Lindy Brown enters his 25th year as a member of the Duke Communications Office after joining the department in November of 1999. He spent seven years as an assistant sports information director prior to being promoted to associate SID in the summer of 2006. Over the summer of 2015, he was elevated to senior associate SID.
In 2019, Brown received the CoSIDA Achievement Award for the University Division and was honored at the CoSIDA convention in June. In recognition of his long service to the game of women's basketball, Brown was presented with the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Mary Jo Haverbeck Award in 2023 at the NCAA Final Four in Dallas.
Brown joined the Blue Devil family after serving as the sports information director/marketing and promotions coordinator at the University of South Carolina Aiken for three years.
A native of Raleigh, N.C., Brown serves as the primary contact for the women's soccer, women's tennis, women’s golf and wrestling teams. His 2001-02 women’s basketball media guide placed second nationally in the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) publications contest. The contest was for Division I institutions and received 102 entries. His 2006-07 women’s basketball guide also placed fifth, while the 2007-08 guide was sixth and the 2008-09 guide was seventh in the CoSIDA contests.
He has been a part of six NCAA Women’s Golf Championships (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2019), three NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Fours (2002, 2003, 2006), two NCAA Women’s Tennis Final Fours (2003, 2012) and two NCAA Women’s Soccer College Cups (2011, 2015).
A 1996 graduate from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., Brown received a Bachelor of Science degree in sport management and worked in the sports information office during college. Prior to graduating, he performed a marketing and promotions internship for the Western Carolina baseball team.
Brown resides in Raleigh along with his wife, Christine, and their children, Jordan (20) and Olivia (16).