Reneé Brown

Reneé Brown is one of the most accomplished coaches and leaders to come out of the Las Vegas area. A native of Henderson, Nev., and graduate of Basic High School, she played basketball at UNLV and then became a coach, starting at Cannon Junior High School.

She later went on to serve as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball teams at Kansas, Stanford and San Jose State. During her tenure at Kansas, she helped guide the Jayhawks to an 88-31 record and four trips to the NCAA tournament. As an assistant coach for Stanford under Tara VanDerveer, her teams won the NCAA tournament in 1990 and earned a trip to the Final Four in 1991.

During the 1995-96 season, Brown served as an assistant coach to VanDerveer for the gold medal-winning USA Basketball Women's National Team in Colorado Springs, where she helped with game preparation, player conditioning and scouting. She also served on the USAB Board of Directors, chaired the USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team Selection Committee, among other committee positions.

From there, she joined the WNBA as Director of Player Personnel and later was promoted to Senior Director, as well as Vice President. Brown assumed the role of chief of basketball operations and player relations, serving in that position for 20 years. Brown has been part of the epicenter of the WNBA’s growth and prosperity for more than two decades.

In October of 2024, Brown joined Cerebro Sports as member of its Advisory Board. Cerebro Sports is the home of the world’s largest basketball player stats and predictive insights database.