Tempie Brown

Tempie Brown returned for her second stint as an assistant coach at Stanford prior to the 2023-24 season and promoted to the position of Harry K. and Ida S. Berland Associate Head Women's Basketball Coach on April 23, 2024. Brown previously worked with the Cardinal for seven seasons from 2013-14 through 2019-20.

In her eight total seasons with the Cardinal, Stanford has gone 230-56 (.804) and made two Final Fours, four Elite Eights and seven Sweet Sixteens. The Cardinal has captured two Pac-12 regular season (2014, 2024) and three Pac-12 Tournament championships (2015, 2017, 2019) during her tenure.

In her previous stint primarily working with Stanford's posts, Brown helped oversee the likes of All-American and current WNBA player Alanna Smith, as well as an honorable mention All-American and now fellow coach Erica McCall. Brown also helped Stanford assemble five consecutive top-10 classes on the recruiting trail.

In 2023-24, the Cardinal's post tandem of Cameron Brink and Kiki Iriafen were recognized as the best at their position when the Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Coaches Association revealed their Naismith Starting 5. Iriafen was named the winner of the 2024 Katrina McClain Award, recognizing the nation's best power forward, and Brink was voted the winner of the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award, given to the country's top center. It was the first time Stanford had two players average a double-double in the same season since Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike in 2011-12, and in national records dating back to 1999-2000, it was also the first time a school had two players average 17.0 points and 11.0 rebounds for an entire season.
 
Upon leaving Stanford in 2020, Brown moved to Michigan and worked as an athletic director for Okemos Public Schools.

Prior to her arrival on The Farm in 2013, Brown spent four years at Michigan State, rising to the position of associate head coach as she helped guide the Spartans to NCAA Tournament appearances each season, as well as the program's first Big Ten title in 2011.
 
Brown has spent more than two decades in the collegiate coaching ranks. Before her time in at Michigan State, 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.
 
Brown and her wife, Malissa Burke, have two children, Lucas and Vivian.