Education
Riverdale Baptist School.
Riverdale Baptist School.
Sweetney played high school basketball for Riverdale Baptist School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and played four years of college basketball for the Saint Francis Red Flash. Sweetney scored 1,529 points, seventh most in school history. He averaged 16.9 points per game during his senior year in 2009-2010.
After spending the 2010 pre-season with the Tulsa 66ers, Sweetney joined the Icelandic team Hamar in January 2011.
He later joined Barons Kvartāls of Latvia in March for the rest of the season. Sweetney sat out the 2011-2012 season, only to return in 2012-2013 and claim NBL Canada Most Valuable Player honors playing for the Moncton Miracles.
Sweetney returned to Switzerland to begin the 2014-2015 season, playing four games for Union Neuchâtel Basket before leaving the club and joining British Broadcasting Corporation Monthey in January 2015. He played a further 16 games for Monthey before joining Huracanes del Atlantico of the Dominican Republic in June 2015.
On September 28, 2015, Sweetney signed with the Denver Nuggets.
However, he was later waived by the Nuggets on October 24 after appearing in four preseason games. On November 29, he signed with Halcones Rojos Veracruz of the Mexican League.