Seton Sobolewski enters his 17th season as head coach of Idaho State women's basketball in 2024-25. Sobolewski was hired as the 12th head coach in Idaho State women’s basketball history on May 27, 2008. 

Everything Coach Sobolewski has accomplished has been done with his players in mind.

In his 17 seasons with ISU, he has coached 31 Big Sky All-Conference Team members including:

• Nine Big Sky First Team All-Conference members 
• 11 Big Sky Second Team All-Conference members 
• One Big Sky Third Team All-Conference member 
• Nine Big Sky Honorable Mention members 
• One Big Sky All-Defensive Team member 
• 22 Big Sky Conference Players of the Week. 

Some of his former standout players accolades include:   

• 14 Big Sky Conference All-Tournament Team members including MVPs Chelsea Pickering (2011-12) and Estefania Ors (2020-21). 
• One Big Sky All-Conference Newcomer of the Year (Apiphany Woods 2014-15) 
• One Big Sky All-Conference Freshman of the Year (Estefania Ors 2016-17). 
• Two Big Sky All-Conference Defensive Players of the Year (Freya Newton 2016-17, Tomekia Whitman 2021-22). 
• Two Big Sky Conference Top Reserves 
• One Big Sky Conference NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee (Oana Lacovita, 2009-10) 

Academically his resume includes:  

• 72 Big Sky All-Academic Team members 
• One Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete  

Seton’s coaching resume at Idaho State includes:

• ISU has won 272 games over the past 16 seasons. They have averaged 16 wins a year in that time frame. 
• Earned a home record is 157-63 the past 16 years. That’s a .713 winning percentage. 
• In the 16 seasons Seton has been the head coach, ISU has had 10 winning seasons overall, five losing ones and a .500 season. Three times he’s been named Big Sky Coach of the Year. 
• Idaho State Women’s Basketball has recorded seven seasons with 20+ wins in their history of 47 years. Four of those have come under Sobolewski and it has happened in three times of the past five years. 

Postseason resume includes:

• 2021-22 WNIT First Round Participant 
• 2020-21 NCAA First Round Participant 
• 2018-19 WNIT First Round Participant 
• 2012-13 WNIT First Round Participant 
• 2011-12 NCAA First Round Participant 
• 2007-08 WNIT First Round Participant 

He quickly established a winning culture and soon became the winningest coach in program history with his 94th win on February 1, 2014 against his alma matter Northern Arizona. He also led Idaho State to its fifth Big Sky Conference Title and was named Big Sky Conference Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year during the 2021-22 season. 

Through 17 seasons at Idaho State, Sobolewski has  a 271-218 record overall with an 180-116 Big Sky record. Prior to the change in the Big Sky conference tournament structure where every team makes post-season play, Sobolewski led ISU to 11-straight tournament appearances, the second longest streak in the Big Sky during the same time period.

The 2023-24 ended and the team finished with a 11-19 overall record, with a 7-12 record in the Big Sky Conference. Kasey Spink was named to the inaugural Big Sky All-Defensive Team. 

In 2022-23, Soboleski coached Callie Bourne to her 1,000th career point and Laura Bello to an All-Big Sky Honorable Mention. 

The Bengals repeated as regular-season Big Sky Champions in 2021-22. Idaho State went 19-12 overall on the season. Idaho State earned an invite to the WNIT where they faced the University of Wyoming in Laramie, falling just short in overtime 76-73. 

The Bengals had five post-season all-conference honors, Tomekia Whitman was named to the Big Sky All-Conference First Team, Estefania Ors was named second-team and Diaba Kontate earned Big Sky All-Conference Third Team honors. Tomekia Whitman was named the Big Sky Co-Defensive Player of the Year. 

For the second season in a row, Sobolewski was named the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year. 

In 2021, the Bengals went 22-4 overall and 15-2 in conference play. They won the Big Sky Regular Season Championship and the 2021 Big Sky Tournament. The Bengals faced the University of Kentucky where they fell 71-63, the first Big Sky team to keep within single-digit points in an NCAA tournament game since 1997. 

