Framingham State College Director of Athletics Tom Kelley is
pleased to announce the hiring of Paul Wholey as the Rams head
men’s basketball coach. Wholey becomes the eighth head
coach of Framingham State College men’s basketball and
replaces Don Spellman who resigned after the 2009-10
season.
Wholey brings a wide range of experience to Framingham State
having coached at the college, high school and AAU levels.
Most recently, Wholey was the head varsity basketball coach at
Pembroke High School from 2006-2010. Wholey compiled an
overall record of 58-34 and qualified for the state tournament in
each of his four seasons at Pembroke. He also guided Pembroke
High School to the 2008-09 Patriot League Championship and the
2008-09 South Sectional Semifinals. Wholey’s other high
school coaching experience includes stints at Marshfield High
School (1994-2001), Norwell High School (1986-1994) and Hull High
School (1982-1986), his alma mater.
Wholey has also spent time as an assistant coach at the
collegiate level most recently as an assistant coach at Division II
Stonehill College in 2003-04. After graduating from the
University of Maine at Orono in 1978, Wholey spent his first three
seasons as a coach as an assistant at MASCAC rival Bridgewater
State College. Wholey is actively involved in Massachusetts
AAU as the director and coach of Pops Basketball, an AAU program
based out of Marshfield. Wholey’s Pops Program has won
multiple State Titles and qualified for several National
Championship Tournaments. He has coached multiple players
that have gone on to play at the Division I, II and III level as
institutions such as Holy Cross, Vermont, Assumption, Stonehill,
Babson, Bates and Endicott.
