2021 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Sara Taubman
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Sir Francis Drake
- Hometown:
- Fairfax, Calif.
Career Highlights
Four-time WCGA Scholastic All-American
Three-time member of the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Scored 9.825 on uneven bars in her collegiate debut 1/23/21
Member of UCLA's Director's Honor Roll every quarter
2015 Region 1 beam and floor champion
Best Marks
UB - 9.825, 1/23/21
FX - 9.650, 2/14/21
2022
Received her fourth consecutive WCGA Scholastic All-America honor and third Pac-12 All-Academic selection … Made her season competitive debut on uneven bars at Arizona State on Feb. 20 … Performed three exhibition routines on bars and posted highs of 9.675 Feb. 12 and 9.650 Mar. 12 … Scored 9.525 on an exhibition floor performance Mar. 12.
2021
Made her collegiate debut in the season opener against Arizona State and, in one of the most memorable moments of the season, hit her routine in a pressure situation, sticking her double layout dismount and scoring 9.825 … Competed one other time on bars, scoring 9.725 at Arizona … Debuted on floor exercise at Washington and scored 9.65 … Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors for the third consecutive year … Selected to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll for the second time … Earned Director’s Honor Roll distinction each quarter.
2020
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors … Received Director’s Honor Roll distinction each quarter … Did not see action.
2019
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors … Named to the Director’s Honor Roll all three quarters … Did not see action.
Club
Three-time Level 10 regional qualifier … Earned a fourth-place finish on uneven bars at the 2018 Level 10 Regional Championships … Won beam and floor at the 2015 Regional Championships … Won the all-around, bars and floor at the 2015 Western Championships … Placed sixth in the all-around, fourth on bars and fifth on floor at the 2018 Level 10 State meet … Third on bars, fifth on beam and seventh in the all-around at the 2016 State Championships … Team captain at Head Over Heels.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is uneven bars … Member of the UCLA Student-Athlete Mentors Program since 2019 and has been co-president since 2021 … Describes her greatest athletic thrills as helping her team win the Norcal state team title in 2015 and winning the Level 9 Western Championships … The athletes she admires are Sadiqua Bynum, Serena Williams and Shannon Miller … Chose UCLA for its superior academics and athletics … Hobbies include cooking, knitting, playing card games, hiking and surfing … Full name is Sara Adina Taubman … Parents: Romy and Perry Taubman … Has an older sister, Rachel, and a younger sister, Sophie … Both her grandparents and parents met at UCLA … Born in Tokyo, Japan ... Human Biology and Society major who has aspirations of becoming an orthopedic surgeon.
