Gainesville head baseball coach Chan Brown will be inducted into the NHSBCA Hall of Fame.

Gainesville's Brown to be inducted into NHSBCA Hall of Fame

Chan Brown will be inducted into the National High School Baseball Coaches Association (NHSBCA) Hall of Fame. Brown will be honored at the NHSBCA Convention on Dec. 3-6, 2026 in New Orleans.

The Gainesville coach is entering his second season with the Red Elephants, but he is best known for his time at Parkview where he inherited the program from longtime coach Hugh Buchanan in 2005 and established the Panthers as one of the nation's top prep programs.

A 1991 graduate of Tucker High School, Brown played collegiately at Hillsborough in Tampa, Fla., before returning to Georgia and playing under Mike Hurst at Georgia State.

He returned to Tucker in 1996 as a volunteer baseball and football coach. He was the head baseball and assistant football coach at Elbert County (1998-2001), assistant baseball and football coach at Northwest Whitfield (2002) and assistant baseball and football coach at Parkview (2003-04).

In 26 seasons as a head baseball coach, he boasts a 592-192 record.

He guided the Parkview program to 15 region titles and six state titles (2011, '12, '15, '18, '19, '21). His 2012 team was voted the national champions by Baseball America.

Meanwhile, the 2015 Parkview squad was named national champions by five national media outlets, including Baseball America and USA Today.

In addition, his 2018 state championship squad was named as national champions by Baseball America.

Brown was also named National Coach of the Year in 2015 by USA Today, Max Preps, Perfect Game and Baseball America. The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) named him Southeastern Regional Coach of the Year three times (2011, '12 and '15), and the Baseball Coaches Association named him Regional Coach of the Year in 2015.

He boasts three Georgia Dugout Club Coach of the Year honors and three Gwinnett Dugout Club Coach of the Year awards.

"Coach (Hugh) Buchanan was my mentor at Parkview," Brown told USA Today in 2015. "He was here for 28 years. He and Roy Massey helped groom me into what I am."

Brown has coached in several national events. In 2013, he was head coach of the East squad in the Perfect Game All-American Classic. He also led the Team USA 15U squad to a gold medal in the Pan Am Games in 2013. Brown also guided Team USA 15U to a silver medal in the World Games in Mexico in 2014.