INF Soo-Jin Berry (left) and RHP Brynne Nally
UCLA Softball Signs Soo-Jin Berry and Brynne Nally
July 21, 2025 | Softball
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA softball program has signed transfer students Soo-Jin Berry and Brynne Nally, as announced Monday by Kelly Inouye-Perez, The Shelly Carlin UCLA Head Softball Coach.
Both student-athletes will join the Bruins' program for the 2026 season. Berry, a left-handed hitting infielder from the University of Iowa, has two remaining seasons of eligibility and will be listed as a junior on next year's roster. Nally, a right-handed pitcher from Long Beach State University, finished her freshman campaign ranked second on the team in innings pitched last season.
Berry started all 88 games of her Iowa career, posting a .330 batting average (91-for-276), .395 on-base percentage and .533 slugging percentage. She has led the Hawkeyes in RBIs in each of the last two seasons with 33 as a sophomore in 2025 and 26 as a freshman in 2024. Berry totaled 10 home runs, 18 doubles, four triples, 59 runs batted in and 54 runs scored over her two seasons at Iowa.
Berry was named to the NFCA All-Midwest Region Second Team last season after leading Iowa in home runs (9), slugging percentage (.589), RBIs (33) and doubles (11). She finished her sophomore campaign with a .335 batting average (53-for-158) and helped Iowa to a sixth-place finish in the Big Ten Conference standings with a 35-18 record, including a 15-7 mark in conference play. Berry's top performance as a Hawkeye came against UCLA last season on March 23 when she recorded the first two-homer game of her career to lead Iowa to a 7-4 upset victory over the Bruins.
Berry, a native of Pittsburgh, Calif. in the Bay Area, prepped at Clayton Valley Charter High School with two-time All-American Jordan Woolery.
Nally finished her debut season at Long Beach State with a 6-6 record, 3.22 ERA and 1.47 WHIP over 74.0 innings in 12 starts and nine relief appearances. She struck out 49 batters while limiting opponents to a .245 batting average. Nally notched the first complete-game victory of her career against Utah on Feb. 21 at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, giving up just one run on five hits and three walks.
Nally also starred in a high-leverage relief situation in the first week of the season against then-No. 2 Oklahoma. In a 0-0 ballgame, Nally struck out four Sooners, including Kasidi Pickering and Nelly McEnroe-Marinas, and worked around six baserunners over 2.2 scoreless innings.
Nally prepped at Pacifica High School in her hometown of Garden Grove, Calif. with Bruins' teammate Kaniya Bragg for four years. Nally helped Pacifica win back-to-back CIF Southern Section Division I titles as the ace on the squad in 2023 and 2024. She was named the 2023 CIF-SS Division I Player of the Year her junior season after posting a 15-7 record with a 1.87 ERA and 172 strikeouts over 142.1 innings pitched. Nally capped her Pacifica career with another CIF-SS Division I title after registering a dominant 22-2 record, 0.99 ERA and 136 strikeouts over 127.0 innings pitched.
Nally was named All-CIF in her last three seasons at Pacifica and was honored as the Empire League Pitcher of the Year for all four years of her high school career.
Both student-athletes will join the Bruins' program for the 2026 season. Berry, a left-handed hitting infielder from the University of Iowa, has two remaining seasons of eligibility and will be listed as a junior on next year's roster. Nally, a right-handed pitcher from Long Beach State University, finished her freshman campaign ranked second on the team in innings pitched last season.
Berry started all 88 games of her Iowa career, posting a .330 batting average (91-for-276), .395 on-base percentage and .533 slugging percentage. She has led the Hawkeyes in RBIs in each of the last two seasons with 33 as a sophomore in 2025 and 26 as a freshman in 2024. Berry totaled 10 home runs, 18 doubles, four triples, 59 runs batted in and 54 runs scored over her two seasons at Iowa.
Berry was named to the NFCA All-Midwest Region Second Team last season after leading Iowa in home runs (9), slugging percentage (.589), RBIs (33) and doubles (11). She finished her sophomore campaign with a .335 batting average (53-for-158) and helped Iowa to a sixth-place finish in the Big Ten Conference standings with a 35-18 record, including a 15-7 mark in conference play. Berry's top performance as a Hawkeye came against UCLA last season on March 23 when she recorded the first two-homer game of her career to lead Iowa to a 7-4 upset victory over the Bruins.
Berry, a native of Pittsburgh, Calif. in the Bay Area, prepped at Clayton Valley Charter High School with two-time All-American Jordan Woolery.
Nally finished her debut season at Long Beach State with a 6-6 record, 3.22 ERA and 1.47 WHIP over 74.0 innings in 12 starts and nine relief appearances. She struck out 49 batters while limiting opponents to a .245 batting average. Nally notched the first complete-game victory of her career against Utah on Feb. 21 at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, giving up just one run on five hits and three walks.
Nally also starred in a high-leverage relief situation in the first week of the season against then-No. 2 Oklahoma. In a 0-0 ballgame, Nally struck out four Sooners, including Kasidi Pickering and Nelly McEnroe-Marinas, and worked around six baserunners over 2.2 scoreless innings.
Nally prepped at Pacifica High School in her hometown of Garden Grove, Calif. with Bruins' teammate Kaniya Bragg for four years. Nally helped Pacifica win back-to-back CIF Southern Section Division I titles as the ace on the squad in 2023 and 2024. She was named the 2023 CIF-SS Division I Player of the Year her junior season after posting a 15-7 record with a 1.87 ERA and 172 strikeouts over 142.1 innings pitched. Nally capped her Pacifica career with another CIF-SS Division I title after registering a dominant 22-2 record, 0.99 ERA and 136 strikeouts over 127.0 innings pitched.
Nally was named All-CIF in her last three seasons at Pacifica and was honored as the Empire League Pitcher of the Year for all four years of her high school career.
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