A native of Des Moines, Iowa, where she was a nine-time state champion at Roosevelt High School, Kaiser was a world-class sprinter during her Missouri career and after. She was the U.S. 400-meter dash champion in 1994 and was a member of the U.S. gold-medal winning 4x400- meter relay team at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. She earned a silver medal in the same event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She was also a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1996 in Atlanta. While lettering at MU, Kaiser was a six-time all-American and five-time Big Eight Conference champion in the 400 meters. She was the Big Eight Conference female “Athlete of the Year“ in 1989, and the most valuable athlete of the Big Eight Championships in 1985 and ‘86. She set five individual records at the University of Missouri and ran on eight record-setting relay teams. In 1989, she was the 400-meter indoor national champion with a collegiate record time of 51.92 seconds. After completing her running career, she was named the women’s head track and field and cross country coach at Drake University in 2000. She added the men’s title in 2003, and coached alongside her husband, Brian Brown, there for 16 years. At Drake, she guided 39 individual Missouri Valley Conference champions, 60 NCAA qualifiers and one all-American. Drake athletes set 40 school records during her tenure. In 2016, she and her husband returned to the University of Missouri where he serves as an associate athletic director, and she is associate head coach with the MU track and field program. Their daughter, Elle, played basketball for Mizzou. She was tabbed for the Drake Relays Hall of Fame in 1995. Natasha was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
