Jamie Brown

Jamie Brown enters her seventh year as head coach of the Buffalo State softball program in 2023-24, looking to build upon the team's best season during her tenure. The Bengals finished the 2023 season with 25 victories, the most in a single season since 2009, and advanced to the championship game of the SUNYAC Tournament. Brown also recorded her 350th career victory in a 12-0 win over Fredonia on April 8.

Brown officially became the eighth head coach in the history of Buffalo State softball program on Oct. 1, 2017. In her time at Buffalo State, Brown has coached the SUNYAC Julie Lenhart Player of the Year in Oriana Castello in 2021, as well as 16 All-SUNYAC selections, and five NFCA All-Region members.

Brown picked up her 300th career win during the 2019 season and has led the Bengals to the SUNYAC postseason in two of her first four seasons at the helm. She and her staff were honored as the Sandra Hollander SUNYAC Coaching Staff of the Year in 2021.

Prior to her arrival at Buffalo State, she acquired 18 years of coaching experience at multiple levels. She spent six seasons coaching at Sage, where she also served as the Senior Woman Administrator. Brown led the Gators to a 141-101 overall record, including a regular-season Skyline Conference Championship in 2014 and she was also the Skyline Conference Co-Coach of the Year in 2012.

Prior to her time at Sage, Brown coached at all levels from junior college to NCAA Division I. She was the head coach for three seasons at Division II California State University, Chico, was head coach for four years at East Stroudsburg, and also was head coach for one season with Division III Skidmore. She also had stints as an assistant coach with Butte College, Southern Utah University, Wagner College and at Westminster College. Brown has also worked several years at the UCLA Softball Summer Camp.

Brown was a four-year starting outfielder with the Bengals’ softball team from 1996-99 where she helped the Bengals win a SUNYAC Championship and make a pair of appearances in the NCAA playoffs.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Buffalo State and earned her master’s in general education from the University at Albany.