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Tempie Brown

Player Profile
Position:
Assistant Coach
Experience:
Third Season

Tempie Brown finished her second season on the MSU women's basketball staff. Brown was hired to head coach Suzy Merchant's staff as an assistant coach in June 2009. With Michigan State, Brown is the staff's academic liaison, strength and conditioning coordinator, and perimeter position coach, while also playing a key role in scouting their upcoming opponents.

Brown spent the 2008-09 season as an assistant coach at the University of Memphis, following coaching stops at Northwestern, Lehigh, Eastern Michigan and Saginaw Valley State.

Prior to Memphis, Brown spent four seasons (2004-08) as an assistant coach at Northwestern. With the Wildcats, she oversaw the team's player development, scouting, recruiting and compliance, while also acting as the director for Northwestern's summer basketball camp. Her recruiting expertise helped secure NU the No. 18 recruiting class in the country in 2007. Brown was at Lehigh from 2002-04. In her two seasons, she directed the Mountain Hawks' guards, while also assisting in recruiting, strength & conditioning and compliance.

Brown's first stop as a Division I collegiate coach came at Eastern Michigan under Coach Merchant and along side MSU associate head coach Shane Clipfell. They spent two years together (2001-02), winning a then-school record 18 wins in Brown's first season with the Eagles. On staff, she handled academics, strength & conditioning, compliance and film exchange. Brown broke into the coaching world at the high school and AAU ranks, and made her collegiate debut in 2000 at Saginaw Valley State.

A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain at the University of Michigan (1986-90), Brown ranks among the program's top-15 scorers with 1,142 points, in addition to sitting in the top-20 in career assists and steals. As a sophomore, she was recognized as an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection, in addition to being named the team's most improved player.

Brown graduated from Michigan in 1990 with a degree in kinesiology, and later finished her master's degree in exercise physiology in 1992. She has also pursued course work in the doctorate program at Michigan State.