Tuesday, March 11
Los Angeles, CA
7:00 PM (PT)
UCLA
vs
San Diego
Sophomore pitcher Kaitlyn Terry
Photo by: Mona Gorashi
No. 6 Softball Hosts San Diego Tuesday Night
March 10, 2025 | Softball
LOS ANGELES โ The No. 6-ranked UCLA softball team hosts San Diego at Easton Stadium Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. (PT) in one last tune-up before Big Ten Conference play. The game is available for live streaming on BigTenPlus.com. Tickets are still available for tomorrow's game as well as UCLA's upcoming Big Ten series opener versus Purdue later this week from March 14-16.
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Two-time NCAA Champion Janice Parks' jersey retirement, originally scheduled for Tuesday, will now take place before Friday's first pitch against Purdue at approximately 5:45 p.m. Parks, the winner of the 1989 Honda Sport Award, will be the seventh player in UCLA history to have their jersey retired.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venues: Easton Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.
First Pitch: 7:02 p.m. (PT)
Watch: Big Ten Plus (B1G+)
Talent: Jonah Malkin (pbp), Sharlize Palacios (analyst)
Series History: UCLA leads San Diego in the all-time series, 15-0
Live Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com
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UCLA'S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)
Single-game tickets for all 21 of UCLA's home games are on sale. Fans can secure tickets to each of the Bruins' home conference games in UCLA's inaugural year in the Big Ten.
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Complete ticket information about UCLA softball is available here. Direct links to single-game ticket purchases can be viewed here. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or emailย tickets@athletics.ucla.eduย for more information.
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KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA
โข The Bruins went 5-0 last week, outscoring their opponents 51-6 (+45 run differential).
โข Junior Taylor Tinsley threw her second career no-hitter in a 5-0 win at San Diego State last Saturday. The performance marked the 124th total and 116th solo no-no in program history.
โข As a team, UCLA took a no-hitter or perfect game into the fifth inning or later three times last week, occurring against San Diego State and twice versus LMU.
โข UCLA is 7-3 against ranked competition this season. P Kaitlyn Terry has been the winning pitcher in six of those contests.
โข UCLA leads the nation with a .985 fielding percentage entering week six (11 errors, 710 total chances).
โข UCLA is averaging 1.63 homers per game (44 HR), which is on pace for the program's best mark since its 2010 NCAA title season (1.77).
โข UCLA has homered in 10 straight games for its longest streak since 2021 (12 games).
โข Entering week six, UCLA ranks in the top 10 in several offensive categories: 44 home runs (5th), 251 hits (5th), 46 doubles (7th) and 8.22 runs per game (10th),
โข Four UCLA players are hitting above .400 this season: OF Rylee Slimp (.449), UTIL Savannah Pola (.443), OF Jessica Clements (.430) and INF Jordan Woolery (.407).
โข Woolery ranks third among NCAA DI players in home runs (12), runs batted in (43) and total bases (80).
โข Woolery recorded her third career multi-homer game in UCLA's last outing at LMU, pushing her season home run total to 12. Just 27 games into 2025, Woolery surpassed her previous season high in homers of 10 set during both her freshman and sophomore seasons.
โข Woolery (12 HR) and Grant (10 HR) rank third and 10th in the nation in home runs, respectively.
โข Grant homered in five straight games from March 1-8, tying B.B. Bates (2013) for the longest streak in program history.
โข Clements and Pola are tied for ninth in the country and first in the Big Ten with 32 runs scored.
โข Clements (40 H) and Pola (39 H) rank sixth and eighth in NCAA DI in base hits, respectively.
โข UCLA's pitching staff ranks top 3 nationally in strikeouts (210, 2nd) and K/BB ratio (5.25, 3rd).
โข Terry leads UCLA's pitching staff a 1.44 earned run average and 76 strikeouts.
โข Clements ranks eighth among active NCAA DI players with 225 career hits and ninth with a .414 career batting average.
โข Head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez penciled four freshmen into the Opening Day starting lineup for the program's most since 2004.
โข UCLA's freshman class has combined for a .358 batting average (92-for-257), with four players batting over .333.
โข All four of UCLA's losses have been by one run and decided in the sixth inning or later.
โข UCLA's two All-Pac-12 First Team pitchers from last season, sophomore Kaitlyn Terry and junior Taylor Tinsley, return in 2025.
โข The Bruins' batting lineup is anchored by two 2023 NFCA All-Americans, juniors Megan Grant and Jordan Woolery.
