Providence College Athletics
Providence Names Shaun Brown High Performance Coach
5/27/2025 3:03:00 PM | General
Brown will work with the Friar men’s basketball team.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It was announced today (May 27) that Shaun Brown has been named High Performance Coach - Men's Basketball at Providence College. For Brown, it will mark his second stint working in the Friar Athletic Department as he served as the head strength coach from 1989-92. Brown, who has 33 years of strength and conditioning experience (25 years in college, eight years in the NBA), replaces Chase Campbell, who resigned last month. Brown has trained 20 teams that have advanced to the postseason, which includes three Final Fours, two NBA Playoffs, one NIT Championship and one NCAA Championship.
"We are incredibly excited to add Shaun Brown to our program," Providence College men's basketball Head Coach Kim English said. "His impressive career in college athletics strength and conditioning is well documented. His teams were consistently physically strong and very well-conditioned. Everyone Shaun has worked for raved about his dedication to the craft. I'm excited to watch the relationships he builds with our student-athletes. From Providence in the 90's, to Kentucky, to Virginia, to USC, to Minnesota, to West Virginia, to the NBA, I constantly heard from former players that he worked with who all spoke so highly of the impact Shaun made on their lives."
Most recently, Brown was the strength and conditioning coach for men's basketball at West Virginia University from 2018-24. He went to West Virginia from Minnesota, where he served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Golden Gophers men's basketball team for five years.
Prior to Minnesota, Brown spent three seasons overseeing the strength and conditioning program at USC from 2010-13 and three years at Virginia from 2006-09.
Brown worked nine years in the professional ranks, serving as the head strength coach for the NBA's Toronto Raptors from 2003-06 and six seasons as head strength coach for the Boston Celtics from 1997-2003.
Brown has worked with 22 players who were selected in the NBA Draft, including lottery picks Jamal Mashburn, Ron Mercer and Antoine Walker. He has worked with eight NBA All-Stars, including Kenny Anderson, Chris Bosh, Vince Carter, Jamaal Magloire, Paul Pierce, Jalen Rose, Mashburn and Walker. Brown also has mentored seven former assistant strength coaches who have worked at Power 5 schools or in the NBA.
From 1992-97, Brown was the head strength coach for the men's basketball team at Kentucky. During his time with the Wildcats, Kentucky participated in three Final Fours and won the 1996 NCAA Championship.
Before coming to Providence in 1989, Brown was an assistant strength coach at Rutgers.
Brown earned a bachelor's degree from Canisius in 1987 and a master's degree from Ohio State in 1988. He served as a graduate assistant strength coach at Ohio State and as a strength and conditioning coach at Dublin HS (Ohio) from 1988-89.
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