Northwestern State University Athletics

Brown, a New Iberia native, is one of the most decorated athletes in school history with six track and field all-American awards (three indoor and three outdoor) … was a two-time national high jump champion, winning the 1989 USA Outdoor crown with a leap of 7-7 1/4, then taking the 1990 NCAA Indoor title with a record 7-8 mark … finished fifth in the 1992 USA Olympic Trials and was seventh in the 1996 Trials … also a member of the 1997 USA World Indoor and Outdoor Championship teams … ranked as high as ninth in the world in 1998 when he finished third at the Goodwill Games and seventh in the World Grand Prix Final … coached more than a decade at Drake before he and wife Natasha, a 1992 Olympic relay gold medalist for the USA, came to University of Missouri in 2016.