โข UCLA has won five of the last seven Pac-12 Freshman of the Year awards, two of which are on the 2025 roster: Terry and Woolery.
โข The Bruins added seven incoming players this season โ six freshmen and one graduate transfer student.
โข UCLA made its 32nd WCWS appearance and won its 18th conference regular season title in 2024.
โข UCLA has moved into the Big Ten Conference, along with former Pac-12 softball programs Oregon and Washington.
โข UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Kelly Inouye-Perez has guided the Bruins to an 840-213-1 record (.797) over 19 seasons as head coach.
โข Inouye-Perez has reached the WCWS 10 times and won two NCAA titles in 2010 and 2019 as head coach.
โข Entering 2025, Inouye-Perez ranks seventh all-time and second among active head coaches with a 79.6 winning percentage.
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WHO'S BACK?
UCLA returns 16 players from last season's squad. Top returning contributors include 2024 All-Pac-12 First Team honorees Megan Grant, Kaitlyn Terry, Taylor Tinsley and Jordan Woolery. Grant led all 2025 returners with a .335 batting average (56-for-167), 20 extra-base hits (11 doubles, eight homers) and 41 runs batted in last season while Woolery concluded the year with 10 home runs. Terry and Tinsley pitched 329.1 of UCLA's total 355.0 total innings in 2024. The two underclassmen steered UCLA back to the WCWS after a one-year absence with a dominant postseason performance in the circle. In eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts, allowed just one run in four different contests and totaled a 1.71 earned run average over 49.0 innings.
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WELCOME TO WESTWOOD
The Bruins boast the top-ranked freshman class in 2025, according to Softball America. The group of six freshmen is highlighted by 2024 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year Addisen Fisher from Bend, Ore. Fisher, the top-ranked player in her signing class by multiple outlets, finished her career with a 66-3 record, 861 strikeouts, 24 no-hitters, 11 perfect games and .092 opponent batting average. Infielder Kaniya Bragg led Pacifica High School to back-to-back CIF Southern Section Division 1 titles as a junior and senior and was honored as the 2024 CIF Player of the Year. Infielder Aleena Garcia was a two-time San Gabriel Valley Softball Player of the Year her last two seasons at Whittier Christian High School. Catcher Sofia Mujica completed her prep career at Granite Hills High School tied for the CIF home run record (60).
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Also joining UCLA is graduate transfer Jessica Clements from Cal Poly. Clements was named the Big West Player of the Year in 2024 after a third-place finish for NCAA batting average title with a .464 clip (71-for-153). She graduated from Cal Poly as the leading hitter in program history with a career .411 batting average and started all 135 games played, including 95 in center field.
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UCLA CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY
The Bruins are celebrating their 50th anniversary as an organized collegiate softball program in 2025. UCLA's first season was in 1975 under the umbrella of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). The sport was adopted by the NCAA seven years later in 1982. No program has won more national championships (13) or made more Women's College World Series (WCWS) appearances (32) than UCLA.
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In fact, UCLA is the only program in softball history to have won a national championship in all five full decades of the sport's existence. The Bruins won the first NCAA Softball Championship in 1982 and were the first program to repeat titles (1984-85) and three-peat (1988-90). The Bruins boast 132 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America honors, four Honda Cup awards and 12 Honda Sport Awards โ all three good for the most in NCAA softball.
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RETIRING JANICE PARKS' No. 14
UCLA softball will retire 1989 Honda Award winner and two-time NCAA Champion Janice Parks' No. 14 jersey on Friday, March 14 prior to first pitch versus Purdue. Parks' No. 14 will be just the seventh number retired in the program's rich history, joining Dot Richardson (No. 1), Gina Vecchione (No. 2), Sue Enquist (No. 6), Lisa Longaker (No. 9), Lisa Fernandez (No. 16) and Debbie Doom (No. 17). Parks, one of the most talented corner infielders in UCLA history, was a three-time NFCA First Team All-American and All-WCWS Team selection in her four years at UCLA from 1986-89. Parks, who led UCLA in runs batted in during both of its 1988 and 1989 NCAA title seasons, became the 13th member of the UCLA softball program to be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015. She still owns the program record for career triples with 21. After graduating from UCLA, Parks represented Puerto Rico at the first-ever Olympic games sponsoring softball in Atlanta in 1996.
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WATCH THE BRUINS ON B1G+
Fans can catch all non-televised UCLA home games and road Big Ten Conference games on a new, high-quality streaming service, Big Ten Plus (B1G+). Annual passes ($89.99) and monthly passes ($12.99) are available for purchase here. Roughly 30 UCLA home and road games are viewable only on B1G+.
