[3] After retiring from competitions she had a long career as a running coach, and helped prepare the national women's team to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Born Doris Elaine Severtson, she attended Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, Washington.

Her career as a distance runner was off to a shaky start since she was a woman looking to be a competitor in a sport where women and longer events were still somewhat of a taboo.

After she was accepted into Seattle Pacific University she began to run with the men's team but was not able to compete in the 1964 Olympics because of a broken foot.

[5] Brown is perhaps best remembered for her five victories in the International Cross Country Championships (1967–1971), and she also represented the United States at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games.

[7] Brown returned to her alma mater and coached track and cross country at Seattle Pacific University for four decades.

Through the decades, she's made Falcon cross country runners formidable foes in NCAA Division II.