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Gauchos Get Taylor Paige For Coaching Staff

Sep. 11, 2015

Santa Barbara, CA - Taylor Paige is joining the coaching staff for the Gauchos. The UCSB Women's Lacrosse Club will put the University of Mary Washington graduate to work coaching goal keepers for both their A & B teams. Paige will also be a B Team assistant coach underneath first year B Team head coach Anne Hersman, rounding out staffing needs for the program. The Gauchos have 72 women turning out for two teams this fall. 

Paige started her coaching career while she was still in college. The Charlottesville, Virginia native believes it's important to give back to the sport of lacrosse and devoted time to coaching while attending Mary Washington and competing at the NCAA DIII level. Most recently she coached for the Seminole Lacrosse Club in Virginia. Before that she coached field players and goalies in the Stafford Youth Lacrosse League. Simultaneously with that position she was also the goalie coach for the elite teams in the Crash Lacrosse Club. Paige was the lead goalie coach during summer camps run by Mary Washington. Paige earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a minor in Economics in May of this year and will reside in Santa Barbara. Coach Taylor is primed to become a Gaucho as her favorite flavor of Gatorade is Cool Blue.

While a player at Mary Washington the 5'5" goal keeper made 187 career saves and recorded a 100% save performance in a game with Frostburg State on March 22, 2014 during her junior year when she was six for six. Just like with recently hired assistant coaches Hersman and Katelyn McAleer, Paige will be devoting significant time promoting girls lacrosse in the local community.

The UCSB assistant coaches have local lacrosse development line-itemed into their job description. They will be out and about in the community an average of 15 hours a week in addition to their UCSB coaching responsibilities. All three coaches will be teaching lacrosse to girls at elementary schools and junior high schools in partnership with the SBGLA, Goleta, Hope and Santa Barbara school districts. The goal is to teach lacrosse to 2,000 of the 3,000 girls at 27 elementary schools in the area during the school year.