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Two-year UCLA letterwinner and All-American catcher Sharlize Palacios will serve as analyst for more than 10 of UCLA softball's home B1G+ live streams.
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Two-time NCAA Champion Janice Parks' jersey retirement, originally scheduled for Tuesday, will now take place before Friday's first pitch against Purdue at approximately 5:45 p.m. Parks, the winner of the 1989 Honda Sport Award, will be the seventh player in UCLA history to have their jersey retired.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venues: Easton Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.
First Pitch: 7:02 p.m. (PT)
Watch: Big Ten Plus (B1G+)
Talent: Jonah Malkin (pbp), Sharlize Palacios (analyst)
Series History: UCLA leads San Diego in the all-time series, 15-0
Live Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com
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UCLA'S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)
Single-game tickets for all 21 of UCLA's home games are on sale. Fans can secure tickets to each of the Bruins' home conference games in UCLA's inaugural year in the Big Ten.
ย
Complete ticket information about UCLA softball is available here. Direct links to single-game ticket purchases can be viewed here. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or emailย tickets@athletics.ucla.eduย for more information.
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KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA
โข The Bruins went 5-0 last week, outscoring their opponents 51-6 (+45 run differential).
โข Junior Taylor Tinsley threw her second career no-hitter in a 5-0 win at San Diego State last Saturday. The performance marked the 124th total and 116th solo no-no in program history.
โข As a team, UCLA took a no-hitter or perfect game into the fifth inning or later three times last week, occurring against San Diego State and twice versus LMU.
โข UCLA is 7-3 against ranked competition this season. P Kaitlyn Terry has been the winning pitcher in six of those contests.
โข UCLA leads the nation with a .985 fielding percentage entering week six (11 errors, 710 total chances).
โข UCLA is averaging 1.63 homers per game (44 HR), which is on pace for the program's best mark since its 2010 NCAA title season (1.77).
โข UCLA has homered in 10 straight games for its longest streak since 2021 (12 games).
โข Entering week six, UCLA ranks in the top 10 in several offensive categories: 44 home runs (5th), 251 hits (5th), 46 doubles (7th) and 8.22 runs per game (10th),
โข Four UCLA players are hitting above .400 this season: OF Rylee Slimp (.449), UTIL Savannah Pola (.443), OF Jessica Clements (.430) and INF Jordan Woolery (.407).
โข Woolery ranks third among NCAA DI players in home runs (12), runs batted in (43) and total bases (80).
โข Woolery recorded her third career multi-homer game in UCLA's last outing at LMU, pushing her season home run total to 12. Just 27 games into 2025, Woolery surpassed her previous season high in homers of 10 set during both her freshman and sophomore seasons.
โข Woolery (12 HR) and Grant (10 HR) rank third and 10th in the nation in home runs, respectively.
โข Grant homered in five straight games from March 1-8, tying B.B. Bates (2013) for the longest streak in program history.
โข Clements and Pola are tied for ninth in the country and first in the Big Ten with 32 runs scored.
โข Clements (40 H) and Pola (39 H) rank sixth and eighth in NCAA DI in base hits, respectively.
โข UCLA's pitching staff ranks top 3 nationally in strikeouts (210, 2nd) and K/BB ratio (5.25, 3rd).
โข Terry leads UCLA's pitching staff a 1.44 earned run average and 76 strikeouts.
โข Clements ranks eighth among active NCAA DI players with 225 career hits and ninth with a .414 career batting average.
โข Head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez penciled four freshmen into the Opening Day starting lineup for the program's most since 2004.
โข UCLA's freshman class has combined for a .358 batting average (92-for-257), with four players batting over .333.
โข All four of UCLA's losses have been by one run and decided in the sixth inning or later.
โข UCLA's two All-Pac-12 First Team pitchers from last season, sophomore Kaitlyn Terry and junior Taylor Tinsley, return in 2025.
โข The Bruins' batting lineup is anchored by two 2023 NFCA All-Americans, juniors Megan Grant and Jordan Woolery.
โข UCLA has won five of the last seven Pac-12 Freshman of the Year awards, two of which are on the 2025 roster: Terry and Woolery.
โข The Bruins added seven incoming players this season โ six freshmen and one graduate transfer student.
โข UCLA made its 32nd WCWS appearance and won its 18th conference regular season title in 2024.
