
My name is Paul Fricker and along with my wife Shannan and 5-year-old son Ford, we have been living in Wellen Park since 2020. I work for the IRS as a computer programmer/analyst. I've been a Collegiate and High School baseball umpire for 25 years and officiate games down here in Sarasota County.

After playing basketball, baseball, and football in high school, my career in coaching started at age 18 in Philadelphia. Coaching organized travel ball for 10 years at the 9-year-old boys level winning the Club's first ever Championship.
I then moved to coaching girl's basketball at the 12-year old travel level for 4 years winning another Championship for the first time.

I started as the Head Girls Varsity Coach at the grade school level, coaching 5 years and making it to the Region Championship game each season and winning it 3 times. This qualified us for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia tournament that consisted of over 120 schools. Our teams made it to the quarter finals twice, Semi-Finals once, and the Finals twice winning once.
I then accepted a position as the JV Boys basketball Head Coach at Friends Select HS. After a year I was offered the Girls Head Coach job there and turned around a 3 win program into a playoff team in 2 years.
I then moved on to coach in the very competitive Philadelphia Catholic League with St. Hubert HS for Girls as an assistant coach. I spent 6 years as the Varsity Assistant and was the Head Coach for 1 year. I moved on to Florida and landed a job at Venice HS as the JV Head Boys Coach for 2 years and 2 years at North Port HS as the Head JV Coach.
Next season I will be the Girls JV Head Coach at our new Wellen Park HS!!

Talking strategy during a timeout at St Hubert HS.

Before coming to Florida I also coached a boys travel team that won our Conference Championship. Most of these boys went on to great HS careers.

Boys JV Basketball 2022.
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