VMI Athletics

2016-17: Redshirt season.

High School: Coached by Chris Way at Parkersburg HS in Parkersburg, W.Va. ... four-year letterwinner, all at different weights ... four-time state placer and over 150 wins during career ... state runner-up as a junior and state champion as a senior ... recorded 91 pins over four seasons ... 46-5 record as a senior ... played football for three years, named honorable mention all-state as a junior and second team All-MSAC as a senior ... also wrestled for the Ragin' Raisins wrestling club ... received Elizabeth Handlan Excellence in Wrestling award, the Leland G. Merrill Jr. Olympian award and the Great American Rivalry scholar-athlete award.

Personal: Full name is Nicholas Bryant Johnson ... parents are George and Suzanne Johnson ... has two older siblings ... plans to major in mechanical engineering ... received the Frances DeFranco-James Winans, Jr. scholarship ... accepted a Scottish Rite of Free Masonry scholastic excellence award from the NJROTC ... sister was a cheerleader at Campbell and brother plays AAA baseball in England for the Cambridge Monarchs.