Dora Goles was named to the All-Big Sky preseason team and to the first-team All Big Sky. Diaba Konate earned second-team All-Big Sky. Montana Oltrogee and Callie Bourne were named to the 2021 All-Tournament Team and Estefania Ors was named the 2021 Big Sky Tournament MVP. 

The 2021 Big Sky Tournament Championship win also marked Sobolewski's 400th career game coached. 

He earned two coaching honors in 2021 including WhoopDirt.com National DI Coach of the Week and the Big Sky Conference Co-Coach of the Year. 

In 2020, the Bengals went 18-13 overall and 13-7 in conference play. They finished the regular season sitting No. 3 seed and would go on to make it to the semifinals of the Big Sky Tournament. Dora Goles and Callie Bourne were named Second Team All-Big Sky. Estefania Ors was named to the Preseason All-Conference team.  

In 2019, Idaho State went 20-11 for his third-best win percentage of his career. They went 15-5 in conference play to lead to a No. 3 seed in the Big Sky Tournament.  

Grace Kenyon was named to the Big Sky All-Conference First Team, Saylair Grandon was named to the Second Team and Estefania Ors earned honorable mention recognition.

In 2018, Sobolewski's squad tallied a 21-11 record for the second-best win percentage of his career. The Bengals went 11-7 in conference play to clinch the No. 5 seed in the Big Sky Tournament. 

The Bengals continued to make noise in the postseason, advancing to the semifinals after mounting the biggest comeback in tournament history against Weber State. Idaho State was trailing by 25 in the third before winning the game 113-109 in overtime. The Bengals fell in the semifinals to Northern Colorado, the eventual conference champion. 

Saylair Grandon was named to the Big Sky All-Tournament Team and Brooke Blair and Grace Kenyon earned Big Sky All-Conference Second Team honors. Estefania Ors also earned Top-Reserve honors. Additionally, the Bengals won the Most Improved Field Goal Shooting Award from the NCAA after shooting 45.8 percent from the floor. 

During the 2017 season, Sobolewski led the Bengals to their second-straight Big Sky Conference tournament championship game appearance, this time as the No. 6 seed after finishing conference play with a 10-8 record. Three Bengals earned all-conference recognition as Freya Newton earned Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors, Estefania Ors was named Outstanding Freshman while Saylair Grandon earned Big SKy All-Conference Third Team honors. 

As a team, Idaho State finished atop the conference in five categories: scoring, defense, rebounding defense, rebounding margin, defensive rebounding percentage and offensive rebounding percentage. 

In 2016, Idaho State finished ninth in Big Sky play with an 8-10 record with nine games decided by five points or less. Three Bengals finished in the top 15 in scoring (Apiphany Woods, 11th; Brooke Blair, 14th; Anna Policicchio, 15th), while Policicchio led the league and ranked 24th in the nation in blocked shots with 2.7 per contest. 

The Bengals had a memorable post-season run, knocking off No. 1 Montana State in the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference tournament off a last-second three from Juliet Jones. ISU advanced to the championship of the BSC tournament for the first time since 2012 and the fifth time in school history, losing to No. 3 Idaho 67-55. Both Policicchio and Blair earned All-Tournament honors. 

The Bengals returned to the Big Sky conference tournament in 2015 and lost to tournament host and eventual champion Montana 69-67 in the quarterfinals. ISU boasted two all-conference selections in 2015 as senior guard Apiphany Woods was selected as the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year and sophomore Megan Hochstein was one of three players to be named the Big Sky Conference Top Reserve. 

In 2014, ISU fell to tournament host and eventual Big Sky Tournament Champion North Dakota 78-53 in the tournament semifinals after defeating Eastern Washington 70-65 (OT) in the quarterfinals of the 2014 tournament. 

