Paige Storm is the first-ever coach to lead the Buena Vista's women's wrestling program and begins her fourth season in 2025-26.
During the team's first competition season in 2023-24, Storm helped guide three individual regional placewinners. A year later, the Beavers won their first-ever dual and was 4-2 overall and landed three all-conference performers during the inaugural A-R-C Tournament.
Overall, Storm has coached three regional placewinners, three all-conference performers, three Scholar All-American selections and one academic all-conference honoree.
Storm is a Spencer, Iowa, native and began wrestling in elementary school. Her father, Dave, has coached wrestling for the Tigers for over three decades. She went on to become a four-year boys’ wrestling letterwinner for Spencer High School from 2005-08. Prior to high school, Storm was a Folkstyle national champion in 2003 within the United States Girls Wrestling Association (USGWA) and a two-time 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.
In 2021-22, Storm served as Girls Wrestling Coach at Harrisburg High School in South Dakota, and helped coach seven state qualifiers, four state place winners, including one state champion. As a team, it went on to earn a fourth-place finish. During the 2020-21 season, Storm served as a volunteer Girls Wrestling Coach at Lennox High School and helped coach a pair of state placewinners, including one state runner-up. BVU alum, Blake Crosby, was coach of that Lennox HS team.
Storm wrestled collegiately for a private club and then attended Buena Vista and graduated in December of 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology. Since 2016, she has been employed by the South Dakota State Penitentiary where she most recently served as a case manager.
Storm’s husband, Carlos Barreda, is a BVU wrestling alum.
