Paige Conrad joined the swimming & diving staff as an assistant coach in September of 2018.
During her fourth year at JMU, Conrad helped the Dukes achieve a fifth consecutive team title as they won the ECAC Championships after being barred from competing for a CAA team title.
Conrad helped JMU achieve program history by winning their fourth consecutive CAA title, 11th in program history. She assisted the Dukes to a record of 4-0 overall, and 1-0 in conference.
In her second year with JMU, she helped the Dukes finish 8-2 overall, 6-0 in conference and claim their tenth CAA championship.
In her first year with the Dukes, Conrad helped the team to a 9-2-1 record, including an unblemished 4-0 Colonial Athletic Association record, while earning the program’s ninth CAA championship.
Prior to coming to Harrisonburg, Paige served a three-year stint at Illinois State University where she worked with all the different swim groups. She helped coach student-athletes to 17-plus individual school records and over 200 season-best times. Under her advising, 14 athletes were named to the all-conference team, while the team held an average 3.5 GPA.
Outside of the pool, Conrad's responsibilities included coordinating recruiting, overseeing academic efforts for the student-athletes, coordinating travel, working with media, community service outreach and promoting and fundraising for the team.
Before her three years with the Redbirds, she was an assistant coach for both the men's and women's swimming programs at Lewis University. Conrad served as strength and condition coach, recruiting coordinator, coordinated meals and travel, managed the team budget and managed team statistics in her time with Lewis.
Conrad graduated from the University of Idaho in 2014, with a bachelor's of science in psychology, where she was a four-year swimmer for the Vandals. She competed in freestyle, butterfly and backstroke events and was a member of the 800 freestyle relay team.