Britt Connell - Women's Water Polo Coach - Brown University Athletics

Britt Connell

Title:
Keck Family Assistant Coach
Email:
brittany_connell@brown.edu
Joined Brown:
First
Alma Mater:
Bucknell University '12

Brittany Connell, a former assistant coach at Cerritos College and student-athlete at Bucknell University, enters her second season on the Brown University water polo staff in 2022-23 as an assistant coach for the women’s team and the operations assistant for the men’s side.

In her first season at Brown, Connell helped both the men's and women's teams to 20-win seasons with the women's program earning a school record 25 victories. On the men's side, the Bears finished third in their league tournament, while the women earned a fourth-place finish.

Connell – who acts as the Bears’ recruiting coordinator for the women’s team – comes to Brown after serving as an assistant coach with the Cerritos women’s program as well as acting as a head and assistant coach at the high school level in California.

Connell coached with the Cerritos program from 2018-21 with a focus on the goalkeepers in addition to practice and game planning.

Alongside her time at Cerritos, Connell acted as an assistant coach for the boys’ and girls’ programs at Pasadena High School in Pasadena, Calif., from 2018-21. She helped the girls’ team earn a playoff berth in 2019-20 – the team’s first postseason appearance since 2013.

Prior to Cerritos and Pasadena, Connell coached at Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif., including serving as Hoover’s head girls’ water polo coach from 2016-18. Connell also acted as an assistant coach with the girls’ program from 2012-16 and as an assistant with the boys’ team from 2012-18.

As a collegiate student-athlete, Connell played for four years at Bucknell University from 2008-12. She started at goalkeeper against Princeton in March 2009 in the first collegiate women’s water polo game ever broadcasted on ESPNU.

A native of Montebello, Calif., Connell began her water polo career with the Commerce Aquatics program, playing with the organization for 12 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Bucknell in 2012 and attained a master’s degree in English from Azusa Pacific University in 2018.