New Mexico State University Athletics

Coach Judge enters her 10^th season on Coach Pratt’s staff and has been an integral part of the Aggies successes on and off deck for NM State.  Coach Judge spent 8 years as a full time assistant coach then Associate Head coach until the end of the 2021 season.  After making a career change and stepping back to work in the tech industry, coach Judge remains on staff as a volunteer coach where she continues to make a strong impact on the program.
 
Judge returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in June 2013. She was a four-year member of the Aggie team from 2006-10. Before returning to Las Cruces she coached at Notre Dame Prep and taught at Desert Canyon Middle School in Scottsdale, Ariz., for two years, from 2011-13. She taught at Mountainside Middle School in spring 2011, following a teaching stint in Belize in 2010.
 
As an Aggie student-athlete, Judge competed in the distance freestyle and butterfly events for the Crimson and White. She earned a bachelor’s degree from NM State in elementary education in 2010. She received the team's Linda Schroeder Academic Award in 2010, served at the SAAC President in 2009 and 2010, and was the 2010 Community Service Student-Athlete of the Year.
 
Judge graduated from Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2006. A four-year letter winner and team captain, she directed the Wolves to a pair of state championships, two district titles and a regional championship. In 2005, Judge and the Wolves won the 5A Division II State Championship while also taking home the Scottsdale District title. A year earlier, Desert Mountain won the 5A Public School State Championship and the Scottsdale District crown.
 
Judge was born in Mineola, N.Y.