Sydney Johnson Parents: Who Is Leroy Johnson?

Sydney was born to Leroy Johnson. The name of his mother is unknown. Johnson’s father divorced his mother when Johnson was young.

He grew up in a series of college towns. Johnson’s father played basketball for Indiana in the late 1950s. He was also one of the first Americans to play professionally in France.

Johnson had been very involved with the University as a whole during his head coaching career, participating in a task force charged with surveying the impact of Princeton’s eating clubs on campus life and sitting with his players in the student section of many home football games.

During his seven-year professional career, he won three championships in Europe. After being hired in 2007, he has been the youngest coach in the Ivy League for his entire four-year tenure there.