Brown Named Head Coach of Puerto Rican National Team
TAMPA, Fla., June 3, 2020 – University of South Florida women's soccer associate head coach
Chris Brown was named the head coach of the Puerto Rican women's national team, the Comité Ejecutivo de la Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol announced. Brown, who has been at South Florida since 2007 along with his wife, head coach
Denise Schilte-Brown, joins the team as they prepare for qualifying play for the 2023 FIFA World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Playing collegiate soccer for both UNC Charlotte and American, Brown played professional soccer for 11 years before transitioning to coaching. Overall, he played for the Richmond Kickers and New Orleans Storm of the A-League, the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer and TusCelle of the German Third Division.
Brown earned his first coaching opportunity as an assistant with the University of Tampa men's soccer team in 1997, before arriving at University of Maryland – Baltimore County for a two-year stint in 1998. He then coached as an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth in 2000 and was elevated to co-head coach in 2001. In his time with the Rams, he helped guide the team to two conference titles and two NCAA tournaments.
Since joining USF, Brown has helped the Bulls reach the NCAA tournament seven times, including the program's first appearance in 2010, as well as four consecutive years with a conference championship in The American, starting with a tournament title in 2017 and repeating with a regular-season title in 2018, another tournament crown in 2019 and both the regular-season and tournament title in 2020.
This is not Brown's first stint as head coach with a national program. After a year as the Guyana National Team assistant coach in 2009, Brown was promoted to head coach of the team from 2010 through 2014. At the helm of the program, Brown helped the team to qualify for both the Central American and Caribbean Games and the final round of the 2010 Gold Cup. He was also head coach of the U20 Women's Team from 2012-2013.
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The USF women's soccer team has posted eight consecutive seasons of 10-plus wins and nine in the last 10 years under head coach Denise Schilte-Brown. The Bulls made their first NCAA tournament appearance in 2010 and returned in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. South Florida has won four consecutive conference championships, earning the tournament title in 2017, 2019 and 2020 as well as the regular-season title in 2018 and 2020.
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