University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Jordan Woolery
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Woolery Earns Second Big Ten Player of the Week Award
February 23, 2026 | Softball
ROSEMONT, Ill. โ Senior infielder Jordan Woolery on the No. 9-ranked UCLA softball team earned her second Big Ten Player of the Week award of the season after helping the Bruins to a perfect 6-0 weekend at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.
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This marks Woolery's second career conference weekly honor after nabbing her first in Week 1 of the 2026 season. Woolery led the Bruins (13-3) over their six games with 17 RBIs and four home runs, including two grand slams. She also recorded a .444 batting average (8-for-18) and 1.222 slugging percentage with six extra-base hits.
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Woolery opened the weekend with her third three-hit game of the season against Auburn on Thursday. In that game, Woolery hit a grand slam in a historic 18-run third inning, which is tied for the second-most runs scored in a single inning in NCAA history. Incredibly, Woolery recorded a base hit in each of her three at-bats while logging eight total bases (HR, 2 2B) in that third inning. Her grand slam marked the 50th homer of her career.
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The next day, Woolery helped UCLA surmount a three-run deficit against Nevada with an RBI single up the middle in the fifth inning. Later in the evening, she hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the second inning against No. 20 Duke that put UCLA up for the remainder of that ballgame.
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On Saturday, Woolery reached base in all three of her plate appearances in game one against Fresno State. Her only hit was a home run while she was also walked and hit by a pitch. Later in the evening, she drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the seventh inning versus No. 13 South Carolina as part of UCLA's epic rally from down 4-0. Woolery's walk scored the second run in the five-run comeback, which also marked her 200th career RBI. UCLA went on to walk it off in last year's Super Regional rematch with its largest seventh-inning comeback since the 2016 season.
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UCLA faced an early 5-0 deficit on a getaway day versus Texas A&M. Woolery came through in the bottom of the second with a go-ahead grand slam - her second of the weekend and third of the season - to put UCLA up for the rest of the game.
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Next up, Woolery and UCLA play five games over three days at the Judi Garman Classic on the campus of Cal State Fullerton next week from Feb. 27-March 1. The Bruins open competition against East Texas A&M (12 p.m. PT) and Florida (2:30 p.m. PT) on Friday, Feb. 27 at Anderson Family Field.
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This marks Woolery's second career conference weekly honor after nabbing her first in Week 1 of the 2026 season. Woolery led the Bruins (13-3) over their six games with 17 RBIs and four home runs, including two grand slams. She also recorded a .444 batting average (8-for-18) and 1.222 slugging percentage with six extra-base hits.
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Woolery opened the weekend with her third three-hit game of the season against Auburn on Thursday. In that game, Woolery hit a grand slam in a historic 18-run third inning, which is tied for the second-most runs scored in a single inning in NCAA history. Incredibly, Woolery recorded a base hit in each of her three at-bats while logging eight total bases (HR, 2 2B) in that third inning. Her grand slam marked the 50th homer of her career.
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The next day, Woolery helped UCLA surmount a three-run deficit against Nevada with an RBI single up the middle in the fifth inning. Later in the evening, she hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the second inning against No. 20 Duke that put UCLA up for the remainder of that ballgame.
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On Saturday, Woolery reached base in all three of her plate appearances in game one against Fresno State. Her only hit was a home run while she was also walked and hit by a pitch. Later in the evening, she drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the seventh inning versus No. 13 South Carolina as part of UCLA's epic rally from down 4-0. Woolery's walk scored the second run in the five-run comeback, which also marked her 200th career RBI. UCLA went on to walk it off in last year's Super Regional rematch with its largest seventh-inning comeback since the 2016 season.
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UCLA faced an early 5-0 deficit on a getaway day versus Texas A&M. Woolery came through in the bottom of the second with a go-ahead grand slam - her second of the weekend and third of the season - to put UCLA up for the rest of the game.
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Next up, Woolery and UCLA play five games over three days at the Judi Garman Classic on the campus of Cal State Fullerton next week from Feb. 27-March 1. The Bruins open competition against East Texas A&M (12 p.m. PT) and Florida (2:30 p.m. PT) on Friday, Feb. 27 at Anderson Family Field.
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