A Chat in the Garden with Monique A. J. Smith

Danielle Brown is in her second year with HD Intelligence, serving as the company’s Director of Women’s Basketball and member of HDI’s Leadership Team. She came to HDI in 2022 after coaching women’s basketball for 10 years. Most recently, she spent the 2020-2022 seasons as an assistant and interim head coach with University of Illinois - Chicago. Prior UIC, she served as an assistant coach for two seasons at Yale University. Previous to her stint at Yale, Danielle spent the 2017-18 season on staff at Rutgers-Newark.

Danielle started her coaching career as head coach at Rahway High School in New Jersey from 2011-17, where she led the Indians to six straight State Tournament appearances, a conference title, and their deepest postseason run since 2001. She also taught Health and Physical Education from 2011-2018 and was awarded the 2016 Educator’s Award.

As a forward at Kean University, she helped the nationally ranked Cougars to four NCAA DIII Tournament appearances and three Elite Eight appearances, accumulating a 106-18 record over the course of her career.

A native of New Brunswick, N.J., Brown graduated cum laude from Kean in 2010 with a degree in health/physical education and earned her master’s degree in educational instructional leadership from the University of Illinois - Chicago in 2022.

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