Wareham's Aaron Cote takes his shot at Coffeyville
Wareham's Aaron Cote, the first SouthCoast player to win three basketball state titles, signs to play for top JUCO program.
WAREHAM — Aaron Cote has taken thousands of shots over his five-year high school basketball career at Wareham. He may have taken his biggest shot on Friday, May 1 as he signed to play basketball next year in Kansas at Coffeyville Community College , one of the top JUCO basketball programs in the country. “Their program has a good history,” said Cote, the 2026 Standard-Times Boys Basketball Player of the Year and 2026 Dave Cowens Award winner.
"(Coffeyville assistant coach John Weigner) was telling me about all the people that have come through and had a successful career and are now playing in the (NBA) G League or Div. I. I said, ‘I might as well take the shot.
’ “I feel like this is a big stepping stone. I had choices to go somewhere in Massachusetts, but I chose to go far away and just lock in on basketball and school. ” “When we were looking at schools, we were looking at many different pathways, but we said what is the path of least resistance to get to your goal that you want to get there,” said Wareham head coach Steve Faniel of how Cote decided on Coffeyville.
“He’s there to play basketball. He’s there to do school work. With nothing else around him, I think he can lock in and focus on doing that.
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