Norfolk State girls’s basketball standout Diamond Johnson, one of many prime HBCU athletes within the nation, is taking her recreation to the skilled degree.
Johnson made historical past at Norfolk State, main the Spartans to back-to-back MEAC Event championships in 2024 and 2025. She helped Norfolk State, a rising HBCU basketball energy, submit a 30-5 report final season, the most effective in this system’s Division I historical past. The Spartans additionally completed with an ideal 16-0 report in MEAC play and ranked No. 5 within the Faculty Insider Mid-Main High 25 ballot.
Johnson earned MEAC Participant of the 12 months honors for the 2024-25 season. She averaged 18.9 factors, 6.1 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per recreation. Johnson was additionally one of many nation’s finest defensive gamers, rating fifth nationally in steals with 3.6 per recreation.
She surpassed 2,000 profession factors, a significant milestone achieved towards top-level competitors, together with groups from the Massive Ten, ACC, and MEAC. Johnson set Norfolk State Division I data for many factors in a season (663) and most 3-pointers in a season (70). She additionally earned MEAC Event Most Excellent Participant honors and was named to the Daybreak Staley Award Watchlist and the Becky Hammon Mid-Main Participant of the 12 months Watchlist.
Following her remaining school season, Johnson earned MVP honors on the Girls’s Faculty All-Star Sport with a 21-point efficiency. She later obtained a coaching camp contract with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
Johnson just lately signed knowledgeable contract with Hefei of the Girls’s Chinese language Basketball Affiliation (WCBA). Based in 2002, the WCBA is the highest girls’s skilled basketball league in China. Hefei competes within the league’s Group B division, which options 9 groups.
