UCF women’s basketball head coach Gabe Lazo announced on Apr. 15 the signing of Mikayla Johnson, a former guard from the University of Pittsburgh, to join the team’s roster for the 2026-27 season.
Johnson, originally from Anchorage, Alaska, played an important role for Pitt over the past two seasons. She appeared in all but three games since the start of the 2024-25 season and led her team in scoring last year with an average of 13 points per game. This marks her second consecutive season averaging double-digit points.
Known as a versatile scorer, Johnson recorded at least ten points in twenty games last season and had five performances where she scored more than twenty points. Her shooting improved to a field goal percentage of 33.2 percent while playing more than thirty minutes per game. On defense, she averaged over five rebounds per contest and contributed with forty-three steals and twenty-four blocks during her time at Pittsburgh.
Johnson also showed growth at the free-throw line by increasing her accuracy to nearly seventy-six percent last season compared to sixty-four percent previously. In addition to scoring in double figures in ten out of Pitt’s final eleven games this year—including a fourteen-point, ten-rebound double-double against SMU—she set a career-high with twenty-seven points versus Virginia during her sophomore campaign.
Before transferring to Pitt, Johnson began her college career at Colorado after graduating early from Bartlett High School in Anchorage where she was named Cook Inlet Conference Player of the Year as a junior.
Lazo’s first signing as head coach brings experience and scoring ability to UCF’s program as it looks ahead to future seasons.
