Women's Basketball Coaches

Head Coach Jedidiah Johnson

Former Skyhawk basketball standout and Rock Falls native Jedidiah Johnson returns for his second year as the Skyhawks Head Women’s Basketball Coach. He has been the men’s assistant coach under Russ Damhoff for the past four years, and last year was both the men’s assistant and the women’s head coach.

Johnson has decided to focus on the women’s team this year as he has stepped down as the men’s assistant.  Johnson played for Sauk during the 2000-02 seasons. He then transferred to Missouri Baptist University (MBU) in St. Louis where he played basketball for two years. There he was an important part of the MBU Spartan team that qualified for the 2004 NAIA National Tournament. After finishing his playing career, Johnson stayed on at MBU to accept an assistant coaching position under former coach, Tony Tompkins. 

Johnson, who is full-time Coordinator of Sauk Valley Community College Fitness Center and Weight Room, is a Rock Falls High School graduate and was a co-captain on the 1999 Rock Falls state championship basketball team. Johnson earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from MBU in 2007. Johnson is now working on his master’s in sport management and resides in Rock Falls with his wife, Cari and son, Jalen.

Assistant Coach Dave Graca

Dave Graca of Dixon enters his sixth year as assistant women’s basketball coach. He has 19 years of coaching experience as both as an assistant and head coach.  With a career coaching record of 128-2-21, Graca had an interesting career as an assistant and head coach in Europe with the Union Sportive of Vierzon, a socialist team (considered the professional level there) in Vierzon, France. There, he was an assistant coach for five years on the men’s team and head coach for four years of Vierzon’s women’s team.

At the high school level, Graca was head boys’ coach at Newman Central Catholic High School and was an assistant boys’ coach at St. Rita High School in Chicago. Graca feels the key to being a good assistant is being loyal to the head coach and his or her coaching style and goals.

As an athlete, Graca, a U.S. Army veteran, played shortstop for the U.S. Army baseball team and was a member of the team that won the All-U.S. Army Championship. He also played basketball for three years on the U.S. Army basketball team.

Graca, who is retired, resides in Dixon with his wife Elaine (Kielsing).