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Jersey Number 12
Paulina Hersler
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Igelstavikens Gymnasium
- Hometown:
- Malmo, Sweden
Major: Management (Graduate Studies) - August 2018
OF NOTE:
JUST FOR FUN:
SENIOR YEAR (2017-18)
At UCLA (2013-17)
HIGH SCHOOL:
OF NOTE:
- First Gator from the country of Sweden
- Fields extensive international experience playing with her native country’s national team (U24, U20, U18, U16)
- Missed first two weeks of 2017 fall semester competing at the 2017 World University Games (Taipei, Taiwan) - started all six games and finished as Sweden’s second-leading scorer with 9.7 points per game
- Her father Bengt Hersler played basketball for 12 years in Sweden
- Took courses and trained on campus beginning with the Summer B session (began June of 2017)
JUST FOR FUN:
- Played the piano for seven years
- Enjoys traveling, fashion, modeling, going to the beach and hanging out with friends
- Fluent in English and Swedish and can speak Spanish
SENIOR YEAR (2017-18)
- Third among 2017-18 Gators in both points (11.8) and rebounds (6.8) per game
- Four-point-play vs. Ohio State
- Career-high 19 pts versus St. Joseph’s (Dec. 21) & Kentucky (Jan. 11)
- 100th career game vs. Richmond (11/21/17)
- During Feb. 11 game at South Carolina – the 25th of the year – reached 163 rebounds as a Gator, which equaled the amount she collected in 97-game career total at UCLA
- Logged first double-double of career vs. Arkansas State (Nov. 14), 12 pts, career-high 11 rebounds
- First graduate transfer in program history
- Earned a spot on Southeastern Conference First-Year Academic Honor Roll
At UCLA (2013-17)
- Received bachelor’s degree from UCLA in Communications in June of 2017
- Compiled 240 points in 96 games during her three years with the Bruins
- Averaged 10.3 minutes per game, including 14.1 during her final season
- Reset or tied her career-best marks in every statistical category during her final year at UCLA
- Started two games in 2016-17: at No. 12 Washington (Jan. 8, 2017) and at N.C. A&T (Dec. 20, 2016)
- Member of the 2015-16 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention team
- Redshirted freshman year (2013-14)
HIGH SCHOOL:
- Earned her high school diploma from Igelstavikens Gymnasium in June of 2013
- Played club basketball for Telge Basket (2010-13), which is the women´s team of Södertälje BBK, and is the leading basketball club in Sweden, winning 11 national championships
- Played on two Swedish National Championship teams (2011 and 2012)
- Rookie of the Year in the highest Swedish league, Damligan
- A dominant force on the Swedish National Teams, playing for the Under 16 and Under 18 Teams for the last four years
- In 2009 and 2010, she represented Sweden in the U16 European Championship and most recently played on the Swedish National Team that placed 10th in the 2012 U18 European Championship
- Led entire U18 European Championship field in scoring at 20.9 points per game, also ranking seventh in three-point field goal percentage (.412, 7-for-17), eighth in rebounding (7.9 rpg) and 10th in field goal percentage (.461, 59-for-128)
- Twice named to the All-Star Team and once named MVP in the Nordic Championships, while leading Sweden to the sU16 and U18 Nordic Championship titles
- Registered career-highs of 33 points and 14 rebounds in a win over Lithuania at the 2010 U16 European Championship
- At the 2012 U18 European Championship, her best outing was a 32-point, 11-rebound effort in a win over Poland
- Scored 20 or more points in five of the eight games of the 2012 U18 European Championship.
WBIT: Coach Gardner, McGill and Reynolds Press Conference 3-31-25
Monday, March 31
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Sunday, March 30
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Thursday, March 27
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