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Paula is one of two high school juniors in the United States team. She has been a student at Pendleton School in Bradenton, Florida. At the start of 2004, she had already won 16 national-class junior tournaments, including 11 on the American Junior Golf Association circuit. Paula was named the AJGA Player of the Year for 2003. She has twice been a member of the USA Junior Solheim team and was America's female representative in the 2002 R&A Junior Open at Royal Musselburgh as a 15 year old, finishing joint sixth in the combined boys and girls' final totals for 54 holes.

Paula was a semi-finalist at both the 2003 US girls' and women's amateur championships. Her conqueror in the latter event was team-mate Jane Park whom she later partnered (they had 37 birdies and an eagle between them in four rounds) to a runaway victory for the United States in the women's section of The Spirit International better-ball event at Whispering Pines, Texas.

Paula qualified for the 2003 US Women's Open in which she missed the cut. She made the cut in two other LPGA events last year. Earlier this year, Paula tied for second place in the South Atlantic Ladies amateur tournament in Florida.

Daughter of a commercial airlines pilot, Paula is superstitious - she must play with pink tees (her normal golf bag is pink) and she has to mark her ball with a 1965 quarter coin.