Johnson voted Lady Vol Athlete of the Week

After making a career-high nine saves and stopping one shot during the penalty-kick shootout against Duke in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, sophomore goalkeeper Jaimel Johnson earned her second Lady Vol Athlete of the Week award of the season via a unanimous vote by the Lady Vol media relations staff. Johnson made 12 stops during 189 minutes of spotless play in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. In her first action in a month due to injury, the Dayton, Ohio, product collected three saves in the 4-0 shutout of UAB on Friday night. Johnson followed that performance by posting her second 110-minute clean sheet of the season in the Sunday affair against Duke, with her nine saves topping the eight she made earlier in the year in a 2-1 win over No. 12 Florida. With no winner determined in the four periods of field play, Johnson stepped up again, stopping the first shot by the Blue Devils to give the momentum and the eventual advantage to Tennessee, as it moved on in the national draw with the 4-3 shootout win. It marks the fourth time in five seasons the Lady Vols have advanced into the “Sweet 16” in NCAA play. Johnson was earlier picked as the SEC Defensive Player and Lady Vol Athlete of the Week on Sept. 4, following UT’s 1-0 win over then-No. 6 Virginia, which was the sophomore’s first career solo shutout. The Lady Vols now prepare for the regional semifinal match-up against top-seed North Carolina at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill, N.C.