INDIANAPOLIS – California Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Robyne Johnson has been named an assistant coach of Team USA for track & field, USATF announced Wednesday.

Johnson will assist with the women's jumps and multi-events for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, the same position she held for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Johnson is a former American record holder in the triple jump and participated in four U.S. Olympic Trials. She also competed on the international stage at the 1980 Junior (U20) Pan Am Games, 1991 World Indoor Championships and the 1993 United States vs. Great Britain team.  

A three-time winner of the USTFCCCA Northeast Indoor Track & Field Women's Coach of the Year award (2008, 2014, 2016) Johnson returns to Cal this year after spending the previous 14 seasons as Director of Track & Field/Cross Country at Boston University.

While directing the Terrier program, Johnson won nine conference track & field titles, five cross country titles and was named Coach of the Year seven times by the America East Conference and three times by the Patriot League.

Johnson served as an assistant coach at Cal from 1995-2003 as the horizontal jumps and short sprints coach under Erv Hunt. While at Cal, Johnson coached six Pac-10 champions, six MPSF Champions and 11 student-athletes to the NCAA Championship final site, including seven first team All-Americans.  

She was the head women's track & field coach for Team USA at the 2011 World University Games in China, and an assistant coach for the United States at the 2012 DecaNation meet in France, as well as the head women's track & field coach at the World University Games in China. Johnson was also an assistant coach for the United States team that captured its first title at the 1998 World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa and was an assistant coach for the 2003 Pan American Games.