PEMBROKE – Advancement Office officials at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke announced Tuesday that Tyler Johnson, a four-time scholar-athlete at NC State with previous stints as an administrator in two other collegiate athletics departments, has joined the department as Director of Braves Club Annual Giving.
 
Johnson transitions to his new position after serving as assistant athletics director at Fayetteville Tech. He also has a previous stop in the athletics department at Western Illinois.
 
"Vice Chancellor Varley and I are very excited about bringing Tyler on to our team. His creativity, organization  and energy will be welcomed by staff and donors alike," said Athletics Director Dick Christy.
 
A native of Lockport, Ill., Johnson has already attained a wealth of experience across several areas of intercollegiate athletics and administration. Amid a standout collegiate wrestling career, he served as site manager for the City of Raleigh before gaining career experience in collegiate athletics as part of a summer internship program in NC State's strength & conditioning program in 2016.
 
The next step of Johnson's budding career took him to Macomb, Ill., where he served 16 months as a graduate assistant at Western Illinois and attained experience in athletic administration, including academics and compliance, as well as development and ticketing. He also occupied a key role within the department's gender equity committee, and also represented WIU at the 2020 NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar.
 
He joined the staff at FTCC in January 2021 where he tended to multiple areas of the 5-year-old athletics department. In addition to his duties as a sport administrator, he handed tasks in areas of academics, compliance and game operations.
 
"I would like to thank Director of Athletics Dick Christy, Vice-Chancellor Steve Varley and the rest of the UNC Pembroke family for giving me this opportunity," Johnson said. "UNC Pembroke has had a lot of recent success, and it is a privilege to become a part of something so special. I am ecstatic to meet all the great donors that have helped provide world-class support for the student-athletes at UNC Pembroke over the years, and can't wait to be a part of the great culture and the local community that surrounds UNC Pembroke."
 
A four-time Atlantic Coast Conference Scholar-Athlete honoree, Johnson helped pace the Wolfpack to a trio of ACC championships, as well as a fourth-place finish at the 2018 NCAA Championships. He earned his bachelor's degree in sports management from NC State in 2019, and completed his graduate work in sport management at Western Illinois in 2020.