PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) - The commissioner of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association has been named the new athletics director at Pittsburg State University.

Jim Johnson will be introduced Friday as the new athletic director, Pittsburg State President said Thursday.

Johnson will begin the job on Aug. 23. He'll replace Chuck Broyles, who in May announced that he would begin phased retirement.

Johnson was chosen from more than 50 applicants after a national search. He will be paid $120,000.

Before going to MIAA in 2007, Johnson was athletics director at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Before that he was associate athletics director at the University of Central Missouri.


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