Sean Manaea parents are Faaloloi Manaea and Opal Manaea. Opal is a factory worker while Faaloloi worked for the Inland Steel Company.
Manaea is a professional baseball pitcher. He plays for the San Francisco Giants of MLB.
He was named the best prospect in the Cape Cod baseball league during his college baseball at Indiana State University.
He also won the league’s Outstanding Prospect award and Summer National Player of the Year by Perfect Game USA.
Sean played for the Kansas City Royals and was promoted to the Northwest Arkansas Naturals of the Class AA Texas League after making four starts for Wilmington.
He was named to the AFL All-Prospect team and AFL Rising Star with the Oakland Athletics.
Manaea pitched in Game 2 of the American League Division Series against the Houston Astros in 2020.
Sean Manaea Childhood
Sean Manaea was born on February 1, 1992, and raised in Wanatah, Indiana. He grew up with his two brothers Dave Manaea and David Manaea.
He had a great childhood playing baseball in his hometown’s cornfields and messing around. Manaea had a great interest in playing baseball from a young age.
Growing up his idol was Johan Santana’s baseball pitch. He grew up watching Johan’s game and used to find a channel that he was on.
Sean studied at the South Central Junior-Senior High School in Union Mills, Indiana.
He studied there for three years and transferred to Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana.
Though he played baseball in his school career, he was not selected for Major Baseball League. He then attended Indiana State University for his college and competed in baseball.
He played for the Indiana State Sycamores baseball team in the Missouri Valley Conference of NCAA’s Division I.
For his successful baseball career, Sean’s family has always been there for him. His father moved from American Soman to Hawaii after serving in the Vietnam War.
Sean got his sleeve tattoo with traditional Samoan symbols in 2014 when he traveled to American Samoa.
Mom and Dad Always Supported Him
Sean’s parents have given him a lot of career support.
His mother Opal and father Faaloloi always attend his game and cheer him up. Sean wished his mother a happy birthday and thanked her for everything she had done for him.
Opal and Faaloloi watched his son pitch for the first time in his young career on June 23, 2018, in Chicago.
Manaea is also close with his father. On the occasion of father’s day, he posted a picture on his Instagram account and stated, ‘Wouldn’t be where I am today without you. Love you, Dad.’
Sean Manaea Has Two Brothers
Sean Manaea has two siblings, Dane Manaea and half-brother David Manaea.
Sean was welcomed by his older brother Dane on the pitch on Military in San Diego as he made his major league debut. Dane works in the United States Navy.
They both hugged and had a quick chat in front of the Petco Park mound. Dane then left the field while Sean started his pregame warm-up.
Dane Manaea
Dane is a Wanatah native and works in a US Navy abroad USS Blue Ridge.
He graduated from Township High School. He is a hospital corpsman on the forward-deployed naval command ship based in Yokosuka, Japan.
Dane is in charge of giving the ship’s sailors medical attention as a Naval hospital corpsman. He offers transportation, prescription, minor surgery, first aid, and patient care.
Growing up in a small town in Wanatah, he learned that kindness is a golden rule.
David Manaea
David is the half-brother of Sean and Dane Manaea.
Growing up, David was a great big part of Sean’s life. Sean always used to visit him when he was younger.
Sean Manaea Girlfriend
Sean Manaea girlfriend Taliah Mirmalek is a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley. Sean dating life was official on July 13, 2020.
Manaea posted a picture of him and Mirmalek with the caption ‘A couple of squares make a rectangle right?’
Since 2020, he hasn’t posted anything regarding his relationship. Taliah, on the other hand has kept her Instagram account private.
She completed her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mirmalek also attended Diablo Valley College and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Her Instagram username is @talatmirmalek.
Taliah Loves Volunteer Work
According to her LinkedIn account, she has worked as a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley-School of law, since January 2022.
She has also participated in volunteer work. Taliah volunteered at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, Berkeley Law Afghanistan Project, and Centro Legal de la Raza.
She started her career working as a math teacher at Blueprint School Network in November 2019. She then served as a law clerk in Renne Public Law Group for ten months, from August 2021 to May 2022.
Taliah was a student advocate for three months at Equal Justice Centre.