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Paige Storm, Spencer High School Hall of Fame induction
Amanda Young

Paige Storm Inducted into Spencer High School Hall of Fame

12/12/2025 9:30:00 AM

STORM LAKE, Iowa (Dec. 11, 2025) - Buena Vista University women's wrestling coach Paige Storm was inducted into the Spencer High School Dave Schaefer Hall of Fame on Thursday, Dec. 4, between duals as Spencer hosted a double dual with GTRA and Okoboji-HMS.

Storm began her wrestling career early in her elementary years at Spencer in first grade and never looked back. She continued to compete all the way through her senior year and then went on to compete post-graduation. During that time, which spanned from 1996-2008, Storm manufactured an illustrious list of accomplishments to her resume and enjoyed all the blood, sweat and tears along the way.

I was very humbled. It’s hard to separate my career as a competitor and now as a coach. As long as I’m living, my journey with wrestling will continue. I'm very humbled by it. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of support from my family and my coaches so I haven’t been alone in my journey. As long as I’m living, my journey with wrestling will continue.
Paige Storm, BVU head women's wrestling coach & 2025 Spencer High School Hall of Fame Inductee

Among the long list of accolades from her career,  Storm was a 4x Boys Wrestling varsity letterwinner (2005-08), a 6x United States Girls Wrestling Association (USGWA) Iowa state champion, a 4x USGWA national qualifier which included a national title in 2003 while in middle school, and became a 2x freestyle national champion (2003 & 2004). In 2006, she became the state of Iowa’s first two-time Junior women’s freestyle All-American and was named the Iowa Wrestling Federation’s Female Wrestler of the Year.

Despite all of those accolades and accomplishments, Paige admits that she wasn't expecting such an honor.

It caught me off guard,” she says. ‘I was surprised and definitely honored. I didn’t feel like I did anything that was ‘Hall of Fame’ worthy."

Paige Storm, Spencer High School Hall of Fame induction
Carlos Barreda, Paige Storm, and Dave Storm (Amanda Young photo)

Storm comes from a wrestling background as her father, Dave, also wrestled for Spencer High School and has been a long-time wrestling coach at Spencer High School for nearly three decades. He is currently the high school head girls wrestling coach while her brother, Brock, is his assistant. As she looks back on the many memories, she says she can't pick out just one that stands out as being her favorite.

I don’t have one particular accomplishment that resonates with me more than any other, but being part of my team and being able to wrestle on the same high school team alongside my brother, Brock, ranks right up there,” she says. “Being invited to train at the Olympic Training Center was also an amazing experience.”

“At the time, I didn’t realize it, because I was just doing what I loved, but I had the privilege of wrestling for some of the best coaches in the world while on an incredibly supportive team," Storm adds. "Now with the acceptance, progression, and explosion of girls wrestling, I’ve come to realize I was part of a movement. I take a lot of pride in that!”

Storm is currently in her fourth year as head coach of the Beaver women's wrestling program and has already produced three regional placewinners, three all-conference performers, three Scholar All-American selections and one academic all-conference honoree in the program's three years of competition.