Chris Brown is entering his fourth season at the helm of the Yellowjacket baseball program in 2008-2009. In his first season, the team went 15-35 overall and 13-27 in the Heartland Conference. In the Jackets' second year of competition, they were 24-26 overall and 16-20 in the conference. Last season, the Yellowjackets joined the Great Northwest Athletic Conference where the team compiled a 14-38 record overall and a 5-25 record in conference play.
Brown was the head coach for two seasons at Bemidji State University, a Division II school in Bemidji, Minn., but left the Beavers immediately to begin recruiting at MSU Billings. At Bemidji, Brown was the first coach in the program's 54 year history to post back-to-back seasons of more than 10 conference wins.
Before he was promoted to head coach in the summer of 2002 and was an assistant coach at Bemidji State for two years. As an assistant, he served as the team’s recruiting coordinator and pitching coach. He spent one season as an assistant coach at Jamestown College (ND), where he was a pitcher for four years and graduated in 2000.
During the summers, Brown has taken USA baseball team of mostly college seniors who have completed their eligibility and did not get drafted overseas to compete in different tournaments. Most notably, he went to the World Down Under Games in Australia where his team won a gold medal. Over the summer, he has taken teams to Belgium, Prague, Holland and Aruba.
He and his wife Heather (Kelley) have one son named Brevik who is one year old. |
