The New Mexico State head women’s basketball coach Brooke Atkinson announced the hiring of assistant coach DeAudra Brown to the Aggie staff for 2017-18.
“DeDe comes from two nationally known junior college programs with championship pedigree,” Atkinson said. “She is very skilled in the player development department and will bring recruiting contacts from different regions. DeDe is a young coach that is on the fast track to success and is very passionate about working with student-athletes.”
Brown joins NM State after two seasons as an assistant coach at Seward County Community College. In those years at Seward County, Brown helped lead the Lady Saints to a 57-11 overall record along with a pair of appearances in the National Junior College Athletic Association Region VI Tournament Game and one in the NJCAA National Tournament.
With Brown’s help, the Lady Saints also went 39-6 in conference play over the past two seasons, finishing 2nd in 2016 and serving as co-champions last season.
Brown’s first season at Seward was a memorable one as the Lady Saints breezed to a 25-8 record, marking the programs 24th straight year with at least 20 wins. The Lady Saints finished as the runner-up in both their conference standings and the NJCAA Region VI Tournament where they fell in the championship game to Cowley.
In her time at Seward, Brown coached seven all-conference players with the Lady Saints and helped three sign at the NCAA Division I level. A leader off the court as well, Brown helped the Lady Saints in the classroom to an NJCAA Academic Team of the Year recognition with a 3.56 team grade point average in 2017.
This past March, Brown received a huge honor as she was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Thirty Under 30 list. This award was established to honor 30 of the up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches age 30 and under in the sport at all levels of the game.
Prior to her time at Seward County, Brown spent two years on the staff at Eastern Arizona College with fellow Aggie assistant coach Ryan McAdams who was head coach at the time.
With Brown’s help, EAC was nationally ranked for 12 weeks and reached as high as No. 5 in 2014-15. The team tallied 27 overall wins and 20 conference victories, which earned them a share of the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference title.
In 2013-14, during Brown’s first season, the Gila Monsters made the program’s first trip to the national tournament after earning ACCAC Region I runner-up honors and finished with a 23-9 overall record.
As a player, Brown starred at both Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Va. and Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, N.C. She spent her first three years at Saint Paul’s and was named the team’s rookie of the year as a freshman and their most valuable player as a junior.
When Saint Paul’s disbanded their athletics programs, Brown transferred to Elizabeth City where she played in all 27 games for the Vikings, averaging 7.4 points and 2.4 assists per game as a senior.
Brown is a native of Rocky Mount, N.C. and holds a degree in business administration management information system.
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