Coach Brown is set to begin her fourth full season at the helm of the men's and women's tennis programs. In 2024-25, Brown led both teams to back-to-back playoff appearances. The women's team repeated as MAC Commonwealth champions while qualifying for the NCAA tournament in two consecutive seasons. Combining the two teams, coach Brown led nine players to all-conference honors highlighted by Alex Pancu earning her fourth Commonwealth Player of the Year honor while Allison Horick was named Commonwealth Rookie of the Year.
In 2024-25 the women's tennis team completed a perfect regular season going 15-0. In the regular season the Lions outscored their opponents 94-9 overall and 33-1 in MAC Commonwealth play. Entering the 2025-26 season, the Lions are riding a 24 regular season match win streak.
The 2023-24 men's and women's tennis seasons were one for the history books. Coach Brown led the women's tennis team to the first MAC Commonwealth title in school history while also qualifying and playing in the first NCAA D3 Championship Tournament in school history. The men's team made a return trip to the postseason.
Coach Brown was named the MAC Coach of the year for leading the team to greater heights. Brown oversaw five student-athletes on the women's side be named to the all-conference teams. Alex Pancu was named to the first team while being named MAC Player of the Year for her third consecutive season. Michelle Timothy and Valeria Sanchez earned second team honors while Elicia Aponte and Alaina Smith were named honorable-mentions.
On the men's side, Coach Brown led Adam Good to all-mac second team honors, while Dylan Huha and Gerardo Sanchez were named honorable mentions.
Coach Brown enters her third season at helm of the Albright men's and women's tennis program. Brown has amassed 30 team wins combined between the men's and women's teams and a plethora of individual wins along the way. Brown has the Albright tennis program trending in the right direction having coached back to back MAC Commonwealth rookie of the year & back to back MAC Commonwealth player of the year.
Miranda Brown was hired as the head coach of the Albright Men's and Women's tennis programs in January of 2021. Brown comes to Albright after spending two seasons as head coach of the Minnesota Morris men's and women's tennis programs. Brown was also named Albright's Compliance Coordinator in October of 2022.
In her first season at Minnesota Morris, she helped lead the women's tennis team to a berth in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Tournament for the first time since the 2014 season. Under Coach Brown, the women's tennis team went 6-7 overall and 4-3 in conference play in 2018-19. Brown saw two student-athletes be named First Team All-UMAC as well. The men's team finished 5-8 in 2018-19 which was a two-win increase from the season before. The shortened 2020 season ended with the women's team posting a 3-1 record, and the men's team posting a 1-1 record.
Brown played tennis for four years at Columbia College, and helped lead the team to three-straight appearances in the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) Tournament. Prior to arriving at Minnesota Morris, she served as head varsity boys' and girls' tennis coach at North Central High School in Kershaw, South Carolina for the 2017-18 school year. In her first year coaching the program, she took the North Central boys' varsity tennis team to the state playoffs, something that had not been done in several seasons.
In addition to her high school coaching experience, Brown has worked with the City of Camden's Tennis Center (South Carolina) - a public facility featuring 16 lighted tennis courts and hosting events like the junior team tennis state championship.
Brown also served as the head tennis instructor at Camp Runoia (Maine) where she tripled the size of their youth tennis program, and a member of the Arthur Ashe Kids Day team in New York City, where she instructed on racket handling, agility, and footwork in a fast-paced environment that engages over 1,000 children with the sport of tennis in a day.
Brown graduated from Columbia College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in behavioral science and psychology in April of 2017. She also recently completed a Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in Public Management from Arkansas State University in August of 2020. Brown is a certified Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) instructor.
