Senque Carey (first name pronounced Sen-CUE) spent one season with FGCU as an assistant coach in 2015-16. A renowned recruiter, Carey has also spent time at Hawai'i, Fresno State, Portland State and his alma mater, New Mexico.

In his year with FGCU, Carey was part of the Eagles' third-straight 20-win season (21-14) as the Green and Blue won their second Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Championship in four years. FGCU won its third NCAA Tournament game in four years with a 96-65 victory over 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson in the First Four – with the 31-point margin of victory in that round of the tournament being the largest in NCAA history.
 
The Eagles would go on to face top-seeded North Carolina in the First Round and trailed by just one at halftime, 41-40, before falling to the eventual national runner-up Tar Heels in Raleigh, 83-67.
 
After finishing tied for 2nd place in the A-Sun regular season with an 8-6 record, FGCU received the 4th seed in the A-Sun Tournament and won three games in six days – including a 33-point rout at top-seeded North Florida in the semifinals – to win the title.
 
Under Carey guidance, Marc-Eddy Norelia garnered the following awards in 2015-16: A-Sun First Team, A-Sun Tournament MVP, A-Sun All-Tournament Team, NABC All-District First Team, Division I-AAA ADA Men’s Scholar-Athlete Team and three-time A-Sun Player of the Week. Norelia set the program’s single-season record for points (597), rebounds (325) and field goals made (234), and shattered the program’s single-season mark for double-doubles with 16 (seven more than anyone else).

Working with FGCU's low-post players, Carey helped FGCU finish 4th in the nation in 2015-16 in the percentage of total points that came from 2-point baskets at 61.1 percent. FGCU averaged 38.7 points per game in the paint, outscored its opponents in the paint by an average of 8.6 per game and had four games of 50 or more points in the paint.

Carey spent the 2014-15 season with the University of Hawai’i as an assistant coach, helping lead the Rainbow Warriors to a 22-13 record and berth in the Big West Conference Tournament Championship. A renowned recruiter, Carey has also spent time at Fresno State, Portland State and his alma mater, New Mexico.

Among several NBA players that Carey has recruited and developed is Paul George, the No. 10 overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and eventual NBA All Star with the Indiana Pacers. George was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player in 2013, in addition to being an All-NBA Third Team selection and All-Defensive Second Team member the same year.

FGCU head coach Joe Dooley was an assistant coach at New Mexico from 1999-02. Carey, who began his playing career at Washington in 1999, transferred to New Mexico in 2000-01 and played his junior season with the Lobos in 2001-02 with Dooley on the sidelines.

Shortly after his playing career ended in 2002 he began his coaching career at New Mexico as an undergraduate assistant for the 2003-04 season. He then served as an assistant at Portland State in 2004-05 before his coaching career took off during his five-year stint at Fresno State.

While with the Bulldogs from 2005-10, Carey recruited and coached – in addition to George – 2007 NBA Second Round pick Dominic McGuire and 2010 WAC (Western Athletic Conference) Freshman of the Year Greg Smith, who spent three seasons with the Houston Rockets from 2011-14 before spending last year with the Dallas Mavericks. Additionally, Carey has produced a plethora of other players who have enjoyed successful professional careers overseas.

Beyond his successful recruiting and coaching at Fresno State – Carey oversaw six different WAC all-team selections in five years – he helped guide a dramatic academic turnaround which produced the largest Academic Progress Rate (APR) improvement in the country. Additionally, the program had its first Academic All-District honoree, six WAC All-Academic Team selections and the graduation of 10 men’s basketball student-athletes from December 2007 to May 2009, the most during such a span in program history.

Following his time with Fresno State, Carey started his own business in 2010 – The Basketball Experience, a coaching program that provided training for players at all levels through camps, clinics, private workouts and tournaments. During that same time from 2010-13 he also served as the head coach of the Menlo-Atherton High School boys’ basketball team in Menlo Park, Calif.

Carey returned to collegiate coaching at LMU, coaching a WCC (West Coast Conference) First Team selection and two WCC All-Freshman Team members alongside Abatemarco.

A former all-conference freshman selection himself, Carey was a Pac-10 All-Freshman Team member for Washington in 1999, playing all 28 games with 17 starts and averaging 8.7 points and 3.1 rebounds with 94 assists. After transferring to New Mexico and serving as the team’s starting point guard in 2001-02, Carey suffered a career-ending injury early in his senior season in 2002-03.