During her 20 years of coaching at SCHS, Brown was either a head coach or assistant coach on 41 North Egypt Conference championship teams.

A 1975 graduate of SCHS, Brown began her coaching career in the fall of 1980 as assistant volleyball coach to Pam (McCartney) Raymer. Brown held that position until 1988 when she succeeded Raymer as head coach.

During her 11 seasons as Lady Wildcats volleyball coach, she posted a career record of 224-92, a .709 winning percentage. Her 224 career wins are the most by an SCHS volleyball coach. Ironically it was Raymer, her long-time co-worker, whose record of 141 wins she broke in 1996.

Her teams won nine NEC championships. The first was in 1988. She then won eight straight from 1991 until her last season in 1998. During her final 52 league games, Brown’s teams compiled a 51 -1 record.

Brown’s teams won six regional championships, 1992-94 and 1996-98. Her 1997 team won the school’s first and only sectional championship. Salem advanced to the sectional championship game four times 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998) during her tenure. Her final team in 1998 set a school record for wins in a season when it went 32-3.

Brown coached girls track at SCHS for 20 years from 1981-2000. During that span she won 16 NEC championships, 1981 and 15 straight from 1986 – 2000. Her 1998 team set an NEC record for margin of victory with a 136 point spread over runnerup Olney.

She coached three state medallists. They included Kristi Beeson in the high jump in 1986, the 800 meter medley relay team of Serra Morton, Angie Burroughs, Julie Bierman and Trisha Ward in 1994, and Brittany Bowers in the high jump in 2000.

In addition to volleyball and track. Brown spent nine years as assistant cross country coach to Kirby Phillips. Eight of those seasons came while she was coaching volleyball at the same time.

Morris followed up a good high school career with an even better collegiate and coaching career.

A 1980 graduate of SCHS, Morris participated in both baseball and football in high school. His best sport was baseball where he earned All-North Egypt Conference honors as a junior and led Salem in hitting with a .353 average. He also led Salem in hitting during his senior season.

Morris landed an opportunity to continue his baseball career at Kaskaskia College.

During his two years at Kaskaskia, Morris hit above .300 every season except his fall freshmen campaign where he saw limited duty. As a sophomore he established a school record that still stands for most triples in a season with nine. During his fall sophomore campaign he hit .391 for the Blue Devils and was an All-Southern Illinois Conference selection. Morris was also selected to play in the North/South Illinois All State Game held at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Morris transferred to Southeast Missouri State in 1982 where he continued his baseball career.

As a junior in 1983 Morris hit .324 with a team high 50 runs scored for a squad that went 29-10. The 50 runs scored in a season was a school record. As a senior in 1984 Morris batted .333 and again led Southeast Missouri State in runs scored with 32. His play helped Southeast Missouri State win the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship and earn a berth in the NCAA Midwest Regional.

Morris received Honorable Mention to the All-Missouri Intercollegiate Team in both 1983 and 1984.

After graduation from college, Morris has been in the coaching profession for the past 16 years.

From 1985-93 he served as assistant football coach at Paris, Tennessee High School. He then moved to Milan, Tennessee High School were he again was an assistant football coach in 1994 and 1995.

He took over the head coaching duties at Milan in 1996. Since that time he has compiled 51-13 career record. His 1998 squad went 13-2 and won the Tennessee Class 2A state title. In 1999 Milan went 15-0 and won the Tennessee Class 3A state title.

This summer he will serve as the head coach for the Tennessee All-State All-Stars in a game against Kentucky All-Stars. He served as an assistant coach in that game last year.