Career Highlights
East Gaston High School 2004-2008: Basketball – freshman, all-conference team, all-Gazette first team, Observer all-Gaston 2nd team, EGHS offense award; sophomore, all-conference, First Charter Holiday Classic all-tournament, all-Gazette 2nd team, Observer all-Gaston 2nd team, EGHS co-MVP; junior, conference player of the year, all-conference team, all-Gazette team, Observer all-region, Holiday Classic MVP, EGHS co-MVP; senior, all-conference, all-Gazette first team, EGHS MVP, NCHSAA scholar athlete, East-West all-star game, Charlotte Pro-Am All-Star Classic. Cross-Country – All-Conference team (4 years); Softball – freshman, all-conference 3A/4A team; sophomore, co-MVP, Big South all-conference, All-Gazette second team; junior co-MVP, all-conference; senior – co-offense award, all-conference.
Lenoir-Rhyne University 2008-2012: freshman, started 31-of-32 games, 8.1 ppg, 3.7 reb., 2.4 assists; sophomore, started 22-of-26 games, 11.6 ppg, 5.3 reb., totaled 55 assists; junior, led team with 50 steals, all-conference 2nd team, 17.9 ppg, 5.3 rebounds, total of 70 assists; senior, led team with 45 steals. All-conference first team, two-time conference player of the week, all-southeast regional 2nd team, 16.1 ppg, 5.6 rebounds, totaled 64 assists. Bachelor’s degree, Sports Management.
Concordia University: Master’s degree, Athletic Administration (2014-2016).
Coaching: 2012-13 – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, assistant coach; 2013-2015 – University of South Carolina-Aiken, assistant coach; 2015-2016 – Georgia State University, assistant coach / recruiting coordinator; 2016-2017: Wofford College, assistant coach / recruiting coordinator; Lenoir-Rhyne – 2017-2020, head coach; Belmont Abbey – 2021, assistant coach.
Cameron Sealey Flachofsky
The court agenda.
Cameron Sealey Flachofsky excelled in basketball in high school, college, and as a coach.
It began with innocent, childhood curiosity. Cameron Sealey was 5. She tagged along with her father, who coached basketball at the local rec center, and discovered she could hold that great big ball and bounce it and throw it high in the air and through the net.
“It got me going, and I was liking it. I thought, I really like this because I can keep up with the boys,” Sealey says. “It was co-ed.” Fast forward to high school.
Sealey played point guard and shooting guard for East Gaston from 2004-2005 through her senior season, 2008. She was All Big South Conference every year; All-Gazette first team three times, second team once. She made the Charlotte Observer’s All-Gaston second team twice, its All-Regional team as a junior and was East Gaston’s MVP her senior year when she averaged 14 points per game, 5.6 assists and 3.2 rebounds. She received NCHSAA Scholar Athlete recognition and was invited to play in the 16th-annual Charlotte Pro-Am All-Star Classic.
“I just remember that’s when I truly learned what hard work was, through my coach Ernie Bridges, and that’s when I realized I wanted to do it in college,” she says. “I think my mentality changed a little bit, and I thought, if I want to get there, I need to do this. My parents helped me a ton and let me also play AAU basketball and provided the funds to do that. I was playing with Carolina Express, and we started the recruitment process.”
Basketball wasn’t her only uniform. Sealey also ran high school cross-country and played softball. Her success in high school, college and, later, as a college coach has earned her a spot in the Mount Holly Sports Hall of Fame.
“I know in high school, my parents didn’t miss a game and I think in college, between my parents and grandparents, if I added all my games all four years of college, my parents and grandparents may have missed 10 game all together,” she says. “They made it fun.”
Cameron Sealey wasn’t the only athlete in the house. Her twin sister, Tameron, played softball and basketball and ran cross-country. Tameron – also a Hall of Fame inductee – excelled in softball.
“We did cross-country to stay in shape,” Cameron says. “I did softball to be with my sister, and she played basketball to be with me. “We never set still.”
Sealey received a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Lenoir-Ryne, with a minor in psychology. She had an immediate impact on the college’s basketball team, playing in 31 of 32 games and averaging 8.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists as a freshman. She averaged 11.6 points her sophomore year and 17.9 points as a junior, when she led the team with 50 steals and was All-South Atlantic Conference second team.
Her senior year, 2011-2012, she was first team all-conference, led the team with 45 steals, was conference player-of-the-week twice, All-Southeast Regional second team and was MVP of the 2011 Mount McKinley Bank North Star Invitational Championship, held in Fairbanks, Alaska. After graduation, Sealey traded her uniform for a clipboard.
She was assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown in 2012-2013, then spent two seasons as assistant coach at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, then one year as assistant at Georgia State University in Atlanta while earning her master’s degree in athletic administration from Concordia (PA) University.
In 2017, she became the head women’s basketball coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Her 2019 team reached the South Atlantic Conference tournament semifinals. She resigned in March 2020. She was 27.
“The difference between playing and coaching is, with coaching, you have no control over the [scoring in the] game. People like to think we do, but it’s the people with the ball – and that was really hard to adjust to,” she says. “I was in administration and training staff and managing people older than me, and I was one of the youngest head coaches.”
She knew basketball wouldn’t last forever, and when COVID-19 hit, she felt it was time to explore options. “I just think that, at the time, I didn’t know that getting out of coaching was what I needed, but then I realized, between COVID and resigning, that that was what was supposed to happen with my life,” she says. “My fiancé, now husband, and I talked about it.”
She thought basketball was behind her – but got a call from Belmont Abbey and was assistant coach there a year before switching gears for good.
She and her husband, Nick Flachofsky, started a business – Safeway Traffic Control – which provides road services for communities and businesses, such as planning and marking road closures, work zones, alternate routes and redirection of traffic to ensure safety for the general public and emergency response teams.
“I realized I didn’t have time to coach anymore,” she says. “I got married and not long after that, I got pregnant.”
A whole new gameplan.
“The Hall of Fame is a great honor. When I got the job at Lenoir-Ryne, my opening statement was how life came full circle,” she says. “I started playing basketball, then I was coaching it. But I think now, this is where my circle completes. My home, my family, my business, living near my parents and grandparents and the peace that I feel. I think to be honored in Mount Holly is special. The people here have had a huge impact on my life.”
Rewind, to innocent, childhood curiosity.
Sealey and Nick have an 11-month-old daughter.
She’s too tiny to hold that great big ball and throw it high into the air, but … Stay tuned.