Wiedler enters his second season as Head Coach of the Catamounts this fall. He was named Interim Head Coach at Vermont on July 18, 2023 after serving as an assistant coach for the previous three seasons. In January of 2024 the interim tag was removed and Coach Wiedler agreed to a four-year contract to remain at the helm of the Catamounts.
In his first year as Head Coach Wiedler led the Catamounts to a 13-19-3 record including four wins over ranked opponents and a final Pairwise ranking of 33rd in the country. The Catamounts posted their best-offensive season since 2016-17, averaging 2.71 goals per game.
In each of Wiedler's three full seasons at Vermont the Catamounts have increased their win total. In his time with the Catamounts Wiedler has worked with 10 NHL Draft picks. The Catamounts had six NHL draft picks in the 2022-23 campaign the most for the program on a single team in the 2000s.
Wiedler won a bronze medal with the Norwegian World Junior team at the 2022 championships. Norway had the second best penalty kill in the tournament.
An Assistant Coach from 2015-2018 at AIC, Wiedler earned the title of Associate Head Coach in his final year (2019-2020). His responsibilities included being the recruiting coordinator, running the penalty kill, and developing the defense.
As the recruiting coordinator at AIC, Wiedler helped build the 2018-19 and 2019-20 AIC teams that won back-to-back Atlantic Hockey Conference (AHC) regular season championships. During his tenure at AIC recruiting highlights included AIC's first Division I All-American, the 2020 Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award Winner, the 2020 AHC Goaltending Champion, the 2019 Atlantic Hockey Tournament Most Outstanding Player, the 2019 AHC Scoring Champion, the 2018 AHC Rookie of the Year, 11 AHC All-Conference selections, AIC's all-time points leader, AIC's all-time defenseman scoring leader, AIC's wins and shutouts leader, and two AIC Valedictorians.
Under Wiedler's tutelage, the team's defense had great success, allowing a mere 52 goals in 28 AHC games during the 2019-20 campaign, the fewest in AIC's history and second-fewest in AHC history. Furthermore, AIC defenseman saw a 275% increase in goals scored, a 77% increase in assists, and a 95% increase in total points during that time. A key to the defensive success was the team's penalty kill, which under Wiedler's direction operated at a program-best 89% making it the fourth ranked penalty kill in the nation in 2019-2020.
Wiedler, a native of Farmingville, New York, spent two seasons as an assistant coach at DIII Curry College in Milton, MA prior to his time at AIC. He had a two-year professional playing career with the Knoxville Ice Bears of the Southern Professional Hockey League and played collegiately at the University of Southern Maine, graduating in 2011 as team captain with a degree in history.
