2025 marks Brown’s 22^nd season with the Tritons. He started both the Cross Country and Track and Field programs in January of 2004. Iowa Central was won 40 NJCAA National Championships in that time. Since 2010, his programs have amassed 36 total titles in cross country, half marathon, indoor and outdoor track and field – more than ANY other junior college over that time period. In 2018, Brown moved into the position of Director of Track and Field & Cross Country. Brown coaches the men’s and women’s distance athletes for the cross country and track and field programs.

His women’s cross country team has finished among the top six each of the past 18 years and has accumulated an NJCAA record, EIGHT National Cross Country Titles during that time (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019). His men’s cross country team has finished as national runners-up six times (2005, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2022) and won five NJCAA National Championship Titles (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021). The Men’s Half Marathon team owns an NJCAA record EIGHT National Titles (2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021) while the women have tied an NJCAA record of six team titles (2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022). Brown’s men’s Half Marathon team also owns the NJCAA record for the lowest score to win a National Half Marathon title with 6 points, which they did in 2016 and 2017. The Triton men (9) also own the NJCAA record for the most individual Half Marathon National Champions. In 2021, Aspel Kiprob broke the NJCAA Half Marathon record with a time of 1:04:03.6 over the 13.1 mile course.

Brown has been named the National Cross Country Coach of the Year fourteen times: in 2005, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2021 for his men’s team and again in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for his women’s team. In 2010, 2014 and 2017 Brown was named the NJCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year; in 2011 and 2014 he was named the NJCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year; and in 2012 he was named the NJCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year. Brown has been named the Region 11 Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year fifteen times (2005, 07, 08, 09, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22) and the Region 11 Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year seventeen times (2006, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24).

Brown served two terms as the secretary for the NJCAA Track and Field Coaches Association (2007-2012). He also served as the President of the NJCAA Track and Field Coaches Association from 2019-2023. As of 2023, Brown was elected the President of the NJCAA Cross Country Coaches Association and appointed the Vice-President of the NJCAA Track and Field Coaches Association. He has also overseen the NJCAA/USTFCCCA Cross Country rankings from 2005-2012 and again from 2015-present. Brown currently sits on the board of the USTFCCCA.

Over the past twenty one years, sixty-seven men and sixty-five women have earned NJCAA All-America status in cross country (top-15) or the half marathon (top-6). An NJCAA record, nine times, the men have claimed an individual National Champion at the Half-Marathon Classic; Stephen Dak in 2007, Joshua Sawe in 2008, Stanley Kebenei in 2011 and 2012, Tahir Chakisso in 2013, Karim Achengli in 2016 and 2017, and Aspel Kiprob in 2021 and 2022. The men have won two individual NJCAA Cross Country titles, Stanley Kebenei in 2012 and Kelvin Bungei in 2020.

The women have claimed four individual National Cross Country titles, Hannah Maina in 2013, Leanne Pompeani in both 2015 and 2016 and Adva Cohen in 2017.  The women have claimed five individual Half Marathon National Championship titles: Pompeani was victorious in both 2015 and 2016, Cohen in 2017, Winrose Chesang in 2019, and Eleonora Curtabbi in 2020.

The women’s cross country team has been nominated as an NJCAA Academic Team of the Year 16 times while men have achieved that honor seven times. In the half marathon, the women have been nominated 15 times while the men have been nine times. An Academic Team of the Year must have an accumulative grade point average over 3.00 for the entire eligible team during the academic year. In 2006, the women’s cross country team finished with the highest GPA in the Nation, 3.64, among all women’s cross country teams in the NJCAA.

Prior to coaching at Iowa Central, Brown was an Instructor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at Luther College and an assistant Cross Country and Track and Field coach for two years. Brown had worked as an assistant coach at the collegiate level for five years working primarily with distance runners and as a high school head coach at Springfield Cathedral (MA) for two years working with sprints, hurdles, jumps and throws.

In addition to his coaching duties, Brown has served as an adjunct instructor for twenty years, teaching Introduction to Computers. Brown competed in Cross Country and Track and Field while at Luther College in Decorah, IA. His primary events were the steeplechase, 5 kilometers and 10 kilometers. He has also completed three marathons.

Brown and his wife AnnaLisa have four children between them, Caitlyn, Nyssa, Elias and Elora. He earned a BA degree in Computer Science and Business Administration with a minor in Mathematics from Luther College (1996) and a Master of Science in Physical Education from Springfield College (2001) in Springfield, MA. Brown is IAAF Level 5 and USATF Level III certified in Endurance events and is a certified Strength and Conditioning Coach by the USTFCCCA.