Former Tennessee Volunteer standout Jasmine Brown has joined the University of Louisville volleyball coaching staff as a volunteer, according to UofL head coach Dani Busboom Kelly.
Brown comes to Louisville from the Knoxville area, where she has extensive club experience as well as experience coaching on the high school level. The native of Chattanooga played for Coach Busboom Kelly for two of her four years with the Volunteers.
“When Jasmine decided she wanted to go into coaching, it was a no brainer to make her part of our staff,” said Busboom Kelly.
“She has an amazing work ethic and has proven herself to be a great teacher of the game at the club level. I believe Jasmine has the potential to be one of the top up and coming coaches very early in her career.”
Following her graduation from Tennessee in 2013 with a bachelor’s of science in social work, she served as the interim director at The Refuge of the Volunteer Ministry Center. She then worked for the Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office from 2014-17 as an assistant to the district’s public defender. She volunteered with Community Law Office youth program for neighborhood and inner-city youth for three years as well. She kept her hand in volleyball after graduation, coaching with the K2 Volleyball Club 13s, 14s and 14-elite as a head coach. She served as assistant coach at Christian Academy of Knoxville where she helped lead the team to a District and Region championship and placed third in the state tournament. She also spent two seasons at Berean Christian School where she was a part of were District champions and Region runner-ups team.
While at Tennessee, she started out as a walk-on and earned a scholarship as UT’s go-to serving specialist and defensive specialist. Outstanding in the classroom, Brown earned All-SEC Academic Honor Roll status three years and was on the 2009 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll. As a senior, she set career highs of 14 digs at LSU and had 3 aces against Alabama and helped the Vols win the 2011 SEC Championship. She was a Chancellor's Scholar Athlete and McWhorter post-graduate scholarship female finalist. She earned a master’s of science in social work from Tennessee in 2014.
She was a multi-sport star at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, where she lettered all four years in volleyball, track and basketball and was the captain of the volleyball and basketball teams as a senior. She played at the setter and outside hitter positions for the Bruisers volleyball team and led the squad to back-to-back Division II-AA state titles during her junior and senior seasons, earning all-tournament team honors in 2007 and most valuable player accolades in 2008. During her senior season, Brown recorded 1,186 assists, 617 digs, 418 kills, 111 blocks and 108 service aces en route to highest honorable mention designation on PrepVolleyball.com’s high school All-America team. She was also a standout performer for the GPS track team and as a senior, she claimed the Division II triple-jump title, finishing second in the state in the pentathlon and earned third and fifth-place finishes in the 100m and 300m hurdle events. She also performed well in the classroom as a member of the National Honor Society and the Headmaster’s List (4.0 GPA).