ShaDon Brown is in his fifth season on the coaching staff, joining the Terriers in 2011. After working his first four years with the cornerbacks, this season he will coach the safeties. He also was named the recruiting coordinator in the spring of 2015. His recruiting area includes east Georgia, including Gwinnett County, western Kentucky, and northeast Florida from Jacksonville to north metro Orlando.
Last season Brion Anderson had three interceptions to lead the team and tie for third in the Southern Conference. During the 2013 season, second-year freshman cornerback Chris Armfield led the team in interceptions with three, which tied for the most in the Southern Conference.
In 2012, senior cornerback Blake Wylie earned Second Team All-Southern Conference honors as he led the team and was fourth in the league with three interceptions. Wofford led the SoCon in scoring defense and total defense, while the passing defense was fifth in the conference. The scoring defense was seventh overall nationally.
In his first season at Wofford, the total defense was ranked second in the Southern Conference. Blake Wylie had three interceptions to lead the team and was tenth in the SoCon standings.
Brown spent three seasons as head coach at Rowan County High School in Kentucky. 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 at 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. Also on that team was Wofford defensive coordinator Nathan Fuqua. Brown has a B.S. in Physical Education from Campbellsville University in Kentucky, where he 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.
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