Truman State head coach Erin Brown has announced her intention to step down from her post at the conclusion of the 2019 season.
According to a university press release, Brown is leaving her position due to a family move to Troy, Missouri, where her husband has taken a position as a high school principal.
Brown is in her thirteenth season as the Bulldogs’ head coach, and is the winningest coach in program history, with more than 300 career wins at the school. Brown owns a .528 career winning percentage in her decade-plus with the Bulldogs, and her 319 victories are more than double the mark of the second-winningest coach for the program.
Currently competing in the Great Lakes Valley Conference in Division II, the Bulldogs have reached the NCAA tournament four times under Brown’s guidance. She helped lead the program through a conference transition in 2013, and posted the program’s second-highest win total in history, with 43 wins in the first year in the GLVC.
A former Truman State player, Brown spent three seasons in a Bulldog uniform, reaching the NCAA tournament each time. The Bulldogs recorded a program-record forty-six wins during the 1999 season during Brown’s tenure. In 2000, Brown finished second on the team with fourteen stolen bases.
The Bulldogs currently sit at 3-0 to begin the 2019 season, and will begin GLVC play on March 16th.
