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Lindy Brown – Duke University, Senior Associate Sports Information Director
2019 CoSIDA Achievement Award - University Division recipient

by Johnny Moore, Senior National Associate, Duke Blue Devil IMG Sports Marketing

For Lindy Brown, working in college athletics has always been about the relationships.
 
Relationships from his very beginnings at Western Carolina University working with the university sports information director; to his days at USC Aiken; then to his incredible career at Duke University promoting and working with national championship teams and some of the top coaches and student-athletes in the nation in their respective sports. Those relationships with the coaches and the athletes is what makes his job so special.
 
“Having the opportunity to get to know the coaches and student-athletes and tell their stories and see them succeed is what makes this job so enjoyable,” explained Brown. “Getting to know the athletes, having them drop by the office and visit with you, watching them grow and improve in their sport as well as mature as people and continue to be a part of their lives post-graduation is just amazing.”
 
It’s for his amazing work, commitment and contributions to Duke athletics and to the athletic communications profession that Brown will receive the 2019 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Achievement Award for the university division at the organization’s June convention in Orlando.
 
The Achievement Award recognizes an associate or assistant athletic communications directors (someone who has not served as a director during his/her career) who have made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information and who provide exceptional service and dedication to their institutions or conference office.
 
 
A 1996 graduate from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., Brown received a bachelor of science degree in sport management and worked in the sports information office during college. Prior to graduating, he performed a marketing and promotions internship for the Western Carolina baseball team.
 
“I loved sports growing up and when I arrived at Western Carolina, Steve White and Craig Wells afforded me the opportunity to work within the department, get involved with stat crew and learn what it was like to work in a sports information office,” said Brown.
 
Following graduation from WCU, he moved on to the state of South Carolina and served as the sports information director/marketing and promotions coordinator at the University of South Carolina Aiken for three years.
 
“Then I was persistent enough to get Mike Cragg, (then the Duke SID, now the St. John’s athletic director) to hire me at Duke, where I have really enjoyed being a part of the athletic department and university,” said Brown.
 
That persistency has led to a 20-year career at Duke. He has been a member of the Duke sports information staff since 1999. He spent seven years as an assistant sports information director prior to being promoted to associate SID in the summer of 2006. Over the summer of 2015, Lindy was elevated to senior associate SID.
 
During his career at Duke, Brown has handled women’s basketball, women’s golf, women’s tennis, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s fencing along with men’s and women’s soccer. A native of Raleigh, N.C., Brown currently serves as the primary contact for the women’s basketball and women’s golf teams.
 
Brown has coordinated the promotion for three women’s basketball players for National Player of the Year or National Freshman of the Year honors. He has served as the media coordinator for numerous women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and women’s tennis NCAA tournaments.

He has been a part of five NCAA Champion women’s golf teams and 24 ACC Championship squads, while promoting 11 CoSIDA Academic All-America® honorees, 13 conference champions, 110 All-America selections and four individual national champions.  His student-athletes have gone on to win 22 National Player or Rookie of the Year accolades over the years. 

Duke women’s golf team, considered one of the nation’s best programs, allows Brown to not only promote individual and team national champions but U.S. Women’s Amateur champions as well and the winningest coach in the history of women’s collegiate golf, Dan Brooks.
 
Brooks has captured a record 135 wins in his career at Duke and had Brown by his side for the majority of those victories.
 
“When I first started working at Duke, Coach Brooks did not have an assistant so we worked very closely together,” recalled Brown. “It has been great to watch his development of the players and the growth of the program.”
 
“There is no part of what we need that Lindy doesn’t excel at,” explained Brooks. “He thinks about our presence out there in the world and what will be good for our program. He imagines what would be good for women’s golf and then goes out and makes it happen.”
 
Brown traveled to the NCAA Final Four for women’s basketball in 2002, 2003 and 2006, while his women’s tennis (2003), women’s soccer (2011, 2015) and women’s golf programs (2015, 2016) also advanced to their respective NCAA Final Fours.
 
Brown is currently a member of the CoSIDA Recognition Week committee, is a mentor in CoSIDA, serves on the Media Coordinator/Statistics Advisory Group and previously served on the Publications and Digital Design Contest committee.
 
Several of his publications have ranked among the top 10 nationally in national CoSIDA contests. His 2001-02 women’s basketball media guide placed second nationally in the CoSIDA publications contest. The contest was for Division I institutions and received 102 entries. Brown’s 2006-07 women’s basketball guide also placed fifth, while the 2007-08 guide was sixth and the 2008-09 guide was seventh in the CoSIDA contests. 
 
He resides in Raleigh along with his wife, Christine, and their children, Jordan (15) and Olivia (11).