NDSU

2013 & 2018 Summit League Champions
2013 & 2018 Summit League Coach of the Year
2023-24 WGCA All-Scholar Team GPA Award - Highest GPA in NCAA Division I
Has developed 18 All-Conference selections
Coached Amy Anderson, who was a three-time All-American and played in the LPGA.

The North Dakota State women's golf program has developed into one of the premier programs in The Summit League under head coach Matt Johnson. He was hired as the sixth coach in program history in June 2009.

Johnson helped the Bison register the lowest team scoring average in program history for the third straight season in 2024-25 with a 297.5 scoring average. In the 2023-24 season, NDSU carried that success into the classroom after capturing the Women's Golf Coaches Assocation (WGCA) All-Scholar Team GPA Award posting a 3.94 GPA, which was the highest in NCAA Division I. The Bison also had six players named to the WGCA All-American Scholar Team with Cora Larson, Leah Skaar, Catherine Monty, Madi Hicks, Elise Hoven and Norah Roberts each earning a spot.

In the 2022-23 season, Johnson helped the Bison notch a single round scoring average of 299.9, which ranks second all-time in Bison history. Madi Hicks and Elise Hoven were both named to the All-Summit League Second Team, while Hicks also became only the second player in program history to earn Summit League Newcomer of the Year honors. As a team, the Bison registered a 3.80 cumulative GPA in 2022-23 to earn the WGCA All-Scholar Team GPA  Award to go along with six student-athletes being selected as WGCA All-American Scholars.

The Bison notched a four-player stroke average of 304.2 in 2021-22, which ranks fifth all-time in NDSU history. NDSU also excelled in the classroom with six student-athletes earning WGCA All-American honors. The Bison recorded the fifth-best cumulative GPA in NCAA Division I with a 3.86.

NDSU had a four-player stroke average of 303.5 in the 2019-20 season, the fourth lowest in school history. All 10 of the best team stroke averages for a season have come under Johnson.

In 2017-18, Johnson helped guide the Bison to their second Summit League Women's Golf Championship and NCAA regional appearance in program history. NDSU also set a new team scoring average record, posting a 302.7 stroke average, and won five tournaments -- tying the single-season program record originally set in 2012-13.

Natalie Roth was voted All-Summit League First Team for the third time in her career and earned Golfer of the Year honors, while Johnson was voted the league's Coach of the Year for the second time in his career.

In 2012-13, North Dakota State won its first conference title in program history and qualified for the NCAA regional as a team for the first time. The Bison won five tournaments and finished the regular season winning three straight, which tied a program record for most consecutive victories.

Johnson coached former NDSU standout golfers Amy Olson (Anderson) and Roth. Olson, who went on to play on the LPGA Tour, is the NDSU and NCAA Division I women's golf career wins (20) and top-10 finishes (39) record holder, and holds the NDSU career scoring average record at 73.21. Roth is the North Dakota State career rounds leader (120) and ranks second in career scoring average at 75.03.

Johnson was NDSU's head men's golf coach for three seasons from 2001 to 2004. Under his direction, the Bison qualified for the NCAA tournament for the first time in 13 years in 2004.

His Bison men's team ranked as high as 23rd in the Golfstat collegiate rankings in 2003-04 and had two individual NCAA regional qualifiers in Jon Miller and Todd Taverna.

Prior to his time as the head men’s golf coach at NDSU, Johnson owned an indoor golf and sports facility in Fargo before selling the business in 2012 and moving into the full-time role as head women’s golf coach at NDSU.

Johnson earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Valley City State in 1994. He won the North Dakota College Athletic Conference individual championship in 1993 and was a three-time all-conference and all-district performer for the Vikings. Additionally, Johnson earned NAIA All-America Scholar Athlete honors in 1993. He was recently named to the Valley City State Viking Athletic Hall of Fame in 2021.