Paul Juda

Class:
Junior
Weight:
null
Hometown:
Deerfield, Ill.
High School:
Buffalo Grove

Meet Scores

USA Gymnastics Page

At Michigan
• NCAA Parallel Bars Champion (2025)
• NCAA Floor Exercise Champion (2024)
• NCAA All-Around Champion (2022)
• NCAA Vault Champion (2022)
• NCAA All-Around silver medalist (2025)
• Four-time NCAA All-American (2025)
• Three-time NCAA All-American (2024)
• Six-time 2022 NCAA All-American (2022)
• Two-time NCAA All-American (2021)
• Big Ten All-Around silver medalist (2025)
• Big Ten All-Around, High Bar Champion (2022)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Championships (2022)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year (2022)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year (2021)
• Nissen-Emery Award Winner (2023)
• College Gymnastics Association MVP (2022)
• All-Big Ten First Team (2025)
• All-Big Ten First Team (2022)
• All-Big Ten First Team (2021)
• All-Big Ten Second Team (2024)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2022)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2023)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2021)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team (2024)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team (2022)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team (2024)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team (2022)
• CGA All-American Scholar-Athlete, First Team (2022)
• CGA Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 14, 2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 11, 2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 22, 2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (March 8, 2022)

National/International
• Represented Team USA at the 2024 Olympics, helping to lead the team to a bronze medal for the first time since 2008 and finishing 14th in the all-around finals
• Took sixth in the all-around at the 2024 US Championships (167.150), highlighted by a fifth-place finish on floor exercise (28.450), sixth-place mark on pommel horse (27.900), and ninth-place finish on still rings (27.900)
• Won team bronze medal at 2023 World Championships, helping the USA take home the first team medal since 2014 and fourth-ever in USA Gymnastics history (Oct. 3)
• Took fifth on vault at 2023 FIG World Championships, scoring a 14.550 (14.600/14.500) and on high bar (14.100) on Oct. 8, 2023
• Placed sixth in the all-around (167.202) at US Championships (Aug. 26), winning floor exercise (23.900) and placing seventh on pommel horse (27.402) and fifth on high bar (27.300)
• Took third in the all-around at Core Classic (Aug. 6), scoring a 83.354 while taking third on both vault (15.102) and high bar (14.000)
• Won a pair of silver medals on floor exercise and high bar at the 2022 FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo, Egypt (March 21, 2022)
• Took eighth in the all-around at the 2021 United States Olympic Trials (164.600)
• Came in sixth on two events, floor exercise (28.350) and parallel bars (28.200)
• Placed second at 2021 Pan-American Games in all-around (83.000)

Graduate (2025)
• Served has captain for the third-straight year
• Competed in seven meets, two as all-around
• Won the NCAA Parallel Bars title (14.200)
• Finished second in the all-around at the Big Ten Team Finals (81.750) and NCAA Finals (82.164)
• Clinched the NCAA Team Title as the final vaulter (13.966) in the rotation
• Won the still rings title twice
• Saw a season-high still rings score of 14.250 at Oklahoma (Feb. 15), the sixth-highest score in the nation
• Saw a season-high high bar score of 14.300 against Ohio State (March 15), the fourth-highest score in the nation

Graduate (2024)
• Served his second year as team captain, alongside senior co-captain Javier Alfonso
• Competed in four meets for the Wolverines, joining the floor exercise, pommel horse, and vault lineups each time while also competing on still rings (three), high bar (three), parallel bars (two), and in the all around (two)
• Took the individual title on vault with a score of 15.00 against Army (Jan. 20)
• Won event titles on vault (14.80) and in the all-around (82.80) at Illinois (Feb. 3)
• Named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week twice (Jan. 22, Feb. 11)
• Took six individual event titles against Nebraska (Feb. 10), winning every event except the still rings and setting new career highs on vault (15.10) and the high bar (14.60)
• Named CGA Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 14)
• Notched a new personal best result on pommel horse against Oklahoma (March 2) with a score of 14.75 on the apparatus
• Academic All-Big Ten honoree

Senior (2023)
• Named the 2023 CGA Nissen-Emery Award recipient
• Earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors
• Did not compete due to injury

Junior (2022)
• Won a pair of titles at NCAA Finals (April 16), taking home wins in the all-around (85.298) and on vault (15.000)
• Captured six All-America honors as well. scoring a 14.333 on floor exercise, 14.000 on still rings, 14.366 on parallel bars, and 14.566 on high bar, tying Sam Mikulak's modern-era school record of six All-America honors
• All-around title was first since the 2014 season (Sam Mikulak) and first title overall since Anthony McCallum in 2019 (vault). The all-around win is the sixth in team history, while the vault title is the sixth
• Won all-around at Big Ten's with a score of 85.350 (April 1)
• Took high bar with at Big Ten individual finals (April 2) with a 14.500
• Won the sole U-M individual event title against Ohio State, with a 14.50 on high bar
• Scored 14-plus on 28 routines on the year
• Took home individual event titles on every event at Army and William & Mary, with a 14.05 on floor, pommel horse, and rings, a 14.80 on vault and parallel bars, and a 14.35 on high bar for a total of 86.10 in the all around
• Won event titles on vault (13.95), high bar (14.45), and in the all around (85.00) against Illinois
• Named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week on March 8th and March 14th

Sophomore (2021)
• Two-time NCAA All-American after placing sixth in the all-around (81.498) and second on pommel horse (13.800) at NCAA's
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year
• CGA Regular-Season All-American on all seven events
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (March 23)
• CGA National Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 24)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 23)
• CGA National Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 19)
• Totaled 18 event wins on the season
• Earned 23 scores of 14-plus on the campaign
• Led NCAA with a 14.950 on parallel bars during the regular-season vs Penn State (March 20)
• Scored a season-best 86.55 in the All-Around against UIC (Jan. 17)
• Won five events in U-M's win over UIC

Freshman (2020)
• Named CGA Regular Season All-American after leading the national on high bar (14.083)
• Marked a 15.000 on high bar for his season high, the third-highest score in the NCAA
• Ranked No. 6 in the all-around (79.750)
• Earned eight event titles on season
• Named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week, Big Ten Freshman of the Week (twice), as well as CGA Gymnast and Freshman of the Week (once)
• Placed 16th on pommel horse (25.100), 12th on still rings (26.750), 16th on vault (28.100), 14th on parallel bars (26.250), and third on high bar (26.900) at the USA Championships

Prep
• Placed fifth on floor exercise and sixth on high bar at USA Gymnastics Qualifier (2019)
• Took second on still rings, fifth on pommel horse, and eighth on floor exercise at the 2018 USA Gymnastics Championships
• Won floor exercise and placed second on still rings and parallel bars at the 2018 Winter Cup Challenge (junior division)
• Earned a second-place finish in the all-around and on still rings and parallel bars at the 2017 P&G Championships in the junior division
• Won all-around competition at the 2017 JO National meet
• Captured all-around title at the 2016 JO National meet in addition to a pair of second-place finishes on parallel bars and high bar
• Club captain

Personal
• Paul Wojciech Juda
• Adlai E. Stevenson High School (2019), Lincolnshire, Ill.
• Born July 7, 2001, in Des Plaines, Ill.
• Son of Ewa Bacher and Jozef Juda
• Studying Real Estate Development in the Rackham Graduate School; earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in May 2023