VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Courtesy: Middlebury Athletic Communications

Greensboro

Nordic skiing

Inducted 2024

A state, regional and national champion in Nordic skiing at Lyndon Institute, Andrew Johnson went to be a three-time all-American at Middlebury College and skied in two Olympic Games. He also won four U.S. National Championships and was the 1996 U.S. Junior National Champion.

A 1996 graduate of Lyndon Institute, he won six individual Vermont high school Nordic titles for the Vikings, winning both the Freestyle and Classical events in 1994, 1995 and 1996. He was the 1996 New England champion in both of the freestyle and classical races, and that winter he won the U.S. Junior National title. In ‘foot running’, he was the Vermont state cross country champ in 1994 and 1995, and was the 1996 state D-2 3000-meter champion in outdoor track. 

At Middlebury College, he was a three-time All-America for the Panthers in 1997, 98 and 99. He was on the U.S. National Team from 1999-2007 and competed at the World Championships in 2003, 2005, and 2007. He was the U.S. Nordic Champion in 2005 and 2006. 

Johnson competed for the U.S. in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Olympics at Torino, Italy. He skied in the 30K and 50K events in 2002, finishing 21st in the 30K in 2002, and added the 15K and 4 x 10K relay events in 2006. 

Johnson later became a ski coach, first serving as an assistant at the University of Utah from 2008-10. He was then an assistant at the University of Vermont from 2010-13, after which he returned to his alma mater and became the head ski coach at Middlebury. Johnson was named the coach of the year by the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association in 2018 and 2023.

He was inducted into the inaugural class of the Lyndon Institute Athletic Hall of Fame in 2020. He is the second LI athlete to be inducted into the VSHOF joining distance runner and Olympian Judi St. Hilaire (2014).