Markeith Brown is beginning his seventh year as the assistant women’s basketball coach and head women’s cross country coach at LeTourneau University.
Brown has been a key contributor to the growth of both programs reaching new heights. In three seasons, he has led the women’s cross country team to its best finish in school history at the ASC Championships with a third-place finish in 2013. Individually, Brown was the head coach for three-time NCAA Regional and 2012 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships participant, Nicole Leman and two-time NCAA Regional participant and all-American Southwest Conference performer, Whitney Judd.
With the women’s basketball program, he was involved in the coaching and recruiting of the women’s basketball team in 2013-14 that was the first team to reach the ASC Tournament. Julencia Curtis, who was a key member of the team, was named the LeTourneau University Female Athlete of the Year in 2013-14 and Leman earned the honor in 2012-13.
Under Brown, the YellowJackets have also been successful in the classroom. Over the course of the last five years, LeTourneau has had 23 women’s cross country and 15 women’s basketball selections for the ASC Academic All-Conference Award. In 2012, Nicole Leman was selected as the ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete for cross country and the institution’s ASC Scholar-Athlete Medal of Honor recipient.
Prior to his arrival at LeTourneau, Brown served as the owner of the Texas City Rangers of the American Basketball Association (2008-09) and the head coach of the Lake Jackson Lakers of the Texas Professional League (2007-08). He served as the head boys basketball coach at Vermillion Catholic High School (Abbeville, La.) in 2006-07, where they were bi-district champion and regional finalist. Brown was recognized as the Vermillion Parish Coach of the Year; in addition he served as the head cross country and head girls track and field coach.
He founded MB Basketball Training from 2005-07 while serving as the head freshman boys basketball coach and assistant boys varsity Basketball Coach at Central Lafourche High School in Raceland, La. Brown was also the head coach of Nike-sponsored Louisiana Select, a 16-year old team that won two major national tournaments in 2006 (Next Level Ballers in Dallas and Kingwood Classic in Houston).
Brown played on the collegiate level at East Central Community College and Nicholls State University. He graduated from Nicholls State with his bachelor's degree in General Studies in 2004.
He and his wife, Julie, have three children, son Mayson and daughters, Jayda and Mia reside in Longview.
