Joining the Missouri men’s basketball staff with more than 10 years of strength and conditioning experience, Sean Conaty is now in his fourth season at MU as the program’s Director of Athletic Performance.
In his three seasons with the Tigers, Conaty has worked with a program that has earned two bids to the NCAA Tournament with a total of five players signing with NBA franchises following their graduation, including first-round draft pick Kobe Brown in 2023.
During his first season with the program, the Tigers earned their most victories in 11 years – capped by their first NCAA Tournament win in 13 seasons – while also advancing to the SEC Tournament semifinals for the first time since joining the league in 2012. Most recently, Mizzou posted three top-five wins during the 2024-25 campaign for the first time in 36 years.
Conaty came to Columbia after spending the 2021-22 season as the head men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach at Oregon State. Prior to his time with the Beavers, Conaty was Director of Sports Performance for Olympic Sports at the University at Buffalo, where he oversaw the Olympic Sports Performance Department and was directly responsible for the physical development and sports nutrition efforts of the men’s basketball and volleyball programs.
Conaty’s first Division I position came at Eastern Michigan, where he spent three seasons as an assistant sports performance coach and worked directly with the men’s and women’s basketball programs in addition to women’s soccer and women’s golf. Before joining the EMU sports performance staff, Conaty served as an assistant strength & conditioning coach at Christopher Newport University, where he worked with both basketball programs and all varsity sports. He was a part of the CNU men’s basketball team’s run to the Division III Final Four.
Before his time at CNU, Conaty was a graduate assistant strength & conditioning coach at Springfield College. He also held several strength & conditioning internship positions, including stops with the Buffalo Bills, Merrimack College, IMG Academy and East Carolina University.
Conaty received his master’s degree in strength and conditioning from Springfield College, after earning his bachelor’s degree in exercise science from East Carolina University.
A native of Monticello, New York, Conaty is a certified strength & conditioning coach through the CSCCa (SCCC) and NSCA (CSCS). He is an approved CSCCa mentor, and a registered strength & conditioning coach (RSCC) through the NSCA. Conaty is also a certified sports nutritionist through the International Society of Sports Nutrition (CISSN), as well as Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified (Pn1). Additionally, he holds USAW, USATF, FMS and RPR credentials.
Conaty and his wife, Suzan, reside in Columbia with their son, Caden.
