San José State, 1980
Dr. Stacey R. Johnson was an honorary inductee into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame on June 11, 2017 in Orlando, Fla.
Johnson is the Class of 2017's Honorary inductee. The honorary designation is awarded to a former distinguished scholar-athlete whose collegiate career pre-dated the Academic All-America program in his/her particular sport.
She has served as President of Valencia College's East and Winter Park campuses (Orlando, Florida) since the summer of 2012.
One of the most decorated fencers in United States collegiate and national history, Johnson competed for San José State from 1976 to 1979. Named an All-American every season, she also was a two-time National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association champion and led the Spartans to two team national championships.
As part of the United States national fencing program, Johnson was a three-time United States national team champion, competed in the 1977 and 1979 World University Games and was a 1980 U.S. Olympian.
She continued her service to the Olympics by serving on the U.S. Olympic Committee's Board of Directors from 1996 to 2004, and was elected to the USOC Executive Committee for 2003-2004.
In addition, Johnson served as president of the U.S. Fencing Association from 2000 to 2004, and was the first woman in the organization's 125-year history to serve four terms as president.
A standout academically at San José State, she earned her bachelor's degree in public relations in 1980. Johnson went on to receive a masters of arts in communications from Incarnate Word University (San Antonio, Texas) before earning her doctorate in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied in the university's Community College Leadership Program.
Prior to her position at Valencia, Johnson was vice president of academic affairs at Palo Alto College (San Antonio, Texas) from 2007-12. While in San Antonio, Johnson also founded the "Dreams for Youth" San Antonio Sports Foundation, which received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Olympic Committee for its work in serving 100,000 children.