Friday, February 14
Clearwater, Fla.
12:00 PM (PT)
UCLA
vs
Oklahoma State
Freshman catcher Sofia Mujica
Photo by: Ross Turteltaub
Bruins Return to Clearwater for Five Games in Three Days
February 12, 2025 | Softball
LOS ANGELES โ The No. 4-ranked UCLA softball team makes its fifth appearance at the Shriners Children's Clearwater Invitational hosted at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater, Fla. this week from Friday, Feb. 14 through Sunday, Feb. 16. The Bruins (5-0) will play five games over three days, including two contests versus teams that reached the Women's College World Series last season: Oklahoma State and Alabama.
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All five of UCLA's games will be televised and live streamed by the ESPN Family of Networks.
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UCLA opens competition with two games Friday versus No. 9 Oklahoma State at 12 p.m. (PT) on ESPN2 and Charlotte at 4 p.m. on ESPN+. Saturday features two top-25 matchups against No. 23 Kentucky at 9 a.m. on ESPN+ and No. 14 Alabama on ESPNU. The Bruins close the week versus Virginia on Sunday at 7 a.m. on ESPN+.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Eddie C. Moore Complex (Clearwater, Fla.)
Games (all times Pacific)
Friday, Feb. 14 vs. Oklahoma State โ 12 p.m. โ ESPN2
Friday, Feb. 14 vs. Charlotte โ 4 p.m. ย โ ESPN+
Saturday, Feb. 15 vs. Kentucky โ 9 a.m. โ ESPN+
Saturday, Feb. 15 vs. Alabama โ 1 p.m. โ ESPNU
Sunday, Feb. 16 vs. Virginia โ 7 a.m. โ ESPN+
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. UCLA's next home game at Easton Stadium is on March 6 versus LMU.
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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 UCLA opened week one with five straight mercy-rule wins for the first time in program history, outscoring opponents 44-2.
โข P Taylor Tinsley was named Softball America "Star of the Week" after striking out 14 in UCLA's season opener versus IU Indianapolis.
โข UCLA's pitching staff ranks top 5 in the NCAA in K/BB ratio (1st, 17.00), strikeouts (2nd, 51) and ERA (4th, 0.50).
โข UTIL Savannah Pola has recorded four straight multi-hit games and leads UCLA with a .692 average entering Clearwater.
โข Head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez penciled four freshmen into the Opening Day starting lineup for the program's most since 2004.
โข UCLA opens its 51st softball season this spring, the 19th year with head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez at the helm.
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 have 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 a 823-209-1 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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UCLA IN WEEK ONE
UCLA outscored its opponents 44-2 with five straight mercy-rule wins to open the 2025 season. The Bruins' pitching staff ranked second in the NCAA with three walks allowed and 51 strikeouts in week one. At the plate, UCLA enters Clearwater ranked fourth nationally with a .426 batting average and .730 slugging percentage. UTIL Savannah Pola recorded four consecutive multi-hit games to close the first week of action and currently leads the Bruins with a .692 average (9-for-13) and three doubles.
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Freshmen Sofia Mujica and Rylee Slimp made an instant impact, each recording their first career home runs in their first collegiate games. Mujica went 3-for-3 with a mercy-rule walk-off homer in UCLA's season opener versus IU Indianapolis on Feb. 7. Graduate transfer Jessica Clements led off all five games, going 9-for-17 at the plate with six runs scored and three stolen bases.
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Pitcher Taylor Tinsley struck out 14 of her 18 total batters faced and threw 54 of her 61 pitches for strikes in her Opening Day start versus the Jaguars. Tinsley's 14 strikeouts tied a UCLA Opening Day record, matching Debbie Doom, a National Softball and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer, who originally set the mark in 1983. Kaitlyn Terry took a perfect game into the fifth inning versus Lehigh on Feb. 8 at the Mark Campbell Invitational in Irvine, Calif. before two errors and an infield single ruined the bid.
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HISTORY AT THE CLEARWATER INVITATIONAL
UCLA is one of three programs to compete at the Clearwater Invitational five-plus years, owning an all-time record of 14-3. Twice the Bruins have went an undefeated 5-0 at the event in 2020 and 2023. Junior Jordan Woolery leads all active UCLA players with a .455 batting average (10-for-22), nine RBI and five extra-base hits (four doubles, one home run) over seven games in Clearwater.
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Saturday will mark the third time UCLA has squared off with Alabama at the Clearwater Invitational. The Bruins have bested the Tide in each of the last two matchups by scores of 5-3 in 2023 and 7-0 in 2020. In the 2023 matchup, then-freshman Jordan Woolery hit the first home run of her collegiate career for a grand slam off Montana Fouts to give UCLA a 4-2 lead.
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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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NOTES ON 2024
โข UCLA posted a 43-12 record and 17-4 mark in conference play, claiming the Pac-12 regular season and Pac-12 Tournament titles.
โข The Bruins made their NCAA-record 32nd Women's College World Series appearance after a one-year absence in 2023.
โข The season was highlighted by a 13-game winning streak, stretching from April 28 through game one at the WCWS.
โข UCLA won five games when trailing by four-plus runs and recorded 11 wins when tied or trailing in the fifth inning or later.
โข Kelly Inouye-Perez recorded her 800th-career win on April 19, 2024 at Stanford.
โข The Bruins supplanted Stanford in first place of the Pac-12 standings with a sweep of the No. 5 Cardinal from April 