Sean McCaw

Sean Jamel McCaw (born Sean Allen; July 26, 1973) is an American-Austrian former professional basketball player and coach. His professional playing career spanned from 1995 to 2008 and his coaching career spanned from 2008 to 2016. McCaw's career took him to Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. During his college career in the United States, McCaw was named the 1995 American West Conference Player of the Year.

He currently resides in Germany with his family and works as an educator at an international school.

Playing career

High school McCaw was born in New York City but grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Western High School from 1987 to 1991 but only played basketball his senior season due to academic ineligibility his first three years. In his lone season, McCaw averaged 16.6 points and 11.2 rebounds per game and also set the school single season blocked shots record with 163.

College A month after his senior season ended, McCaw signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the University of Arizona Wildcats without having visited the school. McCaw was placed on indefinite suspension in February by coach Lute Olson for "failure to fulfill the team's academic requirements." His suspension was team-related as he was eligible under both NCAA and Arizona Board of Regents standards.

After one successful season at Dixie, McCaw returned to NCAA Division I competition as a junior in 1993–94, this time for Southern Utah University to play for the Thunderbirds, who were in their final season as an independent. He also recorded 53 blocks, which was a then-school single season record. Southern Utah joined the American West Conference, which was in its first year offering basketball. Before the season, the media projected McCaw as one of the conference's best players. He led the Thunderbirds to win the American West regular season championship with a 6–0 conference record (17–11 overall) as well as the conference tournament championship. Southern Utah was not awarded a bid to the NCAA tournament, however, due to the NCAA rule where there must be six member institutions in a conference to qualify (it only had five). For his effort, McCaw was named to the all-conference first-team and won the first ever American West Conference Player of the Year award. During his three-year NCAA Division I career, McCaw recorded 886 points, 345 rebounds, and 116 blocks.

In 2017, Southern Utah University inducted him into their athletics hall of fame despite having only played for the school for two years.

Coaching career In February 2008, McCaw took over as player-coach of Science City Jena in Jena, Germany. In 2009, he took over as the head coach for Medi Bayreuth's youth team, a position he stayed in for three seasons.