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Augsburg College Athletics Staff -- Chris Brown
Chris Brown (Wisconsin-River Falls '94) was named head coach of the Augsburg College men's hockey team in April 2006. He also serves as an instructor in Augsburg's health and physical education department, while previously serving for three years (2005-08) as men's athletic equipment supervisor. In the 2006-07 season, Brown earned MIAC Coach of the Year honors, after leading the Auggies to the MIAC playoffs for the first time after a three-year absence. Brown was an assistant coach for the Auggies during Mike Schwartz's first season as head coach at Augsburg. He also served as the college's sports information director during the 1996-97 school year. He returned to Augsburg in the 2005-06 season to serve as an assistant coach. Brown also served as chairman of the NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey national committee in 2005-06. Brown served for four seasons (2000-04) as head coach at Marian College (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and was head coach for the Hamline University men's hockey team in the 2004-05 season. He has a 87-83-14 career coaching record. Brown played collegiate hockey at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he was a captain of the Falcons' 1993-94 NCAA Division III national championship team. He scored 43 goals and had 57 assists for his 100 points in his 115-game collegiate career, earning Northern Collegiate Hockey Association All-Academic honors twice. He also played two seasons of junior hockey in the U.S. Hockey Association in Waterloo, Iowa., prior to playing at Wisconsin-River Falls. Brown left Augsburg in 1997 to serve as an assistant coach at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, a Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association program led at the time by his former Wisconsin-River Falls coach, Dean Talafous. He coordinated all recruiting efforts for the Seawolves during his three-season tenure. In 2000, Brown took over as head coach for Marian (Wis.), a Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association program. The Sabres won MCHA regular-season titles in 2001-02 and 2003-04, while winning postseason conference tournament titles in 2000-01 and 2001-02. He compiled a 65-36-7 record at Marian, including a 51-8-3 league record and a conference-record 27-game winning streak. His 2001-02 Sabres squad went 16-0-0 to become the first MCHA team to ever claim an unbeaten league season. He earned MCHA Coach of the Year honors in 2001-02 and 2003-04, and was a finalist for the American Hockey Coaches Association's Division III National Coach of the Year award three times. Brown earned his bachelor's degree in journalism with an economics minor from Wisconsin-River Falls in 1994, and earned a master's degree in organizational leadership and quality from Marian. Men's Hockey Head Coach -- Chris Brown To return to Augsburg Men's Hockey, click here To return to Augsburg Athletics, click here Augsburg College, a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. This is the official web site for Augsburg
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