Sage Maaranen, who has spent the past two years as the assistant coach for the Queens University women's triathlon team, was named the inaugural head coach of the La Salle women's triathlon program in July 2024.
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Maaranen is coming to La Salle after concluding yet another successful season at Queens University. Throughout the course of the 2023 season, Maaranen helped Queens to three first-place finishes in different meets, including winning the NCAA East Regionals en route to the program's second-place finish in the national championships.
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In 2022, the Royals finished in second place at the national championships in the program's first year of Division I competition.
A 2010 graduate of the University of Missouri, she has built an extensive amount of experience over the last decade. Prior to her time at Queens University, Maaranen was the head cycling coach at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. While at Westminster, she helped student-athletes qualify for the 2019 Mountain Bike National Championships.
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From 2015-2022, Maaranen served as the head swim coach at Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Salt Lake City. While there she helped drive participation in the program drastically, finishing her time at Judge with almost five times the number of students on the roster from when she began. Maaranen led the program to multiple championship title, and a coach of the year designation.
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Maaranen has been personal training in triathlon for nearly a decade. In 2015, she started her own LLC that helped develop her clients and allow them to compete in Ironman competitions.
