Katelyn Brown joined Oklahoma Christian's softball coaching staff in August 2018, serving as the Eagles' pitching coach.
During her first season with the Eagles, OC won a share of the Heartland Conference's regular-season title and the conference tournament and made its first NCAA Division II tournament appearance, knocking off two ranked foes en route to a regional runner-up finish as a No. 8 seed.
Brown, from Oklahoma City, starred at Southmoore High School in Moore – being named as Oklahoma's Gatorade player of the year in 2014 – before signing with Southern Nazarene, OC's metro-area rival that competes in the Great American Conference.
As a senior in 2018, she earned All-GAC first-team honors and was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-Central Region second-team list. The right-handed pitcher went 19-16 with a 2.43 ERA and a league-leading 238 strikeouts for the Crimson Storm, which advanced to the GAC tournament title game. She also hit .283 with four home runs and 29 RBIs.
She was a second-team All-GAC pick as a junior after going 21-16 with a 2.92 ERA and 201 strikeouts and hitting .319 with three home runs and 23 RBIs.
In her four seasons in the circle at SNU, she went 57-59 and struck out 626 batters. Her father, Mickey Brown, played baseball at OC's sister institution, York (Neb.).
Brown earned her master's degree in education from East Central University in August 2019.
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