College of Education and Human Development

Student Spotlight: Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown is a standout on George Mason's women's basketball team and an ambitious junior majoring in Sport Management in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism. 

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She’s been ambitious from the tip. Consider Taylor Brown was only 10-and-a-half when she ran her first basketball camp in her hometown of Bowie, Maryland.

“It was the Taylor Brown Basketball Camp,” says Brown, today a 5-foot-7-inch redshirt junior who started all but one game for George Mason last season. “I had them doing layups, ball handling drills, and I even had my own clipboard,” she says. “I even gave each of the kids T-shirts.”

The future is full of ideas for Brown, who plans to open her own sports complex and perhaps revive the basketball camp she called her own. There’s also a possibility of pursuing her interest in videography that ballooned over the summer.

"Taylor's ability to balance her work in the sport management program while excelling on the hardwood is truly amazing," says Craig Esherick, associate professor in the Sport Management program and Taylor Brown's internship supervisor. "She is a tremendous ambassador for Mason and we are lucky to have her in our program."

...Brown hasn't just blossomed as a player at Mason. She also thrives as a student and plans to begin work on a master’s in film studies in fall 2015. Having dabbled in videography in high school, using “an itty-bitty camera,” she says, Brown learned to manage more complex equipment at Mason. In addition to filming events for the school website, she spent last summer as an intern for a company founded by a Mason alum who specializes in videography.

B. J. Koubaroulis, founder of dmvstream.com (a website dedicated to high school sports in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia), admits to being wowed by Brown’s work ethic, which had her filming, editing, and even spending time in front of the camera delivering summer league basketball highlights to the Washington Post.

....“Within two hours of the final whistle, she would have imported the footage, edited it, and sent it in a package to the Post to be published,” Koubaroulis says. “For a college student to do what she did on minimal supervision, I thought was great. Her maturity level and ability to take criticism were beyond what you’d expect from a college student, and it really made her better.’’ 

The article above is excerpted and adapted from "Taylor Brown: Right on Script" published by George Mason Athletics.

 

Guard Taylor Brown is a standout basketball player for George Mason.

 

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About CEHD

George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) includes two schools: the Graduate School of Education, one of the most comprehensive education schools in Virginia, and the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism. CEHD offers a full range of courses, certificates, and degree programs on campus, online, and on site to more than 4,000 students each year. CEHD is fully accredited by NCATE, and all licensure programs are approved by the Virginia Department of Education. George Mason University, located just outside of Washington, DC, is Virginia's largest public research university.

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