Sarah Paulson Season 2021

Career Highlights

• Pac-12 Champion (2022)
• College Cup appearance (2023)
• Three-time Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll (2021-23)

As a Redshirt Junior (2023)

• Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in five matches while logging 96:48 minutes
• Logged 40 minutes in a 4-0 victory over San Francisco (Aug. 24)
• Played 16 minutes and contributed a shot in a 4-0 win vs. California (Nov. 3)

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2022) • Pac-12 Champions

• Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in eight matches, logging 188:32 minutes
• Compiled two shots, including one against UC Santa Barbara (Aug. 28) and vs. San Jose State (Nov. 11)
• Played 30+ minutes in three of her eight matches played

As a Sophomore (2021)

• Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Did not appear in a match due to injury

As a Freshman (2020-21)

• Saw action in 11 matches with eight starts in the midfield, totaling 735:22 minutes on the season
• Scored a pair of goals to finish her debut campaign with four points
• One of four players to have a multi-goal season for the Cardinal
• Missed the final two matches after suffering an injury coming off the bench against USC (April 9)
• Scored her first career goal off a free kick in the 5-0 win over Utah (March 5)
• Opened the scoring in a 2-1 win over Colorado with a goal in the 4’ (March 7)
• Played more than 50 minutes in nine matches, highlighted by playing every minute against Oregon State (Feb. 28), Colorado, Oregon (March 28) and Arizona State (April 4)

Prior to Stanford

• Prepped at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif.
• Played two years of high school soccer
• CCS Division I champion (2018)
• Scholar-Athlete Award (2017-18)
• Represented MVLA at the club level (2016-20)
• Team captain (2018-19)
• ECNL Northwest Conference champion (2017)
• ECNL National Playoff participant (2015-18)

Personal

• Born in Mountain View, Calif.
• Daughter of Jen and Greg Paulson
• Twin sister, Catherine, also plays soccer at Stanford
• Also has an older brother, Luke, and a younger sister, Grace
• Father, Greg, played basketball at Santa Clara and Cal Poly
• Grandfather, Eric Paulson, played basketball at Santa Clara and is a member of the Santa Clara Athletics Hall of Fame
• Grandfather, John Komo, played baseball at Santa Clara
• Great Grandfather, Lou Farasyn, played football at Santa Clara
• Member of the National Honors Society
• Gave a TED Talk about unique identities in February, 2020 with twin sister, Catherine
• Attended Tara Vanderveer Basketball Camp from ages 7-13