Head Coach Chris Brown is entering his fifth season at the helm of the Yellowjacket baseball program in 2009-2010. 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. In 2007-08, 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.
Last season, Brown guided the Yellowjackets to a 24-28 record matching the most wins since baseball was reinstated at MSUB in 2006. In addition, the Yellowjackets went 16-16 in the GNAC and finished second behind Western Oregon. In the preseason poll, the Yellowjackets were picked fifth out of five teams.
Prior to MSUB, Brown was the head coach at Bemidji State University for two seasons, a Division II school in Bemidji, Minn. , but left the Beavers to begin recruiting at MSUB. 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, he was an assistant coach at BSU 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 in North Dakota, where he was a pitcher for four years and graduated in 2000.
During the summers, Brown has taken a 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 summers, he has taken teams to Belgium, Prague, Holland and Aruba.
He and his wife Heather (Kelley) have one son named Brevik who is two years old. |
