American basketball player, Mike Sweetney, is also known as the assistant coach of the Yeshiva University Men’s basketball team. Sweetney is also the head coach of the girls’ varsity basketball team at the New York’s Ramaz School. He began his career in basketball in high school at Oxon Hill, where he was named Washington Post All Met Basketball Player of the Year. Even at Georgetown University, Sweetney continued the tradition of highly skilled big men, averaging 18.2 points while shooting nearly 55% over his three year collegiate career. Sweetney was known to be dominant over his junior year, which was when he was named Honorable Mention All-America by AP, as well as being a Naismith College Player of the Year finalist and a candidate for John R. Wooden Awards. Sweetney was known to be the only player in the nation to rank in the top 20 in scoring and rebounding. Although he had played in only three seasons, Sweetney is ranked seventh on Georgetown’s career scoring list (1,750), fifth in rebounds (887) and sixth in blocks (180). In the 2003 NBA Draft, Sweetney was selected by the New York Knicks. After two years with 42 regular season’s contests, Sweetney was traded to Chicago Bulls in 2005. He started playing with the Boston Celtics summer league team in 2009 and was then invited to attend training camp later that year in order to try out with the Celtics and attempt to resume an NBA career. Sweetney last played for Urunday Universitario of the Liga Uruguaya de Basketball.