Tiffany Brown Signs Professional Contract

STATESBORO, Ga. – Former Georgia Southern University standout Tiffany Brown (Waxhaw, N.C./Parkwood) signed a professional contract to play basketball in Romania. The All-Southern Conference guard will join Club Sport IV Baschet Arad.

Brown, who finished her career ranked 13th among the Eagle career scoring leaders with 1,154 points, will leave next month. She becomes the 15th player to sign a professional contract since head coach Rusty Cram joined the Georgia Southern coaching staff.

The process started when Brown traveled to an exposure camp.

“I went to New Hampshire in early June to play in an exposure camp. That’s where I met my agent and while there he said he would get me a job,” said Brown. “We were looking at different places. The first place that opened was in Austria but it was playing in a lower league. A professional team in Romania was looking for a point guard. They were originally looking for someone with WNBA experience, but my agent talked to their manager and about a week later I got the call.”

Not only did Brown finish among the Georgia Southern career scoring leaders, she also finished seventh all-time in steals (170) and fifth in 3-point field goals (131). According to Cram, Brown - who earned Second Team All-SoCon honors this past season averaging a team-leading 11.3 points per game while sharing the team lead making 33 ‘3s’- fulfilled a career goal.

“One of Tiffany’s goals coming here was to play at the next level, for her to continue playing is a great accomplishment. Overseas it’s hard for a guard, you have to be someone pretty special to make it. It has to be a feather in Tiffany’s cap to sign a professional contract, they must have really liked her ability,” said Cram. “Being away from home in a strange, foreign land will be different for her. Tiffany is from a small town, so going off to an unknown territory and speaking a different language she will have to adjust to all of those factors in addition to understand playing in that professional league. But this is great for Tiffany and also great for our program.”

Brown said her career highlight came last year when she joined the 1,000-point club. She is looking forward to the new opportunity.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun. I am looking forward to playing with new people and getting to know the members of the organization,” said Brown, who plans on taking two on-line classes during the fall and spring in order to graduate in May. “I’m both excited and nervous being over there for a year.”

Category: Women's Basketball

Published on Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:10