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Hit .292 overall with a pair of doubles, a home run and 11 RBIs while playing in 35 games (11 starts at either third base, shortstop or DP) for the Big Orange...Posted four multi-RBI and two multi-hit efforts in 2011...Singled during a pinch hit appearance in UT's 6-1 loss to #22 Oklahoma State (5/21) in NCAA Knoxville Regional action...Doubled in a tally in the fifth inning of a 9-1 (5 inn.) romp over Radford (4/19)...Drew a walk in her lone plate appearance against Ole Miss (4/8)...Recorded an infield single to short in Tennessee's 8-0 (6 inn.) whitewashing of #22 Auburn (4/3)...Posted a career-high 3-for-3 effort with two RBIs as the Big Orange crushed Tennessee State (3/15) in Nashville, 16-2 (6 inn.)...Singled in a tally through the right side of the infield during the 10-1 (5 inn.) win over Southern Utah (2/22)...Started at DP against Boise State (2/18), recording a career-high three RBIs as part of a 2-for-3 performance...Doubled in a pair of tallies in the opening inning of UT's 18-0 (5 inn.) victory against ETSU (2/15)...Made her first at-bat of the season count in a major way, blasting a two-run shot to finish off the scoring in the Lady Vols' 14-0 (5 inn.) romp over Michigan State (2/13).

Brown played in 49 contests during her rookie season at Rocky Top, drawing 21 starts on the infield at either shortstop, second base or third base...Posted a .286 batting average (18-of-63) with 16 runs scored, five doubles and five RBIs...Played in a pair of contests against #3 Arizona (6/6) at the Women's College World Series, singling as a pinch hitter in UT's 8-0 (5 inn.) defeat and drawing a walk in the 5-2 elimination loss to the `Cats...Beat out an infield single during Tennessee's 4-3 loss to #3 Alabama in the SEC Tourney semifinals (5/14)...Went 2-for-3 with a single, double and an RBI in the Big Orange's 6-1, series-clinching triumph over #11 LSU (5/9)...Started a five-run rally in the seventh inning at #4 Alabama with a single up the middle off `Bama ace Kelsi Dunne...Knocked in a tally in each of the the two triumphs over Presbyterian (4/17), posting a double to center during the finale...Registered a hit in the 14-0 (5 inn.) thrashing of Western Carolina (4/8)...Doubled, singled and plated two scores during a 8-0 (5 inn.) victory over South Carolina (4/3)...Delivered a base knock in her only at-bat and scored in the 6-3 victory over Ole Miss (3/27)...Doubled in the fifth inning of a 7-6 (8 inn.) loss to #6 Georgia (3/21)...Was credited with an RBI via a sacrifice fly during UT's 5-4 defeat at Mississippi State (3/9)...Tallied a base hit in the 6-0 triumph over Ohio (3/5) in the Tennessee Classic...Knocked in her first career RBI during the third inning of the title game win over New Mexico State (2/23) in the Troy Cox Classic in Las Cruces, N.M....Posted a 2-for-3 effort with a double and three runs scored in the 11-2 (5 inn.) victory over St. Mary's (2/21)...Tallied single hits in routs over Weber State (2/20) and Bradley (2/20) and scored twice versus Bradley and Cleveland State (2/21)...Picked up her first collegiate hit on a single to left center in the fifth versus eventual national champion #8 UCLA.

A two-sport athlete at Hart H.S. in softball and basketball, Brown ventures to Tennessee as a slap-hitting middle infielder who helped her squad to a pair of Foothill League (Calif.) titles (2006, 2008)...During the '08 campaign, her team posted a 9-1 league mark as part of a 25-5 overall record to tie current Lady Vol Jessica Spigner's Valencia H.S. squad for the crown...Reaped 2009 first-team All-Foothill League and second-team All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) accolades after hitting .393 (44-of-112) with 18 runs scored during her senior softball campaign...Brown was chosen second-team All-Foothill League in 2008 after recording a .458 batting average with 28 runs scored, two home runs and 16 RBIs while going 13-for-13 on stolen bases...Hit .457 as a sophomore with a .500 on-base percentage...As a rookie she was chosen as the softball team's Most Valuable Player and twice was selected as its Best Defensive Player...On the hardwood, she contributed to a co-Foothill League title in women's basketball as a freshman/sophomore...Brown plays summer ball for the 18-U So Cal Choppers, who finished third in 2007 at Gold Nationals in Oklahoma City, Okla....She was also part of the 14-U National Champions with the So Cal Smashers and played previously with the So Cal Krushers...Also played club soccer and served one year as captain with the Santa Clarita United.

Plans to major in kinesiology at Tennessee with hopes of becoming a physician's assistant or a coach after college...Chose to come to UT out of a final group of schools that included defending national champion Washington, Cal State Fullerton and Pacific...Claims to have modeled her game after former U.S. National Team starting shortstop Natasha Watley...Has two brothers, her twin, Trevor, 20, who is currently a junior catcher on the baseball squad at UCLA and Joshua, 18...Melissa Nicole Brown was born November 15, 1991, in Newhall, Calif....Her parents are Douglas and Janet Brown.