San José State alum Paige Simoneau joined the San José State volleyball program in the Spring of 2025 as the director of operations.
Simoneau transitioned to the volleyball program after serving as an assistant women’s soccer coach for the Spartan program.
The former star goalkeeper for SJSU, she was twice named the Mountain West Championship Tournament MVP, the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week four times and a United Soccer Coaches All-Pacific Region Team selection in 2018. Across her four-year career from 2015 to 2018, she registered a school-record 21 shutouts and a school-record 0.92 goals-against average. In 2018, she was named to the All-Mountain West first team after breaking SJSU single-season records with 11 shutouts and a goals-against average of 0.81.
After graduating from SJSU in 2018 with a bachelor of arts in child development, Simoneau worked as a goalkeeper coach at Santiago High School from August 2019 until September 2020 before transitioning to working at Medi-Cal for two years.