Story Links WBCA Next Generation Institute FORT MYERS, Fla. – Third-year assistant coach Camryn Brown was selected to participate in the WBCA Next Generation Institute, an education program specifically designed for high-level assistant coaches. Brown is one of just 32 coaches selected to the program. Brown and Coretta Brown from Eastern Kentucky are the only two representatives from the Atlantic Sun Conference. The institute will be held at the WBCA Convention April 3-6 in Tampa, Florida. Former FGCU women's basketball head coach and now head man of the Atlanta Dream Karl Smesko located and brought Brown onto the Eagles' staff in July of 2022. Since then, Brown has helped direct FGCU to a 69-11 record, a 33-1 mark in the ASUN, two ASUN tournament championships and one NCAA First Round victory over Washington State.FGCU posted a 33-win campaign during Brown's first season with the Eagles, and an undefeated conference season in year two. The Eagles led the nation in made 3-pointers and 3-pointers per game in 2023, draining 11.5 trifectas per contest. FGCU hit 425 triples during that season, the third-most made threes in a single season in NCAA women's basketball history.FGCU has obtained the nation's second-longest home win streak since Brown joined the staff. The Eagles have won 37 consecutive home games at Alico Arena with the last loss occurring Dec. 11, 2022, against Duke, over two years ago. A 2020 graduate of High Point University, Brown played her final collegiate season for Chelsea Banbury, a former Green and Blue standout under Smesko and a five-year associate head coach at FGCU who took over head coaching duties at High Point. Brown played in 121 games, making 90 starts, during her four years with the Panthers and recorded 1,305 points. Brown was named the Big South Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year after a remarkable senior season at HPU, where she made 10 3-pointers and dropped 44 points in a game against Winthrop to break the school and conference records in both categories. Print Friendly Version

Brown selected to participate in WBCA Next Generation Institute

Story Links WBCA Next Generation Institute FORT MYERS, Fla. – Third-year assistant coach Camryn Brown was selected to participate in the WBCA Next Generation Institute, an education program specifically designed for high-level assistant coaches. Brown is one of just 32 coaches selected to the program. Brown and Coretta Brown from Eastern Kentucky are the only two representatives […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Third-year assistant coach Camryn Brown was selected to participate in the WBCA Next Generation Institute, an education program specifically designed for high-level assistant coaches.

Brown is one of just 32 coaches selected to the program. Brown and Coretta Brown from Eastern Kentucky are the only two representatives from the Atlantic Sun Conference. The institute will be held at the WBCA Convention April 3-6 in Tampa, Florida.

Former FGCU women’s basketball head coach and now head man of the Atlanta Dream Karl Smesko located and brought Brown onto the Eagles’ staff in July of 2022. Since then, Brown has helped direct FGCU to a 69-11 record, a 33-1 mark in the ASUN, two ASUN tournament championships and one NCAA First Round victory over Washington State.

FGCU posted a 33-win campaign during Brown’s first season with the Eagles, and an undefeated conference season in year two. The Eagles led the nation in made 3-pointers and 3-pointers per game in 2023, draining 11.5 trifectas per contest. FGCU hit 425 triples during that season, the third-most made threes in a single season in NCAA women’s basketball history.

FGCU has obtained the nation’s second-longest home win streak since Brown joined the staff. The Eagles have won 37 consecutive home games at Alico Arena with the last loss occurring Dec. 11, 2022, against Duke, over two years ago.

A 2020 graduate of High Point University, Brown played her final collegiate season for Chelsea Banbury, a former Green and Blue standout under Smesko and a five-year associate head coach at FGCU who took over head coaching duties at High Point. Brown played in 121 games, making 90 starts, during her four years with the Panthers and recorded 1,305 points.

Brown was named the Big South Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year after a remarkable senior season at HPU, where she made 10 3-pointers and dropped 44 points in a game against Winthrop to break the school and conference records in both categories.