Paulina Hersler - Women's Basketball

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Major: Management (Graduate Studies) - August 2018

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.

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