Forestburg will have a new boy’s basketball coach this season.
The Longhorns will be led by Reagan Johnson, who is coming to Forestburg after spending his first year in coaching at Valley View last year.
Johnson is a 2020 graduate from Muenster where he was coached by his dad Wes Johnson. He replaces Eldon Van Hooser, who retired after spending the last five years at Forestburg.
Johnson hopes what he lacks in experience, he will more than make up for with his enthusiasm, intensity and youthful energy.
“I am only 22, so I am a young coach and I can relate to them,” Johnson said. “I still want to be in control, but they can communicate with me. Four years ago I was in their shoes.”
Along with basketball, Johnson also will serve as an assistant coach in football and track. While he has never coached six-man football, he has officiated a game before so he is ahead of other coaches whose first game experience comes during the first game.
“One of the main things I harp on is being a competitor,” Johnson said. “I don’t care if we are beating a team by 30. If you can’t compete in that game, how am I to expect you to compete in a game when we are down two with five seconds left to go?”

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