In 2013 Sobolewski led the Idaho State to the second straight postseason tournament. The Bengals were awarded an at-large bid to the WNIT. It was ISU’s first trip to the WNIT and the first since 2008. The Bengals lost to BYU 69-54 in the first-round. 

Sobolewski led the Bengals to their third regular-season and Big Sky Conference Tournament Championship in 2012. Under his leadership, ISU made its third trip to the NCAA Tournament in program history, facing the Miami Hurricanes in the first round. The 2012 season was Sobolewsi’s most successful. He accumulated 24 overall wins, the second most wins in a single season in program history. His 14 conference victories during the same season is also the second most conference wins in a single season in program history. His success during the season earned him his first Big Sky Coach of the Year honors. 

Since his first season, Sobolewski has helped the Bengals continuously improve its win total and for the sixth straight season posted a winning conference record. In 2011, Sobolewski led the Bengals to an 18-12 record for the third most wins in a single season in Idaho State school history. The Bengals also defeated Utah for the first time in school history. 

During the 2010-11 season the Bengals opened with a 10-game home win streak and finished 12-1 for the year. Over the 2010 and 2011 seasons, Sobolewski’s Bengals held a 14-game home win streak, the second longest in school history. 

He led the Bengals to a three-way second place tie in the Big Sky regular season with a 10-6 record during the 2009-10 season. He led the Bengals to a .500 overall record and helped Idaho State make its 12th Big Sky championship appearance. He led the Bengals to 15 victories to tie for the sixth most victories in a single season at Idaho State. 

In his first season Sobolewski helped the Bengals to a fourth-place finish in the Big Sky regular season where ISU had a near upset of Montana in the Big Sky semifinal tournament game. 

In coming to Idaho State, Sobolewski took over one of the top programs in the Big Sky Conference, as the Bengals have qualified for the postseason seven times in the past twelve seasons, winning regular season titles in 2001, 2006 and 2012 winning the conference tournament in 2001, 2007 and 2012, advancing to the NCAA Tournament all three seasons. The Bengals have also qualified for the WNIT in 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2013. 

Before Idaho State, Sobolewski was a major part of UC Riverside’s success as a Division I program that won a Big West regular season title, two Big West Tournament titles, made two NCAA appearances, and nearly upset No. 8 Arizona State in the 2007 NCAA tournament. The last four of those years were spent serving under John Margaritis, who was a former associate head coach at Northern Arizona. 

While serving as recruiting coordinator at UC Riverside, Sobolewski recruited and coached 2007 Big West Conference player of the year Kemie Nkele. The players brought in during his time as recruiting coordinator earned one Big West Conference player of the year award, one freshman of the year award, one defensive player of the year award, three Big West Conference tournament MVP awards, four All-Big West tournament awards, five first team All-Big West Conference awards, three second team All-Big West Conference awards, seven honorable mention All-Big West Conference awards, five All-Big West freshman team awards, eight Big West Conference player of the week awards, and three Big West academic all-conference award winners. These awards were won over three seasons. 

Sobolewski served one year as an assistant with the men’s program at Yavapai Junior College where the team advanced to the region tournament after going 19-12 for the year. In 2000-01, Sobolewski served as an assistant with the girls’ basketball program at Coconino High School in Flagstaff where he served under Head Coach Jenny Shayani. Coconino improved nine games that year to 15-12 overall. 

Sobolewski attended Eastern Arizona College, starting on the men’s basketball team for two years from 1995-97. He then moved to Oklahoma Panhandle State University a Division II school in Goodwell, Oklahoma where he played from 1997-99. A 2001 graduate of Northern Arizona University with a bachelor of sciences degree in Biology with an emphasis in Secondary Education, Sobolewski got his start by serving as a manager under former NAU Head Coach Meg Sanders for the 1999-00 season. 

The Bengal’s head coach hails from Flagstaff, Arizona where his parents reside. He is married to the former Katie Haan of Upland, California. They have two daughters, Aubrey and Emery.