Paige Love

Paige Love

Paige Love will enter her fourth season as a Texas State assistant coach in 2025-26 and her eighth season overall with the Bobcats. She was a member of the Texas State coach staff as a graduate assistant and assistant coach from 2016 to 2020.

Love, who has won a conference championship as a student-athlete and coach, works with the Texas State guards, assists with recruiting and does advance scouting of opponents. She earned the title of recruiting coordinator following the Bobcats' 2022-23 championship season.

Following a stellar playing career at UNC Asheville (2012-16), where she helped the Bulldogs earn the program's second NCAA Division I Women's Basketball berth in school history in 2016, Love joined the Texas State women's basketball program as a graduate assistant prior to the 2016-17 season. Two years later, Love was promoted to a full-time assistant coach on Zenarae Antoine's staff. After two years at her alma mater (2020-21 and 2021-22), Love returned to Texas State in April 2022.

During her time on the Bobcat bench, Love coached four All-Sun Belt student-athletes — Taeler Deer, Toshua Leavitt, Brooke Holle, and Kennedy Taylor — while helping the Bobcats win a share of the Sun Belt regular season championship in 2022-23, reach the WNIT twice (2018, 2023), and win a Division I program-record 23 games on two occasions (2018, 2023).

In her first season back with the Bobcats in 2022-23, Love primarily worked with shooting guards and helped Tianna Eaton and Ja'Kayla Bowie have career years. Eaton led the team in blocks while averaging 9.0 points and 4.6 rebounds. Bowie, meanwhile, had personal-bests in points, rebounds, assists, steals and minutes played.

Love returned to her alma mater following the 2019-20 season when she was named assistant coach. During her first season back in Asheville, Love was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Thirty-Under-30 list, a list comprised of the top 30 up-and-coming women's basketball coaches aged 30 and under at all levels of collegiate women's basketball. 

In her first stint with the Bobcats, Love helped the Bobcats match the program's Division I record for wins in a season in 2017-18 and make an appearance in that season's WNIT -- the program's first WNIT berth in 10 years.

Following the historic season, Love was a roundtable speaker at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Convention at the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio, where she presented "Behind the Scenes: The Graduate Assistant Life."

As a student-athlete at UNC Asheville, Love helped guide the Bulldogs to the 2015-16 Big South regular season and tournament championship. The Bulldogs clinched the program's second bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. Asheville earned the No. 14 seed in the Lexington Regional and drew a first round matchup with the host Kentucky Wildcats.

During the season, Love was a winner of the William and Ida Friday Award for Service to Community, a nominee for the WBCA All-State Good Works Team, the John Wooden Citizenship Cup and the NCAA Woman of the Year award. At the conclusion of her senior year, Love was named the UNCA Female "Big Dog of the Year" and earned the UNCA Bulldog Service and Leadership Award.

Love graduated from UNC Asheville in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in health and wellness promotion and received a master's degree in exercise science at Texas State in 2018.