Kip Drown is entering his third season as head
coach at Colorado State University-Pueblo. In his two seasons with
the Pack, Drown has posted a 36-22 record, leading the T-Wolves to
back-to-back RMAC Tournament semifinal appearances.
In 2006-07, CSU-Pueblo went 17-10 overall and
13-5 in conference play as it won its first-ever RMAC West Division
title and garnered the number-two seed in the RMAC Tournament.
In his first season with CSU-Pueblo, he led
CSU-Pueblo to a 19-12 record and its first-ever Rocky Mountain
Athletic Conference Shootout crown.
Drown came to the Pack after positions at Grand
Canyon, Georgia Southwestern State and Southwest Baptist.
At Grand Canyon, Drown turned around the
‘Lopes program, building a team that earned a bid to the NCAA
West Regional Tournament in 2003-04. In four years, he brought the
team from only four wins in the year before he arrived to a 16-12
record in 2003-04, earning CCAA Coach of the Year Honors for his
efforts.
Prior to that, Drown was the head coach at
NAIA-Georgia Southwestern State, going 151-71 in seven years. His
teams earned five trips to the NAIA National Tournament, and were
frequently ranked in the top 25.
The rest of Drown's head coaching resume comes
from a six-year stint at Southwest Baptist University. There, he
again built a floundering program into a proven winner, earning
four entries into the MIAA Conference tournament, the first four
such appearances in school history. His team at Southwest Baptist,
after fighting through the growing pains associated with a jump
from NAIA to NCAA Division II, went on to post a 47-35 record over
his last three years with the program, earning the school's
first-ever weekly national ranking (11th in 2001).
His 19 years as head coach at the collegiate
level, his 304-239 record make Drown the most-experienced and
winningest women's basketball coach in the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference.
Drown earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Southwest
Missouri State University.