In advance of Mississippi’s season opener, women’s soccer coach Matt Mott told Ella Johnson she would be starting for the Rebels “next to your sister.” When the Hawaii basketball schedule was published, forward Gibson Johnson texted his brother: “Go check who you play on December 17th.”
The pairings of the Johnson sisters as the Ole Miss center backs and the Johnson brothers as opponents in last Sunday’s Hawaii-Utah Valley game are part of a bigger story. This could be an all-time record: four siblings from Centerville competing in Division I college athletics during one school year.