NEW PALTZ, NY — SUNY New Paltz Director of Athletics, Stuart Robinson, has announced the hiring of Mr. Jamie Seward as its new head women’s basketball coach.
Seward joins the SUNY New Paltz Hawks staff after spending five seasons as the assistant women’s basketball coach to Mary Ellen Burt at Union College in Schenectady, NY. During the five year period, Union compiled an overall record of 98-38. This was the most successful five-year run in the history of the Union Dutchwoman program.
Prior to Union, he spent two years as the head coach of the Northern Lites seventeen and under national AAU team. In 2004, he coached the Open Women’s Basketball team at the 2004 Empire State Games. He founded and directs the Real School of Basketball for boys and girls ages eight to 15 in Amsterdam, New York.
Seward has also been on the staffs for the Union, Siena, and the Fulton-Montgomery Community college basketball camps. He was the head coach of the Amsterdam High freshman girls’ team as well as an assistant for the varsity squad.
In 2005 he was an assistant on the Union women’s lacrosse staff, helping to lead the team to the Liberty League title and the NCAA tournament.
Seward earned a Bachelors of Arts in History degree from Siena College in 2001. While at Union, he completed six credit hours in the MAT program and nine credit hours in the MBA program as a non-matriculated student.
