Feb 26, 2014 08:46 AM EST By Staff Reporter, UniversityHerald Reporter

Trey Brown is named the eighth football coach of Wilkes University. Brown succeeds Frank Sheptock, who stepped down after leading the Colonel program for 18 years, to serve as Berwick's athletic director.

Addy Malatesta, Wilkes director of athletics, said that Brown is credited for mentoring talented student athletes at various prominent colleges in the country. He is well-known for his capability to transform any offense into a high-octane unit.  

Brown, a native of Longmont, Colorado, is very grateful and humbled to have the opportunity of leading a football program. He is impressed with the football program at Wilkes and hopes to improve and reinforce the tradition for a long time into the future.

"I have always aspired to be a head coach and when the position came open at Wilkes I grew excited," Brown said in a statement. "I felt Wilkes University had a lot of the same qualities and beliefs that I have developed in the past 16 years of coaching.

Brown's previous job was at Muhlenberg College, where he served as the quarterbacks coach/special teams coordinator for four seasons. Brown was responsible for coaching quarterbacks, wide receivers and special teams. He led the Mules to a Centennial Conference championship 2010, one NCAA Division III National Playoff berth and two ECAC South Atlantic bids.

Prior Muhlenberg, Brown worked as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Lehigh University for four seasons; spent one year with the tight ends and four with the wide receivers at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as an assistant coach for three seasons at Stanford University.

Brown holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of Colorado 1993 and master's degree in Health and Physical Education and Recreation from Saint Mary's College of California 2003.

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