SUNY Cortland Athletics

Tony Seaman won 263 games and three National Coach of the Year honors as a 30-year collegiate men’s lacrosse head coach at Towson University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania and C.W. Post College. He served as general manager of the Denver Outlaws in Major League Lacrosse in the 2011-12 season and is currently a special advisor to Towson’s director of athletics.

Seaman coached at Lynbrook (N.Y.) High School from 1972-81 and compiled a 116-61 record. He earned two Division IV Nassau County Coach of the Year awards. He moved to the college coaching ranks in 1982 and led C.W. Post to a 12-3 mark in its first season as a Division I program. The following year, he moved to Penn and coached the Quakers from 1983-90. Seaman was named NCAA National Coach of the Year in both 1983 and 1984 and led Penn to six NCAA tournament appearances.

From 1991-98, Seaman guided the Johns Hopkins program to eight consecutive NCAA playoffs with four national semifinal showings. He led the Blue Jays to a 13-1 record in 1995. Seaman also coached the United States National Team to a gold medal at the 1994 International Lacrosse Federation World Championships in England. Seaman moved to Towson in 1999 and helped the Tigers earn five NCAA tournament berths. He was named NCAA National Coach of the Year in 2001.

In all, Seaman has coached 73 All-Americans and 87 all-conference honorees and his teams have qualified for the NCAA tournament 19 times. He’s a member of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Seaman graduated from Cortland in 1965 as a history major and physical education minor. He played both varsity lacrosse and soccer from 1962-64 and worked on the campus newspaper and radio station. Seaman is an alumnus of Delaware Valley High School in Callicoon, N.Y.

Seaman served as a member of the NCAA Championship Lacrosse Committee from 2009-12. He was the director of the Baltimore County Annual Youth Lacrosse Clinic from 2001-11. In 1998 he founded the “Lacrosse for Leukemia” collegiate fall tournament that has raised funds for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.