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Last updated on Thursday, June 14, 2018
(SALEM) - The Washington County School Board voted today that Mike Brown will be the new head varsity basketball coach at Salem High School.
After a six-week search for a new head coach, a committee (including former head coach Hank Weedin) interviewed and selected Brown over the weekend.
A 1974 graduate of Madison and later Kentucky Wesleyan, Brown has been building programs throughout his coaching career - from his first job at Christian Academy of Louisville in 1985, to a 294-113 run over 14 years at Paoli, to a 118-61 eight-year stint at Crawford County.
Along the way, Brown has taken programs like the Lions and used his ground-up approach to build conference and state championship contenders by building from the elementaries up and then reaping the rewards of that foundation.
In 14 years at Paoli, the Rams won nine conference championships, nine sectional titles, seven regional crowns, a semi-state championship and a state runner-up finish. In eight years at Crawford County the Wolfpack went from a 7-14 team to a program that was 19-4 in 2011-12, 18-4 in 2014-15 and the sophomores he coached that season made a run to the Class 2A state finals last year just two years after his departure for South Dearborn.
Brown spent one season at Shawe Memorial in Madison last year and went 5-20, with two wins over Medora, Columbus Christian, South Decatur and Trinity Lutheran.
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