Regis University Athletics

Kelly Brown was named the head coach of the women's soccer team in the summer of 2020.

In her first season as the head coach in 2020, Brown led her team to a 4-2-1 overall record in the COVID-19 shortened spring 2021 season. Her team posted a 2-1 record in conference play, earning the #2 seed and the right to host the first-round game of the RMAC Tournament against #3 seeded CSU Pueblo. Two first half goals from the ThunderWolves downed the tournament hopes for the Rangers as they were unable to advance in the tournament.

Most recently, Brown served as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado, Boulder. While there for three years, Brown was the Coordinator of Performance Analysis and Director of Camps. Previous to that, she was the Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at Colorado State University. She holds an Advanced National Coaching Diploma from the NSCAA (2012) after receiving her National Coaching Diploma from the NSCAA in 2011. 

Brown is a former Regis soccer player, having played for longtime head coach J.B. Belzer in 2006-07 where she was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Freshman of the Year. She earned All-RMAC First Team, and All-Region honors as she led the team in points, assists, and game-winning goals during her freshman season. Three years later, Brown returned to Regis, this time as an Assistant Coach under the tutlege of J.B. Belzer. She helped the team go 44-17-4 in three seasons, seizing one RMAC Tournament Championship, and two regular season titles. The team made three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Women's Soccer Tournament appearances, advancing to the second round twice. 

"We had a very strong candidate pool for our women's soccer head coach position. As we went through the process it became apparent that Coach Brown's coaching experience in intercollegiate (Division I and II) and club soccer, Olympic Development Program experience in the Rocky Mountain Region, and her knowledge of the Rangers would enhance the programs storied success. I am excited to bring one of our own on board to continue the success of Regis Women's Soccer", said David Spafford, Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics.

Brown becomes only the third head women's soccer coach in the 32-year history of the women's soccer program at Regis. With her extensive coaching background, Brown expects to continue and enhance the long tradition of excellence, on and off the field, that the women's soccer program has established at RU. 

At CU, She helped the Buffs to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2017 and 2019. CU finished 12-8-2 overall and 3-6-2 in the Pac-12 in 2019. The Buffs hosted Northern Colorado in the first round, advancing with a 6-0 win over the Bears. Colorado moved on to North Carolina in the second round, falling 1-0 in Chapel Hill.
 
CU recorded a program record 16-game unbeaten streak to open the 2018 season. Colorado started the season 13-0-3, rising to as high as No. 15 in the nation. The Buffs set program records in goals (47), assists (52) and total points (146) in 2018. 
 
CU finished the 2017 season fifth in the Pac-12 in goals per game (1.41) and had the third-best defense, posting a school-record 0.61 GAA, which ranked 19th nationally. The team’s shutout percentage of .636 was the second best in the conference and 11th in the nation. CU opened the season with a school-record six consecutive shutouts and the team finished Pac-12 play with five more shutouts to end the regular season, going 4-0-1 during that stretch to propel the team into the postseason.
 
Brown joined CU in the spring of 2017 after four seasons at Colorado State as an assistant coach. She worked at CSU under former Buffs head coach Bill Hempen, where they served their roles since the inception of the soccer program in 2013. At CSU, Brown worked as the recruiting coordinator as well as with the design and implementation of team practices, individual, small group, functional and team tactical and technical instruction, designed scouting reports, and built tactical game plans with personnel. She was also in charge of eligibility, compliance, team travel, community service engagements, fundraising, equipment, camp director and team academic progress. The Rams received the NSCAA Team Academic Award 2014, 2015 and 2016.
 
Prior to her time at Colorado State, Brown was an assistant coach for three seasons at Regis University, an NCAA Division II school in Denver. She helped the Rangers to two Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships, one Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament Championship, and NCAA Tournament appearances 2010, 2011 and 2012. She was in charge of individual technical and group skill development, recruiting, fundraising, monitoring student-athlete academic progress, as well as designed and led a concentrated two-year captain and leadership development study and established a comprehensive off-season strength and conditioning training program. She also coached three NSCAA All-Americans, three NSCAA Daktronics All-Americans, seven all-region players, nine all-conference players, two defensive players of the year and one freshman of the year.
 
Brown has also spent five years in the Olympic Development State and Regional programs as a head and assistant Colorado State Team and Region IV Coach. She has helped lead the ‘01 Region IV Team to an International Championship and the ‘03 state team to be Region IV finalists. She has been a staff coach for the national training camps, national training centers, regional camps, and sub-regional events.
 
Brown holds her NSCAA National and Advanced National Coaching License. She has spent the past 12 years coaching club soccer for all levels and ages at Real Colorado, Las Vegas Premier, Westminster AFC, Arsenal Colorado and most recently with FC Boulder. Brown has received numerous Coach of the Year Awards, in 2015 with Arsenal Colorado and in 2019 with FC Boulder and was nominated for Colorado State Youth Soccer Competitive Coach of the Year. Along with coaching, Brown has acted as the College Advisory Program Director and a Sport Psychology Performance Educator.
 
She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from UNLV in 2010, where she was a student-athlete for the Rebels. In 2007, she helped UNLV to a Mountain West Conference regular-season championship and she was a three-time Mountain West All-Academic honoree. Brown received a Masters Degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology in 2012 from Regis University. 
 
Formerly Kelly Labor, she married Fields Brown during the summer of 2018 and the couple had their first child, Aiden, in the spring of 2020.