Pasadena City College named Dr. Timi Brown as the new Dean of Kinesiology, Health and Athletics on April 1, 2024.

She oversees a division that includes 16 intercollegiate athletic teams, a large faculty/coaching full-time staff, full-time classified personnel and numerous part-timers. A veteran of 38 years in college athletics as a NCAA Division I basketball player at the University of Arizona, a head coach, administrator and consultant, Dr. Brown comes to PCC after serving as the Director of Kinesiology and Athletics at Chaffey College for almost six years.

At Chaffey, Dr. Brown managed 14 intercollegiate sports, served as the Vice President, Gender Equity and Women’s Basketball rep for the Inland Empire Athletic Conference, while also serving on the 3C2A Management Council as the Women’s Basketball rep. She is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Director of Athletics and was one of eight AD’s throughout the country to receive the CBIZ Borden Perlman Sports Convention Grant.

Under Brown’s leadership, Panther Athletics earned multiple conference championships throughout her tenure. Chaffey’s women’s soccer team earned SoCal’s #1 seed, national rankings and won the prestigious Pinnacle Award in 2021, the only California community college to ever win the award. Panther Football recorded a 22-0 record over a two-year span and an 11-0 season record in 2023. In 2019 and 2023, Panther Football won the SCFA American Bowl Championship. The Panther Athletics program has earned the IEAC Commissioner’s Cup for outstanding athletic achievement for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years.

Dr. Brown helped raise more than $150 thousand from the schools annual Foundation/Athletics Golf Tournament to support facility improvements and branding athletic spaces. Dr. Brown was helping to oversee the renovation of the Panther Aquatics Center, while making improvements to the softball field, weight room, Sport Center locker rooms, soccer field and the Kinesiology building. Brown brought national organizations, such as One Love, Accelerate, Spry, Arbiter Pay, Home Town Ticketing and E-Team Sponsor to Panther Athletics in ultimately increasing the student-athlete experience, efficiency of internal processes and branding for the department.

One of her proudest accomplishments was the development and implementation of Panther Athletics Welcome (PAW); a student-athlete and parent/guardian orientation for the new school year. Additionally, in 2024 Brown won the Kinesiology Administrator of the Year Award handed out by the California Community College Physical Education, Kinesiology and Dance state organization for her hard work, commitment and leadership to in the discipline. CCCPEKD Administrator of the Year

Recruited as a three-sport athlete out of Carson High School (Carson City, Nevada) Brown attended the University of Arizona on a full-ride basketball scholarship. She had a stellar career at the UA, where she posted records for most points in a single game (38 pts) and graduated as the Wildcats all-time leading scorer in 1991, and graduated with her Bachelor’s degree.

In June 2023, Brown was inducted into the Carson High School Basketball Hall of Fame, and in June of 2024 was inducted into the Nevada Interscholastic Athletic Association Hall of Fame. NIAA Hall of Fame

Upon earning a Master’s Degree in Athletic Administration, from the University of Northern Colorado, Brown began her coaching career at San Pasqual High School in San Diego, California directing two CIF Southern Section Titles. An assistant coach at several community colleges, she went on to become Head Coach/Faculty at Monterey Peninsula College, then Odessa College (Texas) in 2001.

At Odessa, she coached a 25-5 team in 2003-4, winning the Western Junior Athletic Conference championship and Coach of the Year honors. In 2004, she moved to Mesa State College (Colorado) for five years, then Glendale College (Arizona). Brown coached numerous all-conference players, multiple all-Americans and many scholar athletes throughout her tenure.

In 2010-2014 Brown earned her doctorate in Higher Education Leadership, completing a dissertation on student-athlete academic support services.

She earned a doctorate in educational leadership from Argosy University in 2014.