A veteran assistant coach at both the junior college and Division I levels, De’Audra Brown enters her third season with the Sacramento State women's basketball program and her second as an Associate Head Coach in 2025-26.
“I’ve known De’Audra for quite a few years and she’s one of the most loyal, hard-working assistant coaches that I’ve ever seen,” Head Coach Aaron Kallhoff said. “Her work ethic is second-to-none and is what made adding her to our staff a huge get for this program.”
Brown joined the Hornet sidelines after spending the 2022-23 campaign at Hawai’i, where she helped the Rainbow Wahine to a Big West Conference Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament berth at No. 3-seeded and eventual national champion LSU. Hawai’i won 18 games and ended the year 13-7 in the Big West, finishing third.
She helped mentor a quartet of All-Big West honorees in Kallin Spiller, Imani Peres and worked directly with guards Lily Wahinekapu and Daejah Phillips.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to join the Sacramento State community,” Brown said. “I am excited to work alongside Coach Kallhoff and continue to build upon the recent success of the program. Let's go Hornet fam!"
Prior to her stay in Honolulu, Brown spent five seasons as an assistant coach at New Mexico State, helping lead the Aggies to back-to-back Western Athletic Conference regular season titles in 2017-19, as well as a WAC Tournament title in 2019. Brown helped guide NMSU to a program record-tying 26 wins in 2018-19, while coaching former WAC Player and Defensive Player of the Year Brooke Salas.
Named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s “30-under-30” coaches list in 2016-17, Brown started her coaching career at Eastern Arizona College from 2013-15 before moving on to spend two seasons as an assistant at Seward County Community College from 2015-17. As a junior college assistant, she helped her teams to three berths in the NJCAA National Championship Tournament in four years and coached four NJCAA All-Americans.
Brown’s teams at Seward County Community College finished a combined 57-11 with a 39-6 record in conference play, winning a share of the league title in 2017 after a runner-up finish the year prior. She coached seven players to all-conference honors and helped three student-athletes go on to play at the Division I level, while helping her charges shine in the classroom, earning NJCAA Academic Team of the Year acclaim with a 3.56 GPA in 2017.
While at Eastern Arizona, Brown helped the Gila Monsters to a national ranking for 12 consecutive weeks, reaching as high as No. 5 in 2014-15. That team finished with 27 wins overall — including 20 conference triumphs — en route to a share of the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference title. In her first season, EAC finished with 23 wins, an ACCAC Region I runner-up finish, and the program’s first trip to the national tournament in 2013-14.
A native of Rocky Mount, N.C., Brown started her collegiate playing career at Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Va., before moving on to play her senior season at Elizabeth City State University, an NCAA Division II program in Elizabeth City, N.C., after Saint Paul’s College disbanded its athletic program.
She was named Saint Paul’s rookie of the year as a freshman and the team MVP as a junior, going to to play in all 27 games for Elizabeth City State University as a senior. She graduated from Elizabeth City State with a degree in business administration in 2012.
