Brown Named to A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of FameBrown Named to A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame
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Brown Named to A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame

STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford's Tempie Brown has been named to the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2024, it was announced Wednesday.
 
The Class of 2024 will be inducted into the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame on Tuesday, May 21, in Charlotte, N.C. during the Symposium's Hall of Fame Induction Breakfast at the Hilton University Place Hotel. 
 
Brown is the third Cardinal assistant to be enshrined. Amy Tucker was in the inaugural class in 2019 and Kate Paye went in in 2023. In 2019, A STEP UP, Inc. became the first to exclusively recognize NCAA men and women 'assistant' basketball college coaches with the distinction of the Hall of Fame honor at the inaugural induction ceremony in Atlanta.
 
Last May, Brown returned for her second stint as an assistant coach at Stanford, previously working with the Cardinal for seven seasons from 2013-14 through 2019-20.
 
In her now nearly eight seasons on the bench, Stanford has gone 228-55 (.806) and made two Final Fours, four Elite Eights and six Sweet Sixteens. The Cardinal has also captured two Pac-12 regular-season titles (2014, 2024) and three Pac-12 Tournament championships (2015, 2017, 2019). Brown also helped Stanford assemble five consecutive top-10 ranked recruiting classes. 
 
Prior to her arrival on The Farm, Brown spent 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. 
 
Before her time 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.