Sean Farnham
American sports analyst
Sean Travis Farnham (born September 16, 1977) is an American sports analyst who covers college basketball for ESPN. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins.
Farnham typically calls games featuring the Southeastern Conference as part of ESPN's Super Tuesday and Thursday Night Showcase packages, while he has previously called games for the Big Ten Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Western Athletic Conference, West Coast Conference Pac-12 Conference and the Big 12 Conference.
Before joining ESPN, Farnham worked for CBS Sports Network, then known as CSTV and CBS College Sports, calling games from the Mountain West Conference, the Atlantic 10 Conference, and Conference USA. He has also called Pac-12 games for Fox Sports West.
Early life
Farnham was born in Walnut Creek, California. He grew up in Clayton, California, and attended De La Salle High School, where he played basketball. Farnham was a member of the powerful Oakland Soldiers AAU program; it was on this team that he gained attention for his play at the BCI event in Phoenix in July 1993, where he was named BCI All-American. He led De La Salle to their first-ever NorCal championship his senior year in 1996, when they also faced Crenshaw in the D-1 state final. After high school, Farnham would play for the UCLA Bruins from 1997–2000.
College career
Farnham entered UCLA as a walk-on so he could play for a national title contender, passing up athletic scholarship offers from other universities. He earned a scholarship days before the start of his freshman year.
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