New Head Baseball Coach Announced

LSA is pleased to announce Erik Johansen as the new Head Baseball Coach effective with the 2012 Spring season. Coach Johansen has coached at MacArthur High School at the JV and Varsity level since 2006. Erik pitched for Fremd High School in Palatine, IL where they won a regional championship in 2002 and finished in 4th in State in 2A in 2000. Erik played for Millikin University 2002-2005. We are very excited to have Coach Johansen at the LSA and look forward to him building this program. LSA started baseball in 2010 and will be competing in its 3rd season in the spring. Construction has begun to build new fields on the LSA campus and we expect them to be ready for play in the fall of 2012.

“I am very excited to start a new chapter as head baseball coach of the LSA Lions!  It’s an honor to be so highly thought of to be put in charge of an entire program.  I can’t wait to get started working with these young men and building a progam from the elementary school on through the junior high and high school.  Our goal will be to build young men of character, integrity, and hard working baseball players.  Since we are in the early years of the program it will be very exciting to be able to be a part of ushering in the first baseball field on campus and hopefully rise to prominence in not only Decatur, but in Central Illinois.”