Tempie Brown enters her fourth season on The Farm after joining the Stanford women's basketball coaching staff in July 2013. Brown works primarily with the Cardinal posts and assists in recruiting efforts.
In her first three seasons on the bench, Stanford has gone 86-18 (.827) and made one Final Four, two Elite Eights and three Sweet Sixteens. The Cardinal has also captured both a Pac-12 regular season (2014) and Pac-12 Tournament championship (2015).
Brown spent the previous four seasons at Michigan State, rising to the position of associate head coach as she helped guide the Spartans to NCAA Tournament appearances in each of her seasons in East Lansing. Over that span, the Spartans went 95-37, including a 46-20 mark in conference play, and the team never finished lower than third in the Big Ten standings.
Under Brown’s tutelage a total of five Spartan guards garnered All-Big Ten recognition, with Jasmine Thomas, Kiana Johnson and Klarissa Bell each being honored in 2013 while Porsche Poole (2012) and Brittney Thomas (2010-11) were also singled out by the conference for their stellar play.
Her work with the quintet led to significant improvements in production. Bell, who averaged just 2.5 points and 2.1 rebounds as a freshman in 2010-11, increased her output to team bests of 10.5 points and 6.1 rebounds as a junior. Both Thomas and Poole more than doubled their scoring averages in each of their senior seasons, en route to team MVP and all-conference recognition.
Off the court, Brown oversaw the team's academic success as the staff's liaison to Student-Athlete Support Services (SASS). The Spartans owned a program-best cumulative team GPA of 3.1731 after the fall 2012 semester and over Brown’s four seasons had 21 student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors, with three being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
In the summer of 2012, Brown attended the Nike Villa 7, which brings together university athletic directors and the country's elite assistant basketball coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball leaders. In the summer of 2009, she completed the NCAA Black Coaches & Administrators Achieving Coaching Excellence (ACE) Program, which provides professional development opportunities for current NCAA collegiate men's and women's basketball coaches.
Including her stint at Michigan State, Brown has spent the past 16 years in the collegiate coaching ranks. Prior to arriving in East Lansing she served as an assistant coach at Memphis (2008-09), Northwestern (2004-08), Lehigh (2002-04), Eastern Michigan (2000-02) and Saginaw Valley State (1999-2000).
Brown graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 with a degree in kinesiology, and later finished her master's degree in exercise physiology in 1992. A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain from 1986-90 with the Wolverines, Brown still 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 All-Big Ten honorable mention in addition to being named the team's most improved player.