‘OK, this is where we’re at right now’: Chargers’ Johnson relishes first game as head coach

By Shane Hulsey, Sports Writer | August 28, 2024
Illini West volleyball coach Sawyer Johnson talks to her team during a break in the action Tuesday night in the season-opening match against Camp Point Central in Carthage, Ill. | Shane Hulsey photo

CARTHAGE, Ill. — The moment hit Sawyer Johnson as soon as she stepped into the gymnasium at Illini West High School on Tuesday. She was about to coach her first-ever high school volleyball game. “It was crazy,” Johnson said. “Stepping into that varsity game, seeing everybody and seeing the girls, it was like ‘OK, this…

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