Paul Wholey Named Men’s Basketball Head Coach

Framingham, Mass. — 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, to name a few.

Wholey takes over the Framingham State College men’s basketball program after one of their most successful seasons to date. The Rams finished the 2009-10 season 16-11 overall and second in the MASCAC at 9-3. The Rams were defeated in the championship game of the MASCAC Tournament in overtime and were selected to participate in their second straight ECAC New England Tournament.