coaches Assistant Coach
Jennifer Brown Year at JMU: First Alma Mater: James Madison ‘07
Former JMU standout Jennifer Brown joined the Dukes’ staff as assistant coach in June 2010. Brown, one of head coach Kenny Brooks’ former players at JMU, returned to her alma mater after spending two years as an assistant coach at Colgate. Brown played for the Dukes from 2006-08 after transferring to JMU from Pittsburgh. In her junior season in 2006-07, JMU compiled a 27-6 record, was runner-up in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament, earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and was ranked as high as 22nd in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and as high as 25th in the USA Today Top 25 poll. As a senior in 2007-08, Brown was a starting forward on the Dukes’
team that put together a 24-10 record, advanced to the round of 16 of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, and received votes during the season in both Top 25 polls. She ranked third on the team in rebounding as a senior tri-captain, averaging 6.7 rebounds per game, and she ranked sixth in blocked shots (1.2) and ninth in rebounding among CAA players. She also averaged 9.2 points per contest in 2007-08. Brown received a number of academic awards that season, including the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award, CAA All-Academic second-team honors and the CAA Commissioners Academic Award. She was also named a Strength and Conditioning All-America by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, received the JMU team’s Courage Award, and was selected to participate in Nike’s So You Want to Be a Coach Program. As a junior Brown received CAA AllAcademic honorable mention and the CAA
Commissioners Academic Award. She was voted the team’s most improved player after averaging 5.0 points and 5.4 rebounds a game. At Pittsburgh Brown was the team’s secondleading rebounder (8.1) and third-leading scorer (9.3) as a sophomore in 2004-05. A Dean’s List student as a JMU undergraduate, Brown earned a bachelor’s degree from JMU in criminal justice in 2007 and received a master’s degree in athletic administration and coaching from JMU in 2008. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native earned all-state, all-city and all-borough honors as a senior at Martin Luther King High School, where she set school records for points (2,386) and rebounds. Brown averaged a conference-leading 33 points and 20 rebounds as a senior in 2003. Her team won the Manhattan Borough championship and placed seventh in the state of New York in 2002.
Director of Operations
Tim Clark Year at JMU: Sixth
Graduate of: James Madison ‘09
Tim Clark was named the Dukes’ director of operations in July 2010, but he had a five-year association with the JMU program prior to his appointment in operations. In 2009-10 Clark was a graduate assistant with the program after serving four seasons as head team manager with the Dukes. As JMU’s graduate assistant in 2009-10, Clark was in charge of film exchange, overseeing the student team manager program, ordering and maintaining equipment inventory
and coordinating and scheduling the practice squad. His work experience with the women’s basketball program as a manager included assisting the coaching staff in executing the day to day operations of the program and extensive experience with film exchange and general office operation. He also completed a full-time full-credit internship as well as a 450plus hour coaching education practicum with the program. Clark also completed a 90-hour undergraduate practicum with JMU’s Office of Sports Media Relations. In addition he has served as assistant camp director, league commissioner, site coordinator and camp counselor with Kenny Brooks
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Summer Basketball Camp and has been on the staff for the Matt Brady Elite Player Summer Basketball Camp, Hampden-Sydney College Basketball Camp and Anthony Grant Basketball Camp at Virginia Commonwealth University. Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from JMU in May 2009. His undergraduate concentration was in sports and recreation management and he completed minors in business administration and coaching education. Clark is a graduate student at JMU majoring in kinesiology with a concentration in sport and recreation leadership.