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GYMNAST PROFILES
SARA
PAULINE
TAUBMAN
TRATZ
5-3 / Junior
Fairfax, Calif.
Sir Francis Drake HS
Head Over Heels
5-7 / Senior
Karlsruhe, Germany
Otto-Hahn Gymnasium
Kunstturn Region Karlsruhe
2021
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.
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors … Named to the Director’s Honor Roll all
three quarters … Did not see action.
Pac-12 Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year …First-team CoSIDA Academic AllDistrict selection … Pac-12 Floor Exercise co-champion … Earned WCGA Scholastic
All-America honors for the fourth consecutive year … Selected to the Pac-12 Academic
Honor Roll … Hit all 23 routines she competed, averaging 9.87 on floor and 9.827
on vault … Competed in all 11 meets on vault and recorded a high of 9.9 at the Pac12 Championships, where she also captured a share of the floor exercise title with a
career-high-tying 9.95 … Earned three Top 3 finishes on vault and five on floor …
Recorded wins on floor exercise in the last three regular season meets - at Cal with a
9.95, vs. San Jose State with a 9.925, and at the Pac-12 Championships with a 9.95
… Competed twice on uneven bars, while the Bruins were short-handed on the event,
averaging 9.713 with a high of 9.775 at Arizona … Performed an exhibition routine
on balance beam for the first-time ever as a Bruin on Senior Day and hit her routine
… Winner of UCLA’s Athletic Director’s Academic Excellence Award, given to studentathletes who have made the Director’s Honor Roll every quarter at UCLA.
Club
2020
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.
Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-American for the thirdstraight year … Selected to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll … Competed in eight
meets, four times each on vault and floor … Scored a season-high 9.925 on floor
against Boise State … Tied for second on vault at Arizona State with a season-high
9.85 … Tied for third on vault at Stanford with a 9.825 on her first vault attempt of
the season …Stuck her vault vs. Utah and scored 9.775 … Named to the Director’s
Honor Roll all three quarters.
2020
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors … Selected to the Pac-12 Academic Honor
Roll … Received Director’s Honor Roll distinction each quarter … Did not see action.
2019
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.
2019
Best Marks
2018
UB - 9.825, 1/23/21
FX - 9.650, 2/14/21
WCGA Scholastic All-American … Second-team All-Pac-12 on floor … NCAA Columbus
Regional vault co-champion … Tied her career-high on vault with a 9.925 vs. San Jose
State … Tied her career-high on floor with a 9.925 to place third at both Stanford and
at the Masters Classic … Scored a career-high 9.925 on vault vs. Utah … Earned a
career-high 9.9 on vault at Cal to tie for third place … Scored a career-high 9.925
on floor vs. Oklahoma … Third on floor at Metroplex with a 9.875 … Won floor with
a 9.9 at Arizona … Recorded career-highs on vault (9.875) and floor (9.9) at Elevate
the Stage … Won vault in her collegiate debut, scoring 9.85 vs. Ohio State … Earned
Director’s Honor Roll distinction each quarter.
WCGA Scholastic All-American … Earned second-team Pac-12 All-Academic honors
… Competed on vault in every meet and on floor 14 times … Averaged 9.834 on
vault and posted a high of 9.9 at the NCAA Regional Final to tie for first and against
Stanford on Mar. 10 to tie for second … Placed third against Arizona with a 9.875 and
third against Utah State with a 9.825 … Averaged 9.864 on floor, with four scores of
9.9 or higher, including a new career-high of 9.95 vs. Utah State and at the Pac-12
Championships … Tied for second on floor at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional … Second
on floor at the Collegiate Challenge with a 9.925 and third on vault with a 9.85 …
Received Director’s Honor Roll distinction each quarter.
Club
Two-time German National vault champion (2017 and 2016) … Bronze medalist on
floor at the 2016 German National Championship … Won silver on vault and bronze
on floor exercise at the 2015 German National Championships … Helped Germany
qualify for the 2016 Olympic games with a second-place team finish at the Olympic
Test Event and was selected as an Olympic alternate … Competed for Germany at the
2015 World Championships … All-around finalist at the 2015 European Championships
… Placed fifth on floor and 13th in the all-around at the 2017 World University Games
… Trained at Kunstturn Region Karlsruhe.
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