This week, D1 Baseball announced that LSU head coach Jay Johnson is the 2025 Coach of the Year in college baseball.
Tiger King 🐯👑
Jay Johnson is the 2025 D1Baseball Coach of the Year and the first two-time winner in the award's 11-year history!@LSUbaseball x @rapsodo pic.twitter.com/2kuC7mEb4G
— D1Baseball (@d1baseball) July 7, 2025
It is the second time in three seasons that Johnson has been named coach of the year. He also won the award in the 2023 season, the first time he led LSU to a national championship.
Johnson led the Tigers to the 2025 national championship. This was the second national title for LSU in three seasons and the eighth in program history.
In 2025, LSU finished the season 53-15 overall and were 19-11 in SEC play.
The success in the College World Series and NCAA Tournament has been extensive for Johnson. In the last ten years, he has led teams to Omaha four times.
The head coach has been to the NCAA Tournament for five straight seasons. In seven total NCAA Tournament appearances as a head coach, Johnson has a record of 43-16.
He has 507 total wins in his head coaching career, which has also included stints at Point Loma Nazarene, Nevada, and Arizona.
Following the completion of his fourth season in Baton Rouge, Johnson has now led LSU to 40+ win seasons every year as the head coach. The 2025 Coach of the Year has 190 wins in purple and gold.
What’s Next for Johnson and LSU Baseball? – With two national championships in three seasons, Johnson has clearly made LSU the program to beat in college baseball.
The head coach has given the Tigers a ton of momentum that has also translated into great recruiting.
LSU currently has the number one overall high school recruiting classes in the 2025 and 2027 cycles according to Perfect Game. The Tigers also have a top five high school recruiting class in the 2026 cycle.
Photo: Head Coach Jay Johnson of the LSU Tigers. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
