2016-17 Women's Basketball Roster
Roster
Paulina Hersler
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Igelstavikens Gymnasium
- Hometown:
- Malmö, Sweden
2015-16:
Paulina Hersler played in 35 games ... scored her first points of the season (three) and added two rebounds and an assist in the win over Louisiana Tech (Nov. 27) … hit her first three of the season and added two rebounds, two assists and her first career block in the win over CSU Bakersfield (Dec. 5) … played 23 minutes of the blowout win over UC Irvine (Dec. 16) scoring one point and registering career highs in rebounds (5) and steals (2) … scored a career-high eight points and added three rebounds, two assists and one steal in the blowout win over Sacramento State (Dec. 18) … had six points, three rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal in the win at UC Riverside (Dec. 28) … was scoreless, but had two rebounds and two assists in a win over Oregon (Jan. 2) … had three points and two rebounds in a loss at USC (Jan. 10) … had seven points (her best in a Pac-12 game) and one rebound in the blowout win over California (Jan. 22) … had four points and two boards in a win at Utah (Jan. 31) … tallied seven points and a steal in a blowout win at Arizona (Feb. 7) … had career-highs of 12 points and seven rebounds in a blowout win over Arizona (Feb. 26) … had only eight turnovers in Pac-12 play (18 games, 170 minutes) … had eight points, three rebounds and tied her career-high of two steals in a Pac-12 Quarterfinal win over Arizona (Mar. 4) … had six points with a career-high two three-pointers in a Pac-12 Final loss to Oregon State (Mar. 6) … one of only five Bruins to play in all 35 games ... ranked 2nd on the team in three-point field goal percentage (.333, 9-for-27). HONORS: Was named Honorable Mention Pac-12 All-Academic. TEAM SWEDEN: Played in all six games for Team Sweden as the Swedes placed 10th at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea (July 12) … scored a tournament-high nine points and added two rebounds and one assist in 20 minutes off the bench in a win over China … averaged 6.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game as Sweden went 3-3 … had eight points, four rebounds and one steal in a pool loss to Russia.
2014-15:
Hersler played in 27 games … had two points and three rebounds in her first collegiate game at James Madison (Nov. 14) … followed with three points and two boards at No. 13 North Carolina (Nov. 16) … had a season-high- five points in a win over Sacramento State (Dec. 12) and tied it later in a win over Arizona (Feb. 22) and in a loss at Washington (Feb. 28) … made the first two free throws of her career in a loss to No. 4 Notre Dame (Dec. 28) … made her only shot, a three-pointer, in a loss to No. 13 Oregon State (Jan. 3) and had four points and two boards in a loss to Oregon (Jan. 5) … scored four points, all from the charity stripe, in a win over Utah (Feb. 8) … tied season-highs in points (five) and rebounds (three) in a WNIT semifinal win at Michigan (Apr. 1).
2013-14:
Redshirted the season.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Hersler attended high school at Igelstavikens Gymnasium and played club basketball for Telge Basket (2010-13) ... Telge Basket is the women´s team of Södertälje BBK, and has over the years reached a position as the leading basketball club in Sweden, winning 11 national championships ... prior to her stint with Telge, she played for the club team Malbas (2005-10) ... she has been part of two Swedish National Championship teams (2011 and 2012) and was named Rookie of the Year in the highest Swedish league known as Damligan ... has been 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 ... she not only led her team, but led the entire U18 European Championship field in scoring at 20.9 points per game ... for the 2012 Championship, she also ranked 7th in three-point field goal percentage (.412, 7-for-17), 8th in rebounding (7.9 rpg) and 10th in field goal percentage (.461, 59-for-128) ... has twice been named to the All-Star Team and once named MVP in the Nordic Championships while leading Sweden to the U16 and U18 Nordic Championship titles ... additionally, she was twice named to the All-Star teams in two Scandinavian tournaments ... she registered career-highs of 33 points and 14 rebounds in a win over Lithuania at the 2010 U16 European Championship ... last year 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.
PERSONAL:
Full name: Paulina Frida Lovisa Hersler ... right-handed ... born May 16, 1994 in Malmö, Sweden ... parents are Marina and Bengt Hersler ... has one older brother, Emil ... names Zlatan Ibrahimovic of the Paris Saint-Germain and Sweden's national soccer team as the athlete she most admires (Ibrahimovic was also born in Malmö and is from there) ... hobbies include playing the piano ... she is fluent in English, Swedish and speaks a little Spanish ... majoring in communication studies.
