New Jersey City University Athletics

JERSEY CITY, NJ…CHARLES A. BROWN, the oldest son of New Jersey City University men’s basketball coach Charles Brown, and himself a former collegiate basketball star at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has been named as an assistant coach at NJCU.

 

“For me it’s extremely exciting to have my son on the staff,” Charles Brown said. “We were hoping to add him that the last two years but were unable to do it because of his job.”

 

“He’s going to bring a positive attitude to the program, and as an assistant coach, has a positive relationship with the players. He has excellent knowledge of the game being a former player and from following the game. And because we talk so much he knows what I’m looking for from the players and from my program.”

 

Brown joins current assistant coaches ARTIECE BROWN (11th season), DAVID FLUELLEN (Seventh season) and DARREN WATKINS (New Jersey City, ’93, Sixth season) on the staff. It is Brown’s first collegiate coaching position.

 

One of three members of the Brown family to notch 1000 points in their collegiate careers, he achieved the feat in ironic fashion, reaching the milestone against his fathers Jersey City State team in the championship game of the ECAC Metro New York/New Jersey tournament in Jersey City on March 12, 1988, a game won by NJIT, 103-93.

 

His younger brother, Marc, is the all-time leader in scoring and assists in Siena College history, and one of only three players at the time of his graduation, to score over 2,000 career points and accumulate at least 750 assists in Division I history. Marc Brown currently plays professionally in the French pro league, after a long career in Brazil.

 

Charles A. Brown scored 1004 points in a three-year career for coach Jim Catalano, that spanned 1985-88, and currently ranks 19^th on the Highlanders career scoring list. His career coincided with three other 1000-point scorers at NJIT, and he probably would have scored considerably more had his teams not possessed so many other big scorers. He was a two-time selection to the All-Independent Athletic Conference team as a sophomore and junior.

 

NJIT went a combined 61-21 (.744) in his 82-game career. The Highlanders qualified for the Division III ECAC Tournament each year he played, winning the title in 1988.

 

Brown left NJIT after his junior year to pursue a successful 12-year career in the United States Navy (1988-99), retiring with a First Class E6 rank.

 

After fulfilling his career with the Navy, he completed his studies in 1999 at New School University, earning a B.S. in Human Resource Management. Brown has been a manufacturing supervisor for Pfizer, Inc., for the past six years.

 

A June 1985 graduate of Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ, he was a Third-Team All-Orange District pick in his prep career, playing for coaches Tom Riley and Lee Thomas.

 

Born June 3, 1967 in Teaneck, NJ, he currently resides in Fords, NJ with his wife, Tracy and their two daughters. His step-daughter, Kristin Wynn, is currently a sophomore on the NJCU cross-country and track and field programs. He also has a 12-year-old daughter, Maya. Brown lists his father as his hero.