Three Bruins Named to USA Women's National Team

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CLEARWATER, Fla. - UCLA alum Ally Carda and current Bruins Paige Halstead and Delaney Spaulding have been named to the 2017 USA Softball Women's National Team (WNT), as announced by USA Softball on Friday. The trio are part of the 20-player roster following a four-day selection camp this week.

Carda, Halstead and Spaulding will represent the Red, White and Blue at the World Cup of Softball XII this July in Oklahoma City and at the Pan American Games/World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World Championship Qualifier. All three were members of the gold-medal winning squad at last July's WBSC Women's World Championship.

Carda, starting her second year as an assistant coach at Cal Poly, has three gold medals and two silvers to her credit in her two seasons with the WNT. At last year's Worlds, she won a pair of games in the circle, starting four times and posting 11 strikeouts in 12 2/3 innings with a 2.21 earned run average. Carda added two hits in 10 at-bats (.200) with an RBI. Earlier last July, Carda tossed a scoreless 6 1/3 innings, fanning 12, while going 1-for-3 (.333) with a homer and three RBI, helping the United States to a silver medal at the World Cup of Softball. In 2015, she was the Most Valuable Player at the Japan Cup, helping Team USA to a gold medal. Carda appeared in three of four games in the circle and posted a 0.00 ERA in 14 innings with eight strikeouts, nine hits and six walks allowed. She recorded a team-low 0.38 ERA in three tournaments, winning gold at the World Cup and silver at the Pan American Games.

Halstead, who is entering her sophomore campaign at UCLA in 2017, is also beginning her third season with Team USA and her second with the WNT. She did not appear in any games at the Women's Worlds, but went 4-for-6 (.667) with three runs batted in at last summer's World Cup of Softball. In 2015, Halstead, as a member of the Junior Women's National Team, won gold at the World Championship, playing in four games and going 4-for-8 (.500) with five RBI, four runs, a double, a stolen base and a walk. That same summer, she did not commit an error in 36 chances behind the plate at the World Cup.

Spaulding, a senior on this year's Bruin squad, will play her second straight summer with the USA WNT in 2017. At the 2016 WBSC Women's World Championship, she notched a pair of home runs and drove in nine, belting a grand slam against Austria and a solo shot versus Brazil. Spaulding was 6-for-22 (.273) overall. In last summer's World Cup, she was 9-for-17 (.529), homering in each of her first three games and totaling nine RBI.

UCLA will have six former, current and future players representing the United States this summer. Freshman Bubba Nickles, as well as 2018 freshmen Holly Azevedo and Briana Perez, are members of the USA Softball Junior Women's National Training Team, which was announced on Tuesday.

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