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Steven Rackley, director of athletics at Alma, announced Thursday, March 15, that Kris Johnson has resigned as the Scots' women's basketball coach, effective immediately.
"Kris is a former Scot student-athlete who came back to Alma to rebuild our women's basketball program," Rackley said. "Although the record may not reflect it, the work she has done here has put the program on a trajectory to becoming an MIAA competitor in the future."
Rackley also announced that assistant coach Sami Stormont, who joined the staff in 2017 after a four-year collegiate career at Northwood, will serve as the interim head coach while a search for Johnson's replacement is conducted.
Johnson, a 1987 graduate of Alma, returned to Alma in April 2014 after serving as the director of internal operations for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, inheriting a program that went 0-25 during the 2013-14 campaign.
During her four-year tenure with the Scots, she posted a record of 29-71, including a 15-49 record against Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association opponents. Under Johnson's guidance, the Scots improved upon their win total in conference play in each of her first three seasons, while her 2015-16 squad recorded nine total wins, the most for Alma since 2008-09.
A successful coach in the high school ranks, Johnson spent 12 seasons (2001-13) as the head coach at Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central High School, where she guided the squad to four state finals and a pair of MHSAA Class C xhampionships. She is also a two-time MIAA women's basketball MVP and was inducted into the Alma College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996.