Staff Directory

Sean Bair

Title:
Assistant Coach/General Manager

Sean Bair enters his first season as an assistant coach and general manager on the Michigan women's basketball staff in 2026-27.

Bair comes to Michigan after spending the last two seasons at Penn State (2024-25, 2025-26). Bair helped develop and implement offensive and defensive systems, including player development, practice planning, game preparation and in-game adjustments. He led the development of their forwards and post players, including All-Big Ten honoree Gracie Merkle, who led the nation in field goal percentage in 2025-26.

Prior to his time in Happy Valley as an assistant coach, he was an assistant coach at Monmouth for three season from 2021-22 to 2023-24. In his first season with the Hawks, he helped the team to a seven-win improvement in conference play and a 12-win improvement overall. The season marked the largest turnaround from one season to the next in program history. The Hawks reached the 20-win mark in his final season in 2023-24, winning 22 games and advancing to the second round of the 2024 WNIT.

He spent the 2020-21 season at Penn State as the Director of Video and Analytics, where he created player development videos, evaluated recruits and generated postgame reports. The team increased its win total by six from the previous season, highlighted by a win over No. 15 Ohio State.

Bair previously worked as a graduate assistant coach with Arkansas men’s basketball. While with the Razorbacks, he worked extensively on recruiting graphics, logistical organization, camp and strategic research, while assisting in several other aspects of the program. He earned a master's degree in Adult and Life Long Learning from Arkansas.

Bair was the head boy's basketball coach at New Oxford (Pa.) High School from 2013-19, earning 2019 GameTimePA Coach of the Year honors. He finished with three-straight winning seasons, including two trips to PIAA 5A postseason in 2017 and 2018 and posting 20-plus wins in 2018 and 2019.

Bair earned his bachelor's degree in history from Dickinson College in 2012.

He and his wife Alex have three daughters - Willa, Ada and Clara.