An Eagle for six seasons from 2009-14, Allen Brown will return to the Eastern Washington University football program to become EWU's new cornerbacks coach and defensive passing game coordinator, Eastern head coach Aaron Best has announced.
 
After concluding his playing career at EWU, Brown was a strength and conditioning intern at EWU in 2014 and also assisted with the secondary. Brown then spent the past four seasons from 2015-18 at Cal Poly as coach of the team's cornerbacks.
 
Brown helped the Mustangs to a berth in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs in 2016 as the team went 7-5 overall and 5-3 in Big Sky play. Among the players he coached at Cal Poly was Dominic Frasch who led FCS in passes defended with 19 (16 passes broken up and three interceptions) and earned third team All-America honors from Associated Press.
 
"We are so pumped and excited to get Allen coming full circle to wear the Eagle logo and a whistle," said Eastern head coach Aaron Best. "It is with great pleasure and excitement to introduce Allen's skill set and coaching ability to our staff as a whole and specifically on the defensive side of the ball. Allen is a motivated worker that certainly demonstrates what the standard is here and will continue to advance that standard as the cornerback & defensive passing game coordinator role."
 
Brown redshirted in 2009, then was part of EWU's national championship team in 2010 and NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff semifinal appearances in 2012 and 2013. In his four years on the field as an Eagle, Brown helped EWU compile a 42-13 record overall and 27-5 mark in the Big Sky Conference.
 
The Eagles won three league titles and advanced to the FCS Playoffs in three of the four seasons he lettered at EWU from 2010-13. He then spent the 2014 season as a strength and conditioning intern at EWU, which advanced to the quarterfinals of the playoffs that year.
 
He earned second team All-Big Sky honors in 2012 and honorable mention in 2013. He was also team captain as a senior and recorded 237 total tackles to currently rank 21st in school history. He also intercepted four passes and broke up 15 passes during his 52-game career.
 
He finished with 56 tackles, two interceptions and three passes broken up in 12 games played as a senior in 2013 when EWU finished 12-3 and won the Big Sky title with a perfect 8-0 record. As a junior in 2012, Brown notched 91 tackles and broke up seven passes. Eastern was 11-3 overall, 7-1 in the Big Sky and made the first of two-straight appearances in the semifinals of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs.
 
He had 39 tackles and one interception as a freshman and 51 more tackles and another interception as a sophomore. The 2010 Eagles captured the NCAA Division I title and finished 13-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big Sky, then was 6-5/5-3 in 2011. Brown recorded double-digit tackles in six games, including a career-high 11 against Montana in 2012 and 10 more against Cal Poly in 2011.
 
"Winning a national championship and donning the No. 4 jersey as a player are just two of the notable accomplishments Allen has earned over his time as an Eagle," added Best. "He has a bright future as a coach, and anytime you can bring our own Eagles back to the nest that is a huge victory."
 
A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Brown graduated from Eastern Washington in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He is a 2009 graduate of Foss High School in Tacoma, Wash., where he was a wide receiver and defensive back in football and also competed in basketball and track and field. His high school and EWU teammate Nicholas Edwards is currently wide receivers coach at Cal.