Jamie
Brown joined the Thunderbirds in the summer of 2009 after spending three years
as head coach at Chico State where she guided the Wildcats to a 59-98 overall
record, including a 25-28 mark in 2008.
Prior
to her time at Chico State Brown was the head coach at East Stroudsburg State for
four seasons. She led the 2006 ESU team to the NCAA tournament for the first
time since 1982 and recorded the first regional win in the university's
history. Brown
improved her record each year at ESU and posted back-to-back 20-win seasons for
the first time at ESU in a decade. The team's 27 wins in 2005 set a school
record. Her teams also broke school records for most hits, runs, home runs, and
batting average in a season.
Brown
began her coaching career in 1999 as an assistant coach with the Adirondack
Ice, a Women's Major Amateur Softball Association (ASA) team in New York. She
took on both assistant softball and women's basketball duties at Westminster
College in Pennsylvania in the fall of 2009 and in 2000 she moved to the
Division I ranks as an assistant at Wagner College in New York. At Wagner she
coached served as hitting coach and recruiting coordinator, and oversaw
compliance, fundraising and budgeting.
Brown's
first head-coaching job came at Skidmore College in New York in 2001. She
coached there for just one season before taking the position at ESU.
Brown
has several years experience working and running camps and clinics, including
work on the staff at the prestigious UCLA Softball Summer Camp. Brown has also
served as one of eight NCAA Softball Rules Committee members, which governs
all three levels of NCAA softball.
A
four-year staring outfielder at Buffalo State College, Brown received her
bachelor's degree in journalism in 1999 and completed her master's in general
education at the University of Albany in 2002.
