Alma College

Keisha Brown, a former star student-athlete at Tulane Universitywho has coached the Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart Academy boysbasketball team to a 79 percent winning percentage between theyears of 2003 and 2009, was named the head women's basketball coachat Alma College on July 1, 2009.

During her tenure at Sacred Heart Academy, the school compiled arecord of 114-30 (79%), and her 2006 squad was the Class D staterunner-up. In addition, her teams won five consecutive leaguechampionships, four district titles and three regional titles. Shefirst joined the school in 2001. Brown was responsible for theoverall management of the boys basketball program.

Brown's first coaching position was from 1997-2000 with theSouthern Belles Basketball Club in New Orleans, La., coaching thesquad to the 2000 Louisiana State Championship. She became juniorvarsity coach for the Sacred Heart Academy's girls program in 2001,while also coaching the AAU Central Basketball Club in Mt.Pleasant. In 2002-03, she coached the junior varsity boys at SacredHeart before becoming head coach in 2003. Brown also has beenathletic director and a counselor for Sacred Heart since 2006.

In college, Brown played at Tulane University in New Orleans,where she was a four-year all-conference player. She was inductedinto the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame and is the only player inschool history to score over 1,000 career points and record over1,000 career rebounds. Brown is also the all-time school leader intotal rebounds and rebound average.

She played professionally for Tamperen-Pyrinto in Finland from1994-1996 and averaged 23 points and 15 rebounds during her career.Brown also was named as the league's Most Valuable Player duringher time in Finland.