Transylvania University Men's Tennis

Brown, in his 16th season as Transylvania's head men's and women's tennis coach in 2015-16. In the 2014-15 season, Brown had eight players named to the HCAC All-Conference teams   four women and four men. The men's team also saw an impressive seven players named Academic All-Conference. He has won 11 HCAC Coach of the Year awards, eight for the men and three for the women's team, and he led the men's team to 68 consecutive HCAC match wins from 2002 until 2011. Brown led the Transy women's team to its first HCAC tournament title and into the NCAA tourney for the first time in 2009-10 and was named Coach of the Year award for women's tennis while guiding both teams into the NCAA Championship in the same year for the first time in school history. From 2002-10, a Transy player was named HCAC Men's Tennis Player of the year. A Transy women's tennis player was MVP in 2011, the second to win the honor in a row. Transylvania earned its fourth straight spot in the men's NCAA Division III Championships in 2010 before seeing its streak snapped in the HCAC tourney finals in 2011. Brown  has been named Southern Division College Coach of the Year by the U.S. Professional Tennis Association on two occasions. The USPTA Coach of the Year award goes to an NCAA Division I, II, or III coach or to one from an NAIA or NJCAA school who is also a certified tennis professional. The southern division comprises schools from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Brown was also named Coach of the Year by the Kentucky division of the U. S. Tennis Association for both the 2006 and 2009 seasons. Also head coach of the Transy women's team, Brown led the Pioneers to their first HCAC championship in 2009 and will guided the team to its first NCAA Division III Championship appearance in the spring of 2010. He coached the women's team to its first appearance in the HCAC tournament in 2008. Transy was also third in the conference's flighted tournament. The Pioneers placed two players on the All-HCAC team and also featured the league's Freshman of the Year in 2008-09. Brown experienced success immediately as a head coach, leading Transy's men to a third place finish in the HCAC in his first season. Transy's women were also third that year and sixth in 2003. Individual honors have also come the Pioneers' way as Ethan Busald was named HCAC Player of the Year for the unprecedented fourth straight year in 2005, the first in HCAC history to accomplish that feat. He also earned national attention in Sports Illustrated Magazine. A 1999 graduate of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., Brown earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business, majoring in Marketing and Professional Tennis Management. Brown has also been the tennis professional at the Danville Country Club and was a volunteer assistant at the University of Kentucky. Brown graduated from the prestigious Professional Tennis Management Program at FSU. He taught tennis at the Kentucky Tennis Academy, Four Seasons Sports Country Club in Crestview Hills, Ky., and Orchard Hills Racquet Club in Grand Rapids, Mich., and served as the men's tennis coach at Thomas More College in 1999-2000. As a player, Brown was a varsity player and captain at Meridian Community College, where he qualified for the regional semifinals in both singles and doubles and finished third in Mississippi in the NJCAA Tournament. Brown is also a certified P-1 tennis professional with the United States Professional Tennis Association and a certified Racquet Technician with the United States Racquet Stringers Association.