Northwestern State University of Louisana

2025 Season:
• Appeared in 39 games, starting nine, in his first Division I season.
• started the game-winning, ninth-inning rally with a pinch-hit single in a May 15 Southland Conference Tournament win against McNeese.
• went 2-for-4 and homered for the second straight game in a May 8 win against McNeese.
• began the Demons' comeback with a two-run home run and drove in a career-high three runs in May 4 win at Pepperdine
• delivered a pinch double and scored the winning run in an April 29 victory at ULM.
• walked and doubled off the bench in an April 8 loss at ULM.
• went 2-for-2 with a doubled and two RBIs off the bench in a March 16 win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
• swatted his second home run of the season in a March 11 win against Grambling.
• blasted a two-run, pinch-hit home run in a March 8 win against UIW.
• had a pair of sacrifice flies -- joining Braden Benton as the first Demons to do that in nearly a decade -- in a Feb. 26 win against Alcorn State.
• doubled in his first career at-bat against Central Arkansas on Feb. 14.

2024 Season:
• Did not see game action, redshirted.

Prior to NSU:
• Second-team all-conference selection as a sophomore.
• hit .318 with nine doubles, two triples, two home runs and 36 RBIs while stealing 17 bases as a sophomore.
• had 13 doubles, a triple and a pair of home runs while stealing 10 bases as a freshman.
 
High School:
• Four-year letterman for coach Jeremy Price’s Lions.
• named a Perfect Game Preseason All-American ahead of senior year before hitting .330 with nine home runs, earning all-district honors.
• was a PG Preseason All-American ahead of his junior season.
• earned all-district honors in his freshman and sophomore seasons.
• two-year football letterman.
• four-year academic all-district pick who worked with special needs children in an art class.
• graduated with a 3.3 GPA.
 
Personal:
• Born Nov. 1, 2002.
• son of Johnette Gambrell and Mark Johnson.
• has five brothers – Rhett, Reid, Chauncey, Collin and Channing – and two sisters, Taylor and Sidney.
• majoring in business administration.
• hopes to play professional baseball or own a construction company.
• life’s ambition is “to win every day through the Lord’s glory.”