SPARTANBURG, SC – Wofford College football coach Mike Ayers has announced that ShaDon Brown has joined the coaching staff for the 2011 season. Brown will work on the defensive side of the ball with the cornerbacks.
Brown has spent the last three seasons as head coach at Rowan County High School. In 2010, the team posted a 10-2 record and won the conference championship for the first time since 1982. The team reached the quarterfinals of the state playoffs. He led the Vikings to a 4-7 record in his first season and improved to 7-4 in 2009.
In 2001, Brown started linebacker for the winningest football team in Campbellsville University history. The team won 10 games and finished the season ranked #10 in the NAIA. After graduation, Brown became a graduate assistant outside linebackers coach at the University of the Cumberlands in 2003. He was promoted to a full-time assistant for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, coaching the inside linebackers. While coaching for three years at the University of the Cumberlands, Brown was part of 24 wins and nationally ranked teams, defense, and rush offense in two of the three seasons. In 2005, the Patriot football team climbed to as high as #5 in the nation. In 2006, he returned to his alma mater Campbellsville University as the inside linebackers coach. Brown coached at state football power Boyle County High School in 2007.
Brown is a 1998 graduate of Danville High School in Danville, Kentucky where he was part of the 1994 class 2-A State Championship team. He has a B.S. in Physical Education from Campbellsville University in Kentucky, where he played linebacker and was voted team captain in his senior season in 2002. Brown received his M.S. from the University of the Cumberlands in 2008. His family includes wife, Rhonda, daughter Shaelyn, and sons Braylon and Keenan.
Brown is the second new face on the football coaching staff this season. Freddie Brown III was hired this spring to work with the wide receivers. Wofford will report to camp on August 7 in preparation for the season opener on September 3 at Presbyterian College. Season tickets for 2011 are available by calling 864-597-4090.
