Cross Country
Women's Cross Country Coaching Staff
HEAD COACH - Markeith Brown
903.233.3767
markeithbrown@letu.edu
Markeith Brown enters his first year as head women's cross
country coach at LeTourneau.
Brown spent his collegiate years at East Central Community
College and Nicholls State University. After college, he became the head freshman boys basketball
coach and assistant boys varsity basketball coach at Central Lafourche High School in Raceland, La.
His duties include strength training, fund-raising and developed all practice plans from
2004-06.
While working at Central Lafourche, he founded MB (Markeith
Brown) Basketball Training from 2005-07. He was the head coach of Nike sponsored Louisiana Select
16-year old team that won two major national tournaments in 2006 (Next Level Ballers in Dallas and
Kingwood Classic in Houston).
After leaving Central Lafourche, Brown became the head boys
basketball coach at Vermillion Catholic High School, which captured the Bi-District Championship
and were Regional Finalists during the 2006-07 season. For the team’s accomplishment, Brown was
named Vermillion Parish Coach of the Year. He also was the head cross country coach and
girls track coach for a year.
But the next stop for Brown wasn’t at the high school level. He
became the head coach of the Lake Jackson Lakers of the Texas Professional League from 2007-08 and
became owner of the Texas City Rangers of the ABA (American Basketball Association) from
2008-09.
Brown is married to wife, Julie and the couple have one
daughter, Jayda.
