Biography:
PAUL WIEDEMAN
HEAD BOYS BASKETBALL COACH
Alma Mater: Haddonfield Memorial 1989
Rowan University 1993
Career Record: 475 - 112
Experience: Entering 21st Season as HMHS Head Coach.
Coach Wiedeman played basketball at Haddonfield Memorial High School and won a NJ Group 1 State Championship in 1989 with a record of 31-1 and finished the season as the #1 team in South Jersey. Coach Wiedeman continued his academic and athletic career at Rowan University and was Captain of the 1993 Rowan's Mens Basketball Final Four team that finished with a school record 29 wins and 2 losses.
Coach Wiedeman's Haddonfield High School coaching career began in 1999 and has won 475 games, which is the most coaching wins in Haddonfield Boys Basketball history. He is currently 12th all time in South Jersey Boys Basketball history in career wins. Coach Wiedeman has won 5 New Jersey Group 2 State Championships, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2018, 2019. He is currently tied for third all time in South Jersey for most state championships as a coach. His teams have also captured 7 South Jersey Group 2 championships and 14 Colonial Conference Titles. His teams have also won at least 20 or more games 17 out of the 20 seasons he has coached. Coach Wiedeman was the fastest coach in SJ history to accumulate 200 career victories.
In addition Coach Wiedeman was inducted into the Al Carino South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. He has been named Philadelphia Inquirer Coach of the Year in 2006 as well as the Courier Post Coach of the Year in 2006 & 2007. In 2018 & 2019 Coach Wiedeman was the Philadelphia Inquirer's SJ Gr2 Coach of the Year in 2018 & 2019.
Along with coaching the high school's Boys Basketball Team, Coach Wiedeman co- coachs the HMHS golf team as well as teaches Health & Physical Education at Haddonfield Memorial since 2002. Coach Wiedeman also serves as a Basketball Clinician for the HYBA Summer Camps since 2004.
An interesting fact is that Coach Wiedeman played for his father, Dave Wiedeman, at Haddonfield Memorial High School who also has won over 400 basketball games, including 2 State Championships and was also inducted into the Al Carino Basketball Hall of Fame.
Contact:
Email: pwiedema@haddonfield.k12.nj.us