At nine years old, Sean Stewart walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium for the first time, and so began a love story. Stewart absorbed all there was to see, feel and breathe of Duke Basketball. The air is just different there. After that, the Duke Basketball program became a goal – a mission. Cut to December 2021: with a Duke offer in hand, it was time to make a dream into a reality for the 6’8″, 225lb power forward. Duke was it.
The Floridian out of Montverde Academy comes from a basketball family with his father, Michael “Yogi” Stewart, having had an eight-year NBA career and his grandfather, Mike, having had a prestigious career at Santa Clara, taking home the WCC Player of the Year in 1972, then enjoying an eight-year career overseas.