LOS ANGELES – The No. 10 UCLA softball staff opens the month of April with 4 residence video games at Easton Stadium this week, starting Thursday, April 2 versus Hawai’i at 3 p.m. (PT). The Bruins (25-5, 10-2 Big Ten) will then host Indiana for a three-game collection from Friday, April 3 by way of Sunday, April 5. All three video games of the collection shall be streamed on BigTenPlus.com.
GAME INFORMATION Venue: Easton Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schedule (all occasions Pacific) Thursday, April 2 – UCLA vs. Hawai’i – 3 p.m.
Friday, April 3 – UCLA vs. Indiana – 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 4 – UCLA vs. Indiana – 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 5 – UCLA vs. Indiana – 12 p.m.
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KEY NOTES ON THE BRUINS •
Kelly Inouye-Perez turned the fifty fifth head coach in NCAA Division I historical past to win 900 video games at Rutgers on March 22.
• Inouye-Perez turned UCLA softball’s all-time winningest head coach earlier this season together with her 888th profession victory.
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Megan Grant (1.456) and
Jordan Woolery (1.228) rank first and second within the nation in slugging share, respectively.
• Grant (23) and Woolery (20) have every hit 20+ residence runs for a second consecutive season.
• Grant enters Week 9 because the NCAA chief in slugging % (1.456), on-base % (.696), OPS (2.152) and walks (40).
• Twenty-three of Grant’s 42 base hits this season (54.8%) have been residence runs. She ranks second within the nation in homers.
• Grant has reached base in 43 straight video games courting again to 2025 NCAA Regionals, good for the longest energetic streak within the nation.
• Grant enters Week 9 on a 19-game hitting streak, good for UCLA’s longest because the 2019 season (Aaliyah Jordan, 19 video games).
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Jordan Woolery is the NCAA chief in RBIs (71) and whole bases (124) and ranks third behind Grant in residence runs (20).
• Woolery has been named the Big Ten Player of the Week 3 times this season, most not too long ago on March 9.
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Rylee Slimp, UCLA’s leadoff hitter in all 34 video games, ranks second within the nation with 52 runs scored.
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Taylor Tinsley has pitched 101.0 of UCLA’s 196.1 whole innings this yr (51.4%). She ranks fifth within the nation with 16 wins.
• With 104 dingers, UCLA is 5 homers shy of breaking this system’s single-season document of 108 set in 2010.
• UCLA enters Week 9 ranked second within the nation in residence runs (104), slugging % (.819) and runs per recreation (11.03).
• UCLA has scored 198 of its 375 runs this yr by way of the longball (52.8%).
• UCLA has recorded 20 run-rule wins this season after setting this system document with 28 run-rule wins in 2025.
• UCLA performs its 52nd season of softball this spring, the twentieth with head coach
Kelly Inouye-Perez on the helm.
• UCLA made an NCAA-record thirty third Women’s College World Series look in 2025, and the eleventh below Inouye-Perez.
• UCLA’s All-America trio from final season returns with seniors
Megan Grant,
Taylor Tinsley and
Jordan Woolery.
• Grant, Tinsley and Woolery had been all named to the celebrated 2026 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List.
• Grant and Woolery led all duos within the nation in 2025 with 49 mixed residence runs and was second with 167 mixed RBIs.
• Tinsley is UCLA’s lone returning pitcher after main final yr’s workers with a 2.44 ERA, 0.95 WHIP and 6.63 Ok/BB ratio in 2025.
• UCLA’s roster consists of 10 returners and 11 newcomers, together with six true freshmen and 5 incoming transfers.
• The Bruins enter their second yr within the Big Ten after ending second with a 17-5 convention document of their debut season.
• Entering 2026, Inouye-Perez ranks seventh all-time and second amongst energetic head coaches with a .796 profitable share.
HOMER HAPPY BRUINS • UCLA has surpassed 100 residence runs for the second consecutive season below hitting coach
Lisa Fernandez. The Bruins have reached that milestone just one different time in program historical past, setting a single-season document with 108 residence runs in 2010. UCLA is on tempo to surpass that mark, averaging 3.05 homers per recreation, which tasks to 159 over the staff’s 52-game common season.
• UCLA’s streak of 23 straight video games with a house run, and 16 straight video games with a number of homers, was snapped in Game 1 at No. 9 Nebraska on March 29.
• UCLA has hit back-to-back jacks 10 occasions this season and 6 occasions over a stretch of seven video games from March 11-23. The Bruins hit back-to-back-to-back residence runs twice throughout that seven-game span. Before this season, the final time UCLA went back-to-back-to-back was in February 2022.
• UCLA has scored 52.8 p.c of its runs this season by way of the longball (198 of 375 whole runs scored). Ten totally different Bruins have homered a complete of 104 occasions this season, which ranks second within the nation behind Oklahoma.
• Six totally different Bruins have hit a complete of 9 grand slams this season.
Jordan Woolery has hit a team-high three grand slams this season. Catcher
Alexis Ramirez is true behind her with two grand slams of her personal.
COACH I MILESTONES •
Kelly Inouye-Perez turned UCLA softball’s all-time winningest head coach after defeating No. 4 Florida on Feb. 27 on the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton for her 888th profession victory. She handed her predecessor, former coach and NFCA Hall of Famer Sue Enquist who had an total mark of 887-175-1 (.835). Sharron Backus, the inaugural coach in UCLA softball historical past, was the primary to achieve 800 wins as she retired with a document of 854-173-3 (.831). The three UCLA Athletic Hall-of-Fame head coaches are answerable for the entire Bruins’ 2,237 wins and 13 nationwide championships, that are each probably the most in NCAA historical past.
• Later this season, Inouye-Perez secured her 900th profession victory in UCLA’s 13-3 win at Rutgers on March 22. She turned the fifty fifth head coach in NCAA Division I Softball historical past to achieve that milestone. UCLA has topped 50 wins in 9 of Inouye-Perez’s 20 seasons as head coach and reached the Women’s College World Series 11 occasions.
USA SOFTBALL COLLEGIATE PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST • UCLA seniors
Megan Grant,
Taylor Tinsley and
Jordan Woolery had been named to the celebrated 2026 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List, it was introduced Jan. 21. The full listing is comprised of 53 student-athletes from 24 universities. This marks the third straight yr Grant and Woolery have appeared on the Watch List, and the second straight for Tinsley. Last season, Grant and Woolery had been USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Finalists with Grant making the reduce for the Top 25 and Woolery advancing to the Top 10.
• The Top 25 Finalists for the award shall be introduced April 29. While an athlete doesn’t must be on the Watch List to be thought-about for the Top 25, the eventual USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year will come from the Top 25 Finalists. Two Bruins have obtained the respect a complete of 3 times. Rachel Garcia was a back-to-back winner of the award in 2018 and 2019 and Stacey Nuveman gained the award in 2002. Six UCLA student-athletes have been a Top 3 Finalist for the award a complete of 9 occasions, most not too long ago achieved by Maya Brady in 2023.
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