This is Coach Brown’s 13th year at Mott. His first 11 years he worked as the assistant coach. This will be his second year as Head Coach. Shawn played baseball for Mott in 1994-96, earning All-Conference honors in 94. He was also the captain in 94 and lead in innings, strikeouts and wins. He was the last pitcher to throw a no-hitter for Mott against Highland Park in 1994.

Shawn graduated from Davison High School in 1993 where he was an All-conference pitcher and pitched for the team while at Saginaw Valley State University. Later he graduated from Mott with degrees in General Studies, Art, and Marketing and Management. During the off season he also instructs baseball camps at Michigan State University and Davison High School.

Shawn is very thankful to have played and coached with some of the best coaches over the years and has gained much knowledge from them. They include: Tim Rye (currently at Davison High School), John and Ernie Myers (Bear Coaches), Walt Head (SVSU), Dan Shelton (Clio, Mott, SVSU), Dan LaNoue (former Detroit Tiger and Mott Coach), Kevin Visser (Mott) and Roger Foutch (Coach of the Halo-Foutch Team).

Another passion of Shawn’s is hockey. In 1997, he was invited to play for the Saginaw Lumber Kings of the CHL, but opted to continue playing baseball and start his education at SVSU. During the year when Shawn is not coaching, he takes on multiple tasks at the college as a field manager of Kearsley Park, Fitness Center Tech, bus driver, facilities conservator of Mott sports memorabilia and does various PR work for the City of Flint.

In the past year, Shawn became a newlywed and married Lanie in May of 2007.

Coach Sharon was a long time, valuable member of the National championship Bishop Construction team in the AABC Stan Musial division. Tom brings a wealth of baseball knowledge and experience to the Bears coaching staff.

Tom is a graduate of Southwestern High School and a 4-year Ball State University #1starter. He finished at Ball State holding 8 pitching records and was a 2 time 2nd team All Mid-American Conference Team.

Tom has been married 28 years to wife Linda and has 3 sons, Brian, Jason, and Eric. This is Tom's 6th season as assistant coach at Mott.

This is Tim’s second year on the coaching staff. He retired from Genesee High School after a 27 year career as a teacher, counselor and coach. At Genesee, Tim’s baseball career spanned 24 years, including 16 years (1985-2000) as the varsity head coach. During his tenure, Genesee won four district championships and made it twice to the great light as Regional Finalists! He also served as District and Regional Representative of the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association. Tim was selected to coach the 1994 High School All-Star Classic at Tiger Stadium.

Tim managed teams for 20 years in the Flint CBL in both the Stan Musical and Connie Mack Divisions. He also has been an instructor at baseball camps at Davison High School, MSU, U of M, and Olivet for the last 25 years. In addition, Tim is an active player in the Flint Senior Baseball League.

Tim is a graduate of Carman High School (1968) in Flint, has a B.A. from U of M-Flint, and M.A. degree from EMU. Tim is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam (1969-70).

Tim’s family include Colleen, his wife of 38 years, son Eric and daughter-in-law Cari.