Paige Wright will be entering her third season as the women's assistant basketball coach.  Coach Wright assists the Lady Bucs program in all facets, such as: game film breakdown, scouting reports, on-floor practicing, film exchange, community service, travel operations, academic monitoring, game day preparation and bench coaching and player development. 

Paige recently was the women’s graduate assistant basketball coach for Minot State University in Minot, ND.  She graduated with a Master of Science in Sports Management at Minot and a Bachelor of Arts degree is in Communications from California University at Pennsylvania.

Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach Paige Wright commented on her new position, “I chose Dawson because I’ll be coming into a successful program that’s ran by a great coach.  Coach Lagmay has been in this game for a long time and I know I’ll learn so much while working for him.  We have a great group of girls this year and I’m excited to work with them, and work towards a championhip!”

Most recently, she was under the tutelage of veteran Minot coaches Sheila Green Gerding and current head coach Mark Graupe, during the 2016-2018 seasons.  At Minot, Paige assisted with post player development, prepared scouting reports, monitored academic progress, film breakdown and coordinated and managed individual and team camps.  She mentored 1^st Team All-NSIC player Holly Johnson in 2017-2018, and contributed to a quick program turnaround of 14 wins being named the 10^th most improved in NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball for the 2017-2018 campaign.  Minot only won 4 games the season prior.  Head Coach Mark Graupe congratulated Paige on her new Dawson position, “Paige was an excellent college player, and now with 2 years of NCAA Division II coaching experience, hopefully she can help DCC win a Region 13 title.”

Other work experience includes being a camp instructor for Breakthrough Basketball in Minot and Dickinson, and coached AAU for Always 100 U17 in Fort Wayne.

As a player, Paige had a successful overall career record of 98-24, which includes a 2015 NCAA Division II National Championship at California University (PA).  During her time at Cal, they also won 2 PSAC Tournament Championships, 1 PSAC regular season conference championship and participated in 2 NCAA Tournament appearances.  As a native hoosier, she played and graduated from Northrop High School in 2012.  After Northrop, she received a scholarship to play for Saginaw Valley State University, an NCAA Division II institution located in University Center, MI.  After one season at Saginaw Valley, she transferred to Owens Community College in Perrysburg, OH playing her sophomore season in 2013-2014.  At Owens, they won the 2014 OCCAC regular season conference championship, where she was selected an All-Conference player.

Paige is currently a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and Montana Coaches Association.