Chris [nl]Brown, who served as an assistant coach for the Augsburg College men’s hockey team in the 1996-97 season, will return to Augsburg as men’s athletic equipment supervisor and men’s hockey assistant coach.<\/p>\n
Brown was head coach at Marian College for four seasons, 2000-2004, compiling a 65-36-7 record, and was head coach for the Hamline University men’s hockey team in the 2004-05 season, compiling a 4-20-1 record.<\/p>\n
Brown was an assistant coach for the Auggies during Mike Schwartz’s first season as head coach at Augsburg. He also served as the college’s sports information director during the 1996-97 school year.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to be able to get a person of Chris’ caliber to come back and be a part of our program,” Schwartz said. “It’s great for our players.”<\/p>\n
Brown will replace Augsburg alumnus Brad Schwartzbauer in the assistant coach and men’s athletic equipment supervisor positions. Schwartzbauer served in the positions for the 2004-05 school year.<\/p>\n
Brown played collegiate hockey at the Wisconsin-River Falls, where he was a captain of the Falcons’ 1993-94 NCAA Division III national championship team. He scored 43 goals and had 57 assists for his 100 points in his 115-game collegiate career, earning NCHA All-Academic honors twice. He also played two seasons of junior hockey in the U.S. Hockey Association in Waterloo, Iowa., prior to playing at Wisconsin-River Falls.<\/p>\n
Brown left Augsburg in 1997 to serve as an assistant coach at Alaska-Anchorage of the WCHA, which was led at the time by his former River Falls coach, Dean Talafous. He coordinated all recruiting efforts for the Seawolves during his three-season tenure there.<\/p>\n
In 2000, Brown took over as head coach for Marian. The Sabres won MCHA regular-season titles in 2001- 02 and 2003-04, while winning postseason conference tournament titles in 2000- 01 and 2001-02. He compiled a 65-36-7 record at Marian, including a 51-8-3 league record and a conference-record 27-game winning streak. His 2001-02 Sabres squad went 16-0-0 to become the first MCHA team to ever claim an unbeaten league season. He earned MCHA Coach of the Year honors in 2001-02 and 2003-04, and was a finalist for the American Hockey Coaches Association’s Division III National Coach of the Year award three times.<\/p>\n
Brown also served as men’s golf head coach at Marian.<\/p>\n
Brown earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism with an economics minor from Wisconsin-River Falls in 1994, and earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership and quality from Marian. He also served as a sports editor and reporter for the Hastings (Minn.) Star-Gazette newspaper prior to starting his coaching career.<\/p>\n
Brown is a member of the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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