After she earned her first medals at the Mexican national championships, she trained at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, alongside twice-Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis.

She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Championships in Santiago after losing 10–15 in the semifinals to USA's Dagmara Wozniak.

She overcame these circumstances and in 2017, she also won the Panamerican Individual Championship for the first time ever for a Mexican Sabre Fencer.

In 2019, she announced she would compete under the flag of Uzbekistan at the 2019 Fencing World Cup, citing corruption of the Mexican Olympic Committee as the main reason for this decision.

[2] In April 2020, a tribunal forced the Sports Commission (CONADE) to compensate Paola with 15 million pesos (US$750,000), for the damages caused to her career.