Paige Sommerer was born in Kansas City. Growing up in the landlocked suburbs of Overland Park, Paige spent 10 years swimming competitively with Brookridge Country Club, The Kansas City Blazers, Captain of the Shawnee Mission South High School Varsity Team (Kansas State Swimming Championships Qualifier), KC Master’s Swimming and canoeing Missouri’s rivers with family. When she later landed at the University of Missouri, Paige established the Mizzou Swim Club in 2008 as the Social Chair. 

Paige received her Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Theatre and was recognized by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for playwriting. In college, she performed as the lead in the MU Department of Theatre’s academic season and summer repertory musicals and plays. She was crowned Miss Columbia, Missouri 2009 of the Miss America Organization. 

After graduation, Paige lived in New York City for a decade, performing Off Broadway (Spandex the Musical), at Tony Award Winning Theatres (Paper Mill Playhouse & Goodspeed Musicals) and on ABC (Time After Time). To supplement her entertainment career, Paige taught swimming at Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan while providing child care to prominent families on the Upper West Side. 

In 2021, Paige moved to Los Angeles and has lead films with Lifeboat Productions (Sis) starring Mo Collins and Ciara Bravo, premiering at the Oscar / BAFTA Qualifying 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival 2024 and Geena Davis’s 10th Annual Bentonville Film Festival 2024 as well as UCLA’s Film Department (Generally Educated Dora), premiering at the San Diego International Children’s Museum as part of Comic Con. During the school year, she is an Acceleration Specialist Educator at Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter School teaching English Language Arts grades K-6th.

Currently, Paige lives in Hollywood. When she is not swimming or singing, she enjoys hiking to Audible, exploring LA’s finest bakeries and delis, seeing live performance and writing screenplays at sunrise!

Up next, she is developing a foundation to give lower-income families opportunities to learn how to swim.