โข UCLA has moved into the Big Ten Conference, along with former Pac-12 softball programs Oregon and Washington.
โข UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Kelly Inouye-Perez has guided the Bruins to an 840-213-1 record (.797) over 19 seasons as head coach.
โข Inouye-Perez has reached the WCWS 10 times and won two NCAA titles in 2010 and 2019 as head coach.
โข Entering 2025, Inouye-Perez ranks seventh all-time and second among active head coaches with a 79.6 winning percentage.
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WHO'S BACK?
UCLA returns 16 players from last season's squad. Top returning contributors include 2024 All-Pac-12 First Team honorees Megan Grant, Kaitlyn Terry, Taylor Tinsley and Jordan Woolery. Grant led all 2025 returners with a .335 batting average (56-for-167), 20 extra-base hits (11 doubles, eight homers) and 41 runs batted in last season while Woolery concluded the year with 10 home runs. Terry and Tinsley pitched 329.1 of UCLA's total 355.0 total innings in 2024. The two underclassmen steered UCLA back to the WCWS after a one-year absence with a dominant postseason performance in the circle. In eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts, allowed just one run in four different contests and totaled a 1.71 earned run average over 49.0 innings.
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WELCOME TO WESTWOOD
The Bruins boast the top-ranked freshman class in 2025, according to Softball America. The group of six freshmen is highlighted by 2024 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year Addisen Fisher from Bend, Ore. Fisher, the top-ranked player in her signing class by multiple outlets, finished her career with a 66-3 record, 861 strikeouts, 24 no-hitters, 11 perfect games and .092 opponent batting average. Infielder Kaniya Bragg led Pacifica High School to back-to-back CIF Southern Section Division 1 titles as a junior and senior and was honored as the 2024 CIF Player of the Year. Infielder Aleena Garcia was a two-time San Gabriel Valley Softball Player of the Year her last two seasons at Whittier Christian High School. Catcher Sofia Mujica completed her prep career at Granite Hills High School tied for the CIF home run record (60).
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Also joining UCLA is graduate transfer Jessica Clements from Cal Poly. Clements was named the Big West Player of the Year in 2024 after a third-place finish for NCAA batting average title with a .464 clip (71-for-153). She graduated from Cal Poly as the leading hitter in program history with a career .411 batting average and started all 135 games played, including 95 in center field.
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UCLA CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY
The Bruins are celebrating their 50th anniversary as an organized collegiate softball program in 2025. UCLA's first season was in 1975 under the umbrella of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). The sport was adopted by the NCAA seven years later in 1982. No program has won more national championships (13) or made more Women's College World Series (WCWS) appearances (32) than UCLA.
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In fact, UCLA is the only program in softball history to have won a national championship in all five full decades of the sport's existence. The Bruins won the first NCAA Softball Championship in 1982 and were the first program to repeat titles (1984-85) and three-peat (1988-90). The Bruins boast 132 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America honors, four Honda Cup awards and 12 Honda Sport Awards โ all three good for the most in NCAA softball.
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RETIRING JANICE PARKS' No. 14
UCLA softball will retire 1989 Honda Award winner and two-time NCAA Champion Janice Parks' No. 14 jersey on Friday, March 14 prior to first pitch versus Purdue. Parks' No. 14 will be just the seventh number retired in the program's rich history, joining Dot Richardson (No. 1), Gina Vecchione (No. 2), Sue Enquist (No. 6), Lisa Longaker (No. 9), Lisa Fernandez (No. 16) and Debbie Doom (No. 17). Parks, one of the most talented corner infielders in UCLA history, was a three-time NFCA First Team All-American and All-WCWS Team selection in her four years at UCLA from 1986-89. Parks, who led UCLA in runs batted in during both of its 1988 and 1989 NCAA title seasons, became the 13th member of the UCLA softball program to be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015. She still owns the program record for career triples with 21. After graduating from UCLA, Parks represented Puerto Rico at the first-ever Olympic games sponsoring softball in Atlanta in 1996.
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WATCH THE BRUINS ON B1G+
Fans can catch all non-televised UCLA home games and road Big Ten Conference games on a new, high-quality streaming service, Big Ten Plus (B1G+). Annual passes ($89.99) and monthly passes ($12.99) are available for purchase here. Roughly 30 UCLA home and road games are viewable only on B1G+.
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Two-year UCLA letterwinner and All-American catcher Sharlize Palacios will serve as analyst for more than 10 of UCLA softball's home B1G+ live streams.
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