Miranda Paris enters her sixth season as an assistant coach and her third year of serving as the novice coach and recruiting coordinator at Northeastern. She is the first point of contact for future Huskies and is primarily responsible for coordinating and executing both on- and off-campus recruiting efforts. She coaches the recruited freshmen and walk-ons, while helping them transition to the rigors of being a successful Division I student-athlete.
Her Third Varsity Eight won a bronze medal at the 2011 Eastern Sprints, surpassing their fifth-place seed heading into the regatta. The crew finished its regular season undefeated with a 12-0 record. The previous year her crew finished sixth in the Grand Final. She also assisted with the Second Varsity Eight that year, helping them in the final weeks of the year to a ninth-place finish, improving on their 11th-place seed. She was nominated for the 2011 CRCA New England Regional Assistant Coach of the Year award.
Paris graduated cum laude from Wellesley College with a degree in English. After walking on to the team, Paris rowed for four years and captained the Blue as a senior in 2003, leading Wellesley to a fourth-place finish at its first-ever NCAA appearance, a NEWMAC Championship, and a bronze medal at the ECAC Championships. She was a NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Scholar Athlete and a CRCA Scholar Athlete. Twice she was named MVP. Post-graduation, Paris trained as a sculler with Riverside Boat Club’s High Performance Group, winning medals at Club Nationals, Canadian Henley and the Head of the Charles. During this time, Paris worked at State Street Bank and Arnold Worldwide.
In 2006, she was diagnosed with a genetic heart condition that terminated her athletic career, but fortuitously enabled her to redirect her passion for rowing into coaching. She served as an assistant coach with the Lightweight Men’s HPG at Riverside, guiding them to three back-to-back wins in the Senior Lightweight Men’s Eight in 2006, 2007 and 2008, as well as the Senior Lightweight Men’s Four in 2006 and 2008. She assisted Bruce Smith with the training of the U.S. Lightweight Men’s Eight in 2006 and 2007, traveling to Eton, England, and Munich, Germany, for the World Championships. She continues to work with pre-elite athletes at Riverside during the summers.
Paris was hired in the fall of 2006 and received her MS in sports leadership from Northeastern in 2008.
