Former NCAA Division I player and coach Philip Seymore is the new head coach of the Fredonia State men’s basketball team.

A native of Brooklyn, Seymore coached 12 seasons at Providence College – seven as women’s head coach, five as men’s assistant coach. He also served as a men’s assistant coach for three seasons at Richmond, and for seven seasons at Canisius – his alma mater.

All three seasons at Richmond and five at Canisius were spent on the staff of head coach John Beilein, the current head coach at the University of Michigan. Seymore also coached boys’ basketball at Turner-Carroll High School in Buffalo for four seasons after spending one season as a graduate assistant at Canisius under his college coach, Nick Macarchuk.

Since October 2012, he has served as associate director of athletics and The Wellness Center at the College of New Rochelle, an NCAA Division III school in New Rochelle, N.Y.

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