Men's Basketball

Ed Collar returns as the head coach of the FM men's basketball team for the 2025-26 season. Collar previously served as the head coach for 12 twelve years beginning in the 2008-09 season. He departed in 2020 to coach his sons at Gloversville High School for five seasons. In those 12 seasons, Collar compiled 159 wins. Coach Collar led his 2018-19 team to a 20 win season and a Region 3 final four appearance. In 2017-18, his team went to the Region 3 Championship Game and fell to Herkimer 74-64.

Collar was named Mountain Valley Conference and Region 3 coach of the year in 2019.  Collar was named the Mountain Valley Conference Coach of the Year for the 2011-12 season, when the Raiders compiled a 20-10 record. Coach Collar has over 35 years of basketball coaching experience with men, boys, and girls, at age levels from kindergarten through college.     

Collar will be retiring in June 2025 after teaching 35 years of 6th grade social studies at Gloversville Middle School. He is a lifelong native of Gloversville with his wife, Verneta, and two sons, James and Jordan.