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Brett Franklin - Staff Directory
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- Intramural and Club Sports Coordinator
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Brett Franklin joined Brown University Division of Athletics and Recreation as Intramural and Club Sports Coordinator in September 2024. His primary responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of on-campus intramural sports, hiring and training student staff plus lending administrative, logistical and operational support to Brown’s forty five club sports programs.
Prior to arriving on College Hill, Franklin spent thirteen years in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. There he balanced two careers, one in radio broadcasting and the other in public education. In 2020, Franklin was appointed Director of Athletics and Co-Curricular at Lebanon Middle School in Lebanon, New Hampshire, a role he held until 2024. His responsibilities included directing eight school sponsored sports and all activities/clubs for over five hundred students, as well as conducting academic standing reviews for all student-athletes.
From 2011-2024, Franklin served as Sports Director for Great Eastern Radio in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. He hosted a daily live local sports talk radio show and was the play-by-play broadcaster for hundreds of local high school athletic events. During this time, Franklin was also the play-by-play broadcaster for Dartmouth College football, basketball and baseball on radio and on ESPN Plus. In 2021, he was the recipient of the National Sports Media Association’s Sportscaster of the Year award for the state of New Hampshire.
Franklin also held coaching stints in a variety of sports at Canton (MA) High School, Milton Academy and Norton (MA) Youth Baseball. He also worked Maintenance for the Town of Canton, MA Recreation Department where he helped maintain town fields and operated the ice resurfacing machine at Metropolis Ice Rink.
A native of Norton, Massachusetts, Franklin graduated from Curry College in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in communication. When he’s not at an intramural or club sports event, you can find Franklin on the golf course.
