Willow Johnson (26), the daughter of Major League Baseball (MLB) legend Randy Johnson (61), will play in the South Korean professional volleyball V-League.
According to the volleyball world, the Heungkuk Life women's volleyball team parted ways with foreign player Yelena Mrazenovic (27-registered name Yelena) and signed Johnson as her replacement. Johnson reportedly arrived in South Korea on Tuesday night and joined the squad.
Yelena made her V-League debut with KGC Ginseng Corporation (now Chung Kwan-jang) in 2021 and moved to Heungkuk Life last season, where she played alongside Kim Yeon-kyung (36) as the "Ssangpo" and led the team to the top of the regular season. However, Johnson's performance declined sharply this season and he was mired in an attitude controversy, and he was eventually replaced midseason.
Johnson is a 6-foot-6 apogee spiker who, like his father, is left-handed. 바카라사이트 He earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-American honors in 2018 at Oregon State University and has played in the Turkkiye League and the American Athletes Unlimited Pro League.
He participated in the V-League's foreign player tryouts in 2022 and last year in hopes of making it to the Korean stage, but was not selected. According to V-League rules, if a club wants to replace a foreign player during the season, it must choose from the players who participated in the tryouts.
Johnson is the third of four children his father, Randy Johnson, had with his current wife. Randy Johnson is a legendary pitcher who won five Cy Young Awards, MLB's highest pitching honor, and was a 10-time All-Star. He retired from active play in 2006 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.