ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Paige Moore had a summer that she will always remember.

Moore, a junior at Roberts Wesleyan University and member of the women's cross country team, married her high school sweetheart Mason Moore near her hometown of Denver, Pa.
Moore said that she cherished the opportunity to share the day with her new husband, family and friends.

"When am I going to have his family all together, my family all together, all of our friends together?" she said. "It just was the perfect opportunity to have everybody we love and who supported our relationship together to celebrate us and we got to celebrate with them as well."

Moore, whose maiden name is Reeser, finished second at the 2025 East Coast Conference Championships and will try to help the Redhawks to a 12^th straight ECC title when Roberts hosts the conference championship on Saturday.

Moore, a Nursing major, also leads the way in the classroom with a 4.0 grade point average, has been selected the Roberts Wesleyan University Female Scholar-Athlete of the Month for October.

An active member of the campus community, Moore is a member of the Nursing Club and Faith in Action. She enjoys hiking, cooking, reading and singing in her spare time.

Moore took a few moments to discuss life as a student-athlete at Roberts. Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Will you please tell us more about your wedding?
"I'm from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,and I got married at an art museum, which was really cool. It was June 20th and all of our friends and family were able to be there, and yeah, so it was a great time."

What was your favorite part of the day?
"Just being able to dance and have fun with all my friends and family, that was great, and also the food we had was amazing. The whole part of being married at the end of the day was great, but I really had fun dancing with all my friends."

How did you get involved with running?
"I started running back in seventh grade when my school offered middle schoolers to join a sport. I did Girls on the Run in fourth grade, and my mom was  a runner. She did like road runs and running for her own fun, so I was always interested in it a little bit. I tried soccer and I wanted to get into dance, but it just never really worked out. I tried cross country in seventh grade, and I haven't stopped since, and this is going to be either my ninth or 10th year. I think next year will be my 10th year running which is crazy."

What do you love most about the sport?
"I love just being able to push myself and be able to just see what I can do and the capabilities I have. I truly think God has given me a gift and being able to use that. I don't want to overwork myself and I don't want to push myself to my ends, but I think just seeing how much I can accomplish by putting in effort has really been cool to see. I also love being able to be with my friends running and just being able to push one another to our best has also been really beneficial and exciting."

How has your season gone so far?
"This season has been a little bit tricky. I came into the season having a little bit of an Achilles flare-up, and I just kept getting set back a little bit. So, my running hasn't really been up to the level which I know I'm capable of right now but I've had good weeks of training the last two or three weeks, and I'm excited to see what ECCs holds, and then hopefully into the rest of the championship season. So, not necessarily like a big injury, but just kind of falling behind a little bit in training. I'm just trying to play catch up and we'll see where the rest of the season goes."

What drew you to nursing?
"I have always had a love for caring for other people and helping other people. My mom is a nurse, so I've been able to understand a little bit more that what goes into nursing and how that then affects your family and everything like that. So, just seeing what she's done and the impact she's made in other people's lives was really inspiring."

Is there a particular kind of nursing that you're interested in?
"I'm still trying to explore all my options, but right now I've been leaning more towards pediatrics or labor and delivery."

How did you first find out about Roberts?
"Running and doing sports in college really wasn't really wasn't my first choice when I was in high school. … My priorities just were very out of whack when I was looking for a college. One day my athletic director one day handed me a letter from Roberts, and it said do you want a college with a dry campus? I was just doing a lot of thinking and I was like, 'Yeah, that's what I want.'  It asked, 'Do you want a Christ-centered college? And I was doing a lot of self-reflection and I again was like, 'Yeah, that's really what I do want.' Then it ended up saying, 'We're willing to offer you some sort of scholarship and we're willing to offer you an opportunity to run at the Division II level and compete in a bunch of different championship races and things like that. I started thinking that this really is a cool opportunity and seems like a good fit. So, I came on my visit and I learned that our Nursing program is pretty good and well-known in the area and has lots of opportunities to network and go to a bunch of different hospitals. Everything seemed to be lining up and God continued to open doors. My family has a lake house about an hour away on Lake Ontario, so I was familiar with the Rochester area and all of the different beautiful places around here, so it just ended up working out."

Have you had a favorite course or professor since you've been at Roberts?
"I've been loving all of our Nursing courses. Right now, I guess my favorite one has been our Psychosocial Health, just learning about a bunch of different mental health diseases and just understanding how illness and isn't just physical, it can also be mental, spiritual and all different things. So, that's been a really cool class. I also loved our Anatomy and Physiology class and just learning about the body. I just think it's really cool to learn more about what God created. I also just love all of the professors in the Nursing department. They've been very supportive and very helpful when you have any questions or want to learn more about any sort of topic."

What does being a Redhawk mean to you?
"It means being part of a family of athletes and a family of students that are able to be examples for Christ, whether it's in our athletics our academics or wherever we go in our future. So, just working towards that common goal of being a light for others having a sense of community that you don't get anywhere else."