Good basketball starts with defense and intensity. All the coaches at Bement focus on these vital aspects of the game through footwork and intelligent positioning. With varsity and junior varsity teams, there is a wide variety of skill and experience on the court. Our practice and home game courts are at Deerfield Academy. Like many of our other varsity sports, we often play up against high schools in the area.
Willmore Paulding has been at The Bement School for fourteen years, and over the course of that time, he has been a dorm parent and camp counselor as well as his current position of physical education teacher and boys varsity basketball and varsity lacrosse coach. Mr. Paulding has always had a passion for inspiring and working with students to help them build healthy lifelong habits and to become happy, confident movers. Throughout his time here, he has been eager to contribute to the overall athletic development of students and continue to look for ways to influence those he teaches.
