with Fillis for the other ... combined with Fillis for a pair of wins in the third flight at the BGSU Invitational, as that duo advanced to the championship match before falling by a narrow 8-6 count ... also played at the third singles flight in the BGSU Invite.

2011-12
Earned honorable mention on the Academic All-MAC Team ... had an overall record of 29-23 on the season ... posted a 19-11 mark in doubles, and went 10-12 in singles play ... combined with Mary Hill for a stellar 6-2 doubles record in MAC regular-season action ... that duo, competing primarily at the third flight, went 1-1 in the league championships and finished the year with an 8-4 overall mark ... the Hill/Johnson team picked up an 8-0 win over an Eastern Michigan team in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Championships, after losing to that same duo just seven days earlier in the teams' regular-season meeting ... went 9-4 when teamed with Maddy Eccleston on the year, and also competed with Emily Reuland (2-1) and Katie Grubb (0-2) ... the Eccleston/Johnson duo reeled off a six-match win streak, losing a combined total of just nine games in the latter four matches of that streak ... had a 15-7 record during the fall ... went 7-4 in singles play and 8-3 in doubles action ... in singles action, went 2-1 at three of her four fall tournaments and 1-1 at the other ... teamed with Eccleston for a 6-2 doubles record, including a flight championship at Michigan State's Green and White Invitational ... advanced to the championship match of her singles flight at that event with a win over an MSU player in the semifinal round, before losing in three sets in the final ... the Johnson/Eccleston team downed an MSU duo en route to their doubles crown that weekend ... won the back draw in singles play at the Fall MAC Invite in Kalamazoo ... teamed with Eccleston to advance to the championship match in doubles at the BGSU Invitational.

2010-11
Was named an ITA Scholar Athlete ... had an overall record of 13-12 ... went 4-4 in singles and 9-8 in doubles ... saved her best for last, combining with freshman Emily Reuland for a pair of lopsided doubles wins in the MAC Championships ... that duo went 3-3 at the second flight on the year, including 1-2 in MAC regular-season play and 2-0 in the league tourney ... the Johnson/Reuland team won, 8-2, at Northern Illinois to end the regular season ... then, they posted an 8-3 win over Toledo in the tourney quarterfinal round, and rolled to an 8-2 victory vs. Miami in the semifinals ... moved into the doubles lineup at the number-two flight on Feb. 27, and remained there for the rest of the season ... in addition to Reuland, also played with classmate Katie Grubb during the spring schedule ... that duo went 3-4 in duals ... played at the sixth singles flight in four consecutive matches, including the first three MAC regular-season contests ... was slowed by injury for much of the fall semester ... had an overall record of 2-0, competing in a pair of doubles matches ... both came at the Rocket Invitational, as she won one match apiece when competing with classmates Maddy Eccleston and Mary Hill.

2009-10
Posted an overall record of 27-19 in her first season at BGSU ... was 11-9 in singles and 16-10 in doubles play ... played at the sixth singles flight for two MAC matches, going 1-1 ... teamed with Katia Babina at the second doubles level in four of the eight conference contests ... had an overall singles mark of 3-6 in dual-match play, splitting time between the fifth and sixth flights ... in doubles, teamed with Babina to go 10-7 in dual-match action and 11-7 on the year, competing at the second flight ... that duo won six of the first seven matches of the spring ... in the fall, had an overall record of 13-6 ... went 7-3 in singles play in the fall, tying for the team lead in victories ... teaming with four different teammates, had a fall doubles mark of 6-3 ... in her first weekend of intercollegiate competition, had a 3-0 singles record and won a flight title at the BGSU Invitational ... went 2-1 in singles and a perfect 3-0 in doubles play at the Belmont Invitational ... teamed with Jessica Easdale for two of those doubles matches, and with Babina in the other ... combined with classmate Katie Grubb for a 2-1 mark at the Queen City Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL
A four-year letterwinner under coach Jim Shull at Homestead H.S. ... a three-time All-Indiana First-Team honoree after earning second-team honors as a freshman ... had a career record of 96-10 for the Spartans ... earned All-Northeast Hoosier Conference and all-district first-team honors in all four years ... team won the conference title every season ... as a junior, went 23-2 in her first season at the top singles flight ... was 23-3 as a senior ... posted a 28-1 mark in her sophomore season ... team advanced to at least the state quarterfinals in each of her four years, finishing second in 2009.

PERSONAL
Full name Jade Nicole Johnson ... daughter of Chris and Nicole Johnson ... born on Sept. 28, 1990, in Cincinnati, Ohio ... a biology/pre-dental major at BGSU ... graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.53 ... has a younger sister ... father is the boys basketball coach at Homestead.