Associate Director of Strength & Conditioning
George Mason University
Faith Brown, PhD is the Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning at George Mason University and conducts research in collaboration with the Patriot Performance Lab. She directs the strength training, conditioning, and nutrition for women's basketball and women’s volleyball. In the Patriot Performance Lab, she collaborates with affiliate faculty and PhD students to conduct sports performance research. Her research focuses on load monitoring in team sports, and her dissertation was titled “Comprehensive Load Monitoring in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Athletes.”
Dr. Brown also holds a Master of Science from VCU and a Bachelor of Science from Shaw University, where she competed as a sprinter. Faith currently competes in the sport of CrossFit and has peaked with a ranking within the top 4% of women CrossFit athletes worldwide.
Originally from Hampton, Va., Brown is certified as a CSCS, SCCC, and USAW-L1SP.