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Brady Crowned as Pac-12 Batting Champion with .456 Average
May 07, 2023 | Softball
LOS ANGELES โ Redshirt junior utility Maya Brady on the No. 2 UCLA softball team has won the 2023 Pac-12 batting title with a .456 batting average following the conclusion of all conference regular-season games Sunday afternoon.
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Thirty-one of Brady's 72 hits have gone for extra bases, including 16 home runs, three triples and 12 doubles. She boasts a .873 slugging percentage and 1.392 OPS.
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Brady is the 13th Bruin to be crowned as the Pac-12 Batting Champion and the first since Kelli Godin in 2019. UCLA players have combined to win the batting title a total of 16 times. Yvonne Gutierrez won the title twice in 1990 and 1991 and Stacey Nuveman won the title three times in 1999, 2001 and 2002.
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The Bruins' roster now touts four Pac-12 Batting Champions in Godin (2019), Aaliyah Jordan (2018) and Janelle Meoño (2021), who earned the honor at Arizona her freshman season.
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Brady, who was named a top 10 finalist for USA Softball Player of the Year on May 3, is also in the hunt for the Pac-12 Triple Crown, ranking second in both home runs (16) and runs batted in (56). The Pac-12 includes statistics from every game of the season, including postseason, in its criteria for the triple crown. There have been only three triple crown winners in conference history: Baylee Klingler (2022), Jenny Dalton (1995) and Stacey Nuveman (1999).
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Brady and the Bruins begin postseason play at the inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. on Thursday, May 11 at 4 p.m. (PT). No. 1 seed UCLA receives a first-round bye and will play the winner of the No. 8 seed and No. 9 seed game.
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Thirty-one of Brady's 72 hits have gone for extra bases, including 16 home runs, three triples and 12 doubles. She boasts a .873 slugging percentage and 1.392 OPS.
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Brady is the 13th Bruin to be crowned as the Pac-12 Batting Champion and the first since Kelli Godin in 2019. UCLA players have combined to win the batting title a total of 16 times. Yvonne Gutierrez won the title twice in 1990 and 1991 and Stacey Nuveman won the title three times in 1999, 2001 and 2002.
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The Bruins' roster now touts four Pac-12 Batting Champions in Godin (2019), Aaliyah Jordan (2018) and Janelle Meoño (2021), who earned the honor at Arizona her freshman season.
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Brady, who was named a top 10 finalist for USA Softball Player of the Year on May 3, is also in the hunt for the Pac-12 Triple Crown, ranking second in both home runs (16) and runs batted in (56). The Pac-12 includes statistics from every game of the season, including postseason, in its criteria for the triple crown. There have been only three triple crown winners in conference history: Baylee Klingler (2022), Jenny Dalton (1995) and Stacey Nuveman (1999).
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Brady and the Bruins begin postseason play at the inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. on Thursday, May 11 at 4 p.m. (PT). No. 1 seed UCLA receives a first-round bye and will play the winner of the No. 8 seed and No. 9 seed game.
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