Advisor Seaman — Sports Force Lacrosse Recruiting

Tony Seaman

Executive Advisor for Lacrosse

Career Highlights

3x NCAA Coach of the Year (U Penn 1983 & 1984, Towson 2001)
28-year career as Head Coach at University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, and Towson
19 NCAA Tournament Appearances
Coached 85 NCAA All-Americans
Coached gold-medal winning US National Team in 1994
General Manager of MLL's Denver Outlaws
Guided Outlaws to undefeated season in 2013

Career Bio

Seaman enters his sixth season as general manager of the Denver Outlaws in 2017. He joined the team after spending the previous 28 years coaching at the collegiate level. Also, he has served as a member of the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Committee.

Seaman engineered a team that set 21 team records and 10 MLL records in 2013 on its way to become the first in MLL history and just the fourth team in North American major pro sports to finish a season undefeated. Denver’s 14-0 record set a league mark for most wins in a season.

In his three years as the team’s general manager, the Outlaws have amassed a league-best 34-8 (.810 pct.) record that represents a league mark for most wins in a three-year span and delivered Denver its first MLL Championship.

During his tenure as GM, Denver has outscored opponents 661-489 with that 172 goal differential leading all clubs by more than 100 points. He has assembled rosters featuring 17 MLL All Stars and four year-end MLL award winners.

During his first season as the team’s general manager, the Outlaws set franchise records in wins (11), goals (229), assists (116), ground balls (482) and shooting percentage (.348) with the 229 goals representing a single-season MLL record.

Seaman tutored 85 All-Americans during coaching career at the University of Pennsylvania (1983-91), Johns Hopkins University (1991-99) and Towson University (1999-2011). He registered a 247-153 (.618 pct.) career coaching record at the college level and his teams reached the NCAA Tournament 19 times during his career.

He is the only coach to be named the NCAA National Coach of the Year at two different schools (Penn – 1983, ’84 and Towson – 2001), and is the only coach in NCAA Division I lacrosse history to lead three different schools to the NCAA tournament (Penn – 6 times, Johns Hopkins – 8 times and Towson – 5 times).

In 1994, Seaman coached the United States National Team in the 1994 ILF World Championships in Manchester, England, leading the U.S. to the gold medal.

Seaman began his coaching career at Lynbrook High School (1972-1981), where he earned two Division IV Nassau County Coach of the Year awards and led the team to the South Shore championship in 1978.

Seaman and his wife, Guri have a daughter, Barb, who played lacrosse at Penn and a son, Greg, who played for Princeton University.

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