Erin Paradis was a Division 1 soccer player at Central Connecticut State University after playing soccer and basketball at Windham High School. She has parlayed a successful athletic career into a successful coaching career with stints coaching soccer, basketball, and softball at Windham High School, St. Bernard’s High School, Coventry High School, and Lewis Mills High School. She currently is Assistant Athletic Director and Head Girls Soccer and Basketball Coach at Teacher’s Memorial Global Studies Magnet Middle School in Norwich. She is a Special Education teacher and resides in Columbia with her husband and two sons.