Career Accolades

  • Member of two NCAA championship teams (2018-19)
  • Member of three Pac-12 championship teams (2018-20)
  • Three-time All-American: 1-meter (2020), 3-meter (2020), Platform (2020)
  • 2020 Pac-12 Diver of the Year
  • Two-time Pac-12 champion on the platform: (2019, 256.30) and 2020 (311.40)
  • 2020 Diver of the Meet at Pac-12 Championships
  • Two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American (2019, 2020)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021)
  • 2019 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Junior (2019-20) Pac-12 Champions

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Competed at the NCAA Championships on the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform
  • Was third on the 3-meter at the Zone E Diving meet (606.35)
  • Reached the podium on the platform at the Pac-12 Championships (third- 285.10), also scoring on the 1-meter (ninth) and 3-meter (sixth)

As a Junior (2019-20) • Pac-12 Champions

  • Three-time All-American (1-meter, 3-meter, platform)
  • Pac-12 champion on the platform (311.40)
  • Also scored at Pac-12 Championships on the 1-meter (second) and 3-meter (eighth)

As a Sophomore (2018-19) NCAA ChampionsPac-12 Champions

  • CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
  • Qualified for NCAA Championships on 3-meter and platform
  • Pac-12 champion on the platform (256.30)
  • Finished 35th on platform (213.80) and 37th on the 3-meter (265.05) at the NCAA championships
  • Also scored on the 3-meter at Pac-12 Championships (8th, 243.80) and the 1-meter (13th, 239.10)

As a Freshman (2017-18) NCAA ChampionsPac-12 Champions

  • Scored in all three events at Pac-12 Championships, finishing 8th on 1-meter (268.45), 6th on 3-meter (313.10) and 6th on platform (256.15)

Prior to Stanford

  • Three-time High School All-American (2015-17)
  • 2017 Central Coast Section 1-meter diving champion
  • 2017 California state 1-meter diving champion and record holder
  • 2017 San Mateo Daily Journal Diver of the Year
  • Menlo-Atherton High School 1-meter diving record holder
  • Stanford Diving Club JOA team (2013-17)
  • JO Zone E four-time top-3 finisher
  • Two-time top-five and 8-time top-20 finisher at JO National Championships
  • AP Scholar with Honor
  • California Scholarship Federation life member
  • Principal's Distinction for academic achievement
  • Head coach, recreational diving program

Personal

  • Daughter of Amy and Walter Paulsen
  • Has a younger sister, Sybelle, and older sister, Talbott, who is a member of Yale's varsity diving team
  • Great-grandfather received first electrical engineering PhD at Stanford
  • Great-great grandmother was Stanford class of '00 (1900)
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