Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike Brown enters his fourth season on the NSU coaching staff, continuing his long working relationship with head coach Anna Nimz after the two coached and rebuilt the program together at Kilgore College.

Brown brings over 20 years of coaching experience to NSU with three stints as a head coach beginning in 1997 at Iowa Central Community College before moving to Upper Iowa University in 2005 and William Penn in 2010.

In his most recent stop at Missouri S&T, Brown served as lead recruiter and academic advisor on the coaching staff. During his three years with the program he helped coach a pair of all-conference players along with a member of the conference's all-freshman team. The Miners also saw increase in academic success under Brown's direction, raising the team grade point average to 3.30 by his final year.

Brown spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Kilgore Junior College in Kilgore, Texas before his time in Missouri. During his tenure at Kilgore, Brown helped guide the Lady Rangers to a 37-25 record and consecutive appearances in the Region XIV Tournament Championship game.

Prior to his time at Kilgore, Brown spent five seasons coaching at William Penn College. He served as an assistant for two seasons before being promoted to head coach prior to the 2012-13 season. During his time as head coach he guided the Statesmen to a 42-47 mark.

In his first season he led the team to a 19-10 record, 9-3 in the Midwest Collegiate Conference which was good for second place. It was the program’s best ever finish in league play. He had eight players earn all-conference honors during his tenure and coached the MCC’s Newcomer of the Year in 2013-14.

Brown was the head coach at Upper Iowa from 2008-2010 where he coached the school’s first-ever Division II all-conference and all-region players in addition to several academic all-region performers.

Before his first jump to Division II, Brown was an assistant and eventual head coach at Iowa Central Community College. Taking over the head coaching position in the 99-00 season, Brown led the Tritons to a 115-78 record in six seasons. During his first season as head coach his squad won the Region XI Tournament title, played in the national tournament, and finished the season ranked eighth in the country. Brown was named the Region XI Coach of the Year that season.

He has coached five All-Americans, dozens of all-conference performers and numerous academic all-region student-athletes.

Brown also has coaching experience at the prep (head sophomore and assistant varsity coach at Des Moines Roosevelt HS from 1996-1997) and NCAA Division I level (student coach at Drake from 1992-1996).

Brown is a 1996 graduate of Drake with a degree in biology. He received his master's degree in business leadership from William Penn in 2014.