Pam Brown was promoted to an assistant coach ahead of the 2023-24 season after four years serving as the director of operations.
She was an integral part of the historic 2023-24 Lady Lions basketball season. The team posted its best sing-season record (22-13) since 2013-14 while making a run to the WBIT Final Four. The squad also achieved its 1,000th program win while shattering other records throughout the season.
Brown completed her fourth season as director of basketball operations in 2022-23. She came to Penn State after spending the previous four years as the director of basketball operations at Marquette under Carolyn Kieger.As the director of operations, Brown as the video coordinator liaison, the camp director and the equipment coordinator and liaison. She also organizes the away team’s shooting and practice schedule prior to home games at the Bryce Jordan Center.
While at Marquette, Brown was responsible for managing the scheduling and equipment for the program, overseeing the video coordinator and serving as the scouting coordinator. She also served as statistical analyst for Marquette and oversaw the managers and practice players. Brown was also the Marquette Women’s Basketball Camp Director.
Brown was an assistant coach at Stetson for three seasons prior to joining Kieger’s staff at Marquette. While with the Hatters, Brown worked primarily with the post players and mentored Amber Porter to Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year and first-team all-conference honors. Brown helped Stetson post its fifth-straight 20-plus win season in 2014-15.
Prior to her arrival at Stetson, Brown served as a graduate assistant at the University of North Texas where she was pursuing a master’s degree in recreation and leisure studies. She also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Winthrop University and two seasons as coordinator of basketball operations for women’s basketball at the University of Miami (Fla.).
The Coppell, Texas, native enjoyed a four-year career with the Charlotte 49ers basketball team where she was a two-year starter and an All-Atlantic 10 performer. Averaging better than 10 points per game in all four seasons, Brown finished her career with 1,443 points, 627 rebounds, and 114 assists. Brown was named to the first-team All-Atlantic 10 squad as a senior following a season in which she averaged 12.9 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the floor. During her tenure at Charlotte, she helped guide the 49ers to two league titles and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2003. The program also made three-straight WNIT appearances from 2004-06.
A member of the Dean’s List, Brown graduated from Charlotte in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics.
In 2006-07, Brown played for the Celeritudo Tigers in Groningen, Holland, where she averaged 17.1 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. She shot 56 percent from the field, ranked third in the league in blocks, and was named to the league’s all-star team.