Jake Brown was hired as an assistant coach at Navy in the spring of 2025 and will start his first season with the team this fall.
Brown arrives in Annapolis after serving two seasons as an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s teams at the University of Chicago.
The men’s team finished in third place at the NCAA (DII)Championship in each of his two seasons and the women’s team placed eighth in 2024 and sixth at the 2025 national championship. The Chicago programs set school records in 29 events, won five NCAA event titles and totaled 33 All-America awards during his two-year stint in the Windy City. Individually, he helped coach Cooper Costello, who won the 2025 NCAA (DIII) Championship in the 100 fly, Garrett Classen, who competed at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and Jesse Ssengonzzi, who represented Uganda at the 2024 Olympics.
The native of Chestertown, Md., graduated from Queen Anne’s County High School in 2016. Brown totaled eight top-10 placings at the state (Md.) championship in his career, including podium finishes in four events and a trio of second-place efforts. He would go on to swim at Washington (Md.) College during the 2017-18 season when he was named team MVP after he placed third in the 50 free and 200 free relay, fifth in the 100 free and seventh in the 200 free at the Centennial Conference Championship. An injury ended his swimming career in the fall of 2018, but he served as a volunteer coach for the program as he completed his degree in history during the 2019-20 season.
Brown spent the 2020-21 and 2022-23 seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater and was a volunteer assistant coach at Kentucky during the 2021-22 campaign. He also has served as coach on the club level for Sho’men Swimming and Eastern Shore Aquatics and as a coach for both the Washington and Chicago masters swimming programs.
