Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Paris grew up recreationally swimming for Dynamo Swim Club. She began her coaching career in Atlanta at her summer league pool as an assistant coach. She moved to the Northern Virginia area in 1993 attending boarding school. She attended George Mason University studying Business.
After serving as a developmental age group coach for a few years, in 2001 Paris co-founded Machine Aquatics, where she served as team manager and age group coach until 2009 when she stepped off the deck as a full time Machine coach to run the dry side team operations and be mom.
Since its inception in 2001, Machine Aquatics has grown into Machine Brands which encompasses four divisions. Machine Aquatics, a nationally ranked USA Swimming competitive team with seven training sites and 1100+ members, Machine Swim School, a large swim school providing 800+ lessons weekly, Machine Performance Center, a 24,000 sq. ft. performance center for swim, fitness, KICKR bike studio, physical therapy.
Paris serves as CEO of Machine Brands overseeing the business operation and development of all divisions. After a long volunteer career within USA Swimming and USA Swimming Foundation, Paris served as a business development consultant for The American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) from 2015-2017 and the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the American Swim Coaches Association from 2018-2020. Paris also served as Senior Management Advisor for the Inaugural Season of the International Swimming League in 2019 & 2020 where one of many her duties included overseeing the event operations all of the competitions in the United States.
Paris has two children Lillyan (19) who is a Sophomore at the University of South Carolina studying exercise science and neuroscience, and Daniel, III (18) who a Senior in High School.