| Phone: | (657) 278-4902 |
| Email: | demianbrown@fullerton.edu |
| College: | Cal State Fullerton '97 |
| Position: | Head Coach (6th Season) |
What can Brown do for you? Plenty.
Since returning to his alma mater as an assistant coach with the Cal State Fullerton women’s program in 2004, Demian Brown has been an integral part of developing the Titans into an emerging national contender over the last eight years.
In that span, the former Fullerton letter winner and 2007 Big West Conference Coach of the Year has helped the Titans to a 82-68-14 (.543) overall record with a trio of Big West regular season titles, three conference tournament crowns and back-to-back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament - including a trip to the third round in 2005 and a second round berth in 2006.
Now in his sixth season at the helm of the Fullerton program, Brown looks to continue the tradition of success that fans of Titans’ soccer have come to expect.
Hired as only the third head coach in the history of the program in February of 2007, Brown’s Division I head coaching debut was nothing short of stellar, becoming the first-ever, first-year, first-time head coach in the history of the conference to lead his team to both the league’s regular season and tournament titles and only the second first-year head coach to win a regular season title, joining former Titans’ coach Ali Khosroshahin in 2001.
Fullerton compiled a 12-8-2 overall mark in Brown’s rookie campaign and a 6-2 mark in Big West play for first place (the third time in Brown’s four years that the Titans have stood atop the conference), earning the top seed for the league tournament at Titan Stadium. Under Brown’s direction, Fullerton clinched its third consecutive Big West Tournament title and subsequent NCAA berth with a penalty kick victory over Cal Poly in the championship.
For his efforts, he was named the Big West Coach of the Year.
The 2008 season was a little bit of a struggle as the Titans, faced with the loss of their top three scorers and returning only 13 of the team’s 31 goals from the previous year, limped to a 7-11-1 overall mark and a 2-6 finish in conference play. Eight of their 11 losses came by a single goal with five of those defeats coming in the last 10 minutes.
Faced with one of the toughest schedules in school history, Fullerton did pull-off victories over nationally-ranked squads California and UC Santa Barbara and opened the year with four straight wins for only the second time in the history of the program and the first since 1995.
His third season at the helm was nothing short of heartbreaking as the Titans finished 6-8-5 overall, but ended 4-3-1 in the Big West Conference for a fourth-place tie, missing out on a league tournament berth on tiebreakers. Fullerton, which suffered five one-goal losses and battled to a pair of scoreless draws during the year, did end its campaign on a high note, going unbeaten (3-0-1) over their final four matches that included conference wins over UC Davis, Long Beach State, and Pacific. The five draws were a school record while the six overtime matches were just one shy of the school mark set in 1993 and 2007 (7).
The 2011 campaign saw Fullerton finish just 6-13 overall, but was once again in the hunt for a postseason tournament berth entering the final weekend of the regular season. The Titans, who finished 3-5 in league play, faced a somewhat difficult slate with four opponents ranked among the nation’s top 25 (and another receiving votes at the time of the match). Senior Christina Murillo (second team) and junior Casey Volk (honorable mention) were among the postseason award winners from the Big West while the offense, which finished with just 13 goals and 37 points in 2009, underwent a dramatic turnaround, nearly doubling its output to the tune of 23 goals and 63 points.
In 2012, Brown and the Titans began to turn things around, posting the school’s first winning record in four years at 9-8-3 while finishing just outside the race for the Big West Tournament with a 3-4-1 mark. A battle-tested Fullerton squad tied an NCAA record with 11 overtime matches, going 4-4-3 in those contests, and was one of three Big West schools to finish in the top 75 in the final NCAA RPI, all the while helping defender Caitlin Mellano and forward Ann Marie Tangorra to All-Big West Conference Second-Team honors. In addition, redshirt junior Stacey Fox was named to the NSCAA All-West Region Third Team -- the first Titan since Jenae Gibbens in 2008 to earn such an honor.
While at Fullerton, Brown has tutored some of the Big West Conference’s best defensive players as the Titans have had three Big West Defensive Players of the Year in All-American Marlene Sandoval (2005), Erica Janke (2006), and Jenae Gibbens (2007). In addition, 13 different players have earned 20 first-team all-conference honors with 17 more named to the All-Big West second and honorable mention teams.
Since joining the Titans, Brown has had a tremendous impact on the defensive side of the ball, helping coach the Titans’ defense to a pair of record-setting seasons. Under his direction in 2004, Fullerton set single-season records for shutouts (8), fewest shots allowed (183) and fewest goals allowed (18). Brown and the Titans improved on that effort in 2005, setting new marks for fewest goals allowed (15), fewest shots allowed (161) and shutouts (12) while also tying the record for consecutive shutouts in a single season with four.
Prior to his collegiate coaching debut, Brown guided the
Cal-South Women’s Soccer State Select Team to the George F.
Donnelly Cup title in January of 2006, posting a perfect 4-0 record
at regionals and outscoring teams from Massachusetts, Illinois and
Tennessee by a combined 8-0 total to win the crown.
During the summer of 2011, Brown also assumed the reins of the Los
Angeles Strikers of the United Soccer League’s W-League four
matches into the franchise’s inaugural season and recently
completed his first full season at the helm of the club in
2012.
Brown came to Cal State Fullerton after spending five years as an assistant coach for the men’s program at UC Irvine, helping lead the Anteaters to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament in 2000 and coaching the 2001 Big West Conference Defensive Player of the Year (Saul Wolf).
His coaching experience also includes working with numerous club
programs, including the Slammers FC out of Newport Beach, CA, where
he served as head coach for seven years, the Orange Junior Soccer
Club in Orange, CA, and, most recently, the Fullerton Rangers.
Brown also was the boys head coach at Canyon High School in
Anaheim, leading that school into the CIF quarterfinals in
2000.
A 1997 graduate of Cal State Fullerton with a degree in
communications, Brown was a four-year letter winner for former Head
Coach Al Mistri as a defender for the Titans from 1992-94 and 1996,
helping Fullerton to the semifinals of the 1993 College Cup.
He was selected to the 1993 NCAA All-Tournament Team and was a two-time All-MPSF selection, finishing his career with four goals and three assists. Brown also competed in the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival in St. Louis.
He currently resides in Fullerton with his wife, Gina, sons, Mathias and Xavier, and newborn daughter, Dalia.
