Marissa Paffas

Marissa Paffas serves as the Senior Athletic Academic Advisor for Villanova's Office of Academic Support. Paffas functions as the primary academic contact for men's basketball and water polo.

As a graduate student at VU, Paffas began tutoring student-athletes from various sports and kept tutoring after graduation while working at the Pennsylvania Veterans Museum.

In 2012, Paffas returned to her alma mater and became the academic support intern for men's basketball before transitioning into a coordinator role in 2014 and eventually an athletic academic advisor in 2017.

Paffas earned a Bachelor's degree in history from Villanova and has also completed two Master's degrees on the Main Line, receiving her first in History and another in Education.