| Trisha Brown | ||
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Title | Head Women's Basketball Coach |
| trishab@stonehill.edu | ||
| Phone | 508-565-1124 | |
Now in her seventh season as the sideline mentor for Stonehill women's basketball, Trisha Brown has continued and enhanced the excellence that the Skyhawk program has enjoyed at the regional and national levels for the past three-plus decades.
Stonehill has averaged a shade under 20 wins per season in Brown's first six years, including four actual 20 win seasons. She has guided the Skyhawks to the NCAA Tournament on four separate occasions and a .663 winning percentage along the way.
Just the third women's basketball coach in Stonehill history, she has already moved ahead of her predecessor, Kelly Hart, in terms of the number of career wins with 118 victories entering this season.
Last season could've been Brown's best, recording 22 wins after losing two-fifths of her starting lineup to injuries for either all or most of the regular season. Despite those factors, the Skyhawks won 15 games in the Northeast-10 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
The Skyhawks posted their highest single-season victory mark in eight years in 2006-07 with a 24-7 overall record, including a 17-5 slate in Northeast-10 play that was good for second place in the Conference. Brown's success was recognized with the selection of Alisha Collins ?07 as the Northeast-10 and ECAC Division II Player of the Year and Kelsey Simonds being tabbed as the Conference's Freshman of the Year. Stonehill earned its first Northeast-10 Final Four appearance in seven years and advanced to the NCAA Northeast Regional Semifinals for the third time during Brown's tenure, as the Skyhawks bested New Haven in the NCAA opening round before falling to eventual national runner-up American International in the round of 32.
Stonehill posted a 22-8 mark during her second season at the helm in 2002-2003 en route to a Sweet Sixteen berth and a trip to the NCAA Division II Northeast Regional Championship game. The Skyhawks returned to the NCAA Northeast Regional semifinals after posting a 21-8 mark during the 2003-2004 season, as Brown mentored a pair of 1,000 point scorers in Kristen McDonnell ?03 and Andrea Barr ?04.
Prior to her arrival at Stonehill, Brown helped lead Harvard to five Ivy League Championships as a part of Kathy Delaney-Smith's staff where she was responsible for assisting her mentor with all aspects of the Crimson program and additionally served as Harvard's recruiting coordinator for four seasons.
She helped guide Harvard to a school-record 23 victories in 1997-98 as the Crimson became the first No. 16 seed in NCAA Tournament history (men's or women's) to upset a No. 1 seed, as Harvard ended Stanford's 59-game home win streak.
A 1987 graduate of Harvard, Brown was one of Delaney-Smith's first recruits and captained the Crimson's first Ivy League championship team in 1985-86, a squad that posted a 20-7 mark. A two-time, team co-captain, she received Harvard's Most Improved Award in 1985.
A two-sport athlete during her career in Cambridge, she was named to Harvard's Silver Anniversary Team for softball in 1988-89 as part of the celebration of 25 years of women's athletics in the Ivy League.
