During his four years on the Lycoming College men's tennis team, Bobby Brown helped lead the men’s tennis team to 24 wins, more than the team had won in the 17 years before he had joined the team in 2008. Now, he is back for his second year as a volunteer assistant coach with the tennis program in 2012-13.
For his efforts in one of the greatest transformations of an athletic program in school history along with an equally stellar classroom record, Brown earned Second Team Capital One/Academic All-American honors in 2011.
A three-time First Team All-Commonwealth Conference selection, Brown is one of the most successful players in school history. He earned his first all-conference honor as a sophomore and added another as a junior after helping lead the Warriors to the team’s first conference title in school history.
As a senior, Brown, after playing at the No. 1 position for the last three years, moved comfortably into the No. 2 position, where he finished a perfect 6-0 in Commonwealth Conference play. He posted a career-best 8-4 record in singles play and surpassed 50 career combined wins (singles and doubles) during the season, along with winning the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week award once. In doubles play, he teamed with his brother, David, to form one of the top duos in the conference, as the pair advanced to the finals at the MAC Individual Championships in the second flight and they combined to post an 11-4 overall record and a 6-0 conference slate. He also earned the conference’s MAC Scholar Athlete award.
Off the court, the astronomy and physics major is a three-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll and he earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Scholar-Athlete status twice. Along the way, he picked up the M.B. Rich Endowed Prize, the Fundamentals of Physics Award and the Principles of Astronomy Award from Lycoming in 2008. He was inducted into three honor societies: Phi Kappa Phi, for outstanding academic achievement; Sigma Pi Sigma, for physics; and Kappa Mu Epsilon, for mathematics. He also earned the Mathematical Science Award in 2011.
Brown earned his bachelor of science degree in astronomy and physics from Lycoming in 2012.
