ABBY PAULSON

Junior • 5'3"

Anoka, Minn.
Anoka HS
Twin City Twisters

Career Highlights

• Two-time Regular Season All-American (beam)
• Two-time All-Pac-12 Conference
• 2021 Pac-12 Beam Co-Champion
• 9 career wins (eight on beam)
• Has hit 62-64 career routines
• Pac-12 All-Academic

2021 Season (Sophomore)

• First-team regular season All-American (beam)
• First-team All-Pac-12 Conference (beam)
• Pac-12 Beam Co-Champion
• Starter on bars, beam and floor in every meet
• Regional balance beam runner up
• Pac-12 Specialist of the Week on Feb. 2 after posting season highs on all three events
• Scored a 9.90 or better on beam in 10-of-14 competitions, including six 9.95s
• Finished the regular season ranked sixth in the nation on beam
• Earned career high 9.8625 on bars at NCAA Championship finals
• Scored career best 9.925 on floor at Pac-12 Championships
• 4 event victories (all on beam)
• Hit 40-42 routines
• Utah’s Dahl Academic-Athletic award recipient
• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

2020 Season (Freshman)

• Second-team All-American (beam)
• First-team All-Pac-12 Conference (beam)
• Starter on beam and floor in all nine meets, bars in four meets
• Scored first 10.0 on beam by a Ute since 2008 against UCLA to win the meet
• Perfect 10 on beam pushed Utah to a new beam school-record performance (49.775)
• Hit the 9.90-mark on beam in seven-of-nine meets
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week on Mar. 4 after posting meet-winning 9.95 beam routine at Washington
• Season-best 9.90 on floor vs. Arizona State
• Posted 9.875s on floor against California and Stanford
• 5 event victories (four on beam)
• Hit 22-22 routines

Prior to Utah

• Member of the 2017 USA Senior National Team
• Five-year International Elite
• Qualified for the P&G National Championships and the U.S. Classic from 2013-17
• 6th on beam at the 2017 P&G National Championships
• 2nd all-around, 5th on floor at the 2017 U.S. Classic
• 3rd all-around at the 2016 American Classic
• 1st on floor and 3rd all-around at the 2017 City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy
• 2nd on floor, 7th all-around at the 2019 J.O. National Championships (Senior F)
• 1st all-around, 1st on beam, 2nd on bars, 2nd on floor at the 2019 Region 4 Championships
• 6th on bars, 8th on floor and 10th all-around at the 2015 P&G Championships (Junior division)
• 5th on bars at the 2015 U.S. Classic (Junior division)
• 5th on floor at the 2013 J.O. Level 10 National Championships.
• 3rd on floor, 5th on beam at the 2013 American Classic (Junior division)
• Trained at Twin City Twisters
• Graduated from Anoka High School with highest honors

Personal

• Daughter of Brandon and Shelly Paulson
• Father was a 1996 Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.
• Siblings Sydney and Eli
• Major is Kinesiology
• Full name is Abby Rose Paulson

Paulson's Career Highs
Bars	9.8625 at NCAA Championship final, Apr. 17, 2021
Beam	10.0 at UCLA, Feb. 23, 2020
Floor	9.925 at Pac-12 Championships, Mar. 20, 2021