Cam Johnson joined the Valpo baseball coaching staff prior to the 2025 season as the program’s recruiting coordinator, hitting coach, outfield coach and top assistant. 

Johnson arrived at Valpo after having served as the assistant coach, director of operations and camp coordinator at Creighton University in Omaha since August 2022. He helped the Bluejays, members of the Big East Conference, to a 35-17 overall record and 28-4 nonconference mark in 2024. He assisted in the development of Nolan Clifford, who was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 17^th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

In 2024, Johnson also helped Creighton achieve its highest team batting average since 2019, its highest on-base percentage since 2005, highest team slugging percentage since 2019, most home runs since 2019 and most runs scored since 2005. In addition, the Bluejays posted the most runs per game in program history.

Prior to arriving at Creighton, Johnson was the head baseball coach for the Badlands Big Sticks in Dickson, N.D. from November 2021 to August 2022. He served as an assistant coach at Des Moines Area Community College in Boone, Iowa from August 2018 to August 2022 after getting his start as an assistant varsity baseball coach at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa from September 2017 to August 2020.

A member of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), Johnson was a team captain during the 2016-2017 season at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, where he was part of over 120 wins through his four-year playing career. He helped the team to regular season and conference tournament championships during the 2013-14 season.

Johnson graduated from Buena Vista in May 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science and a minor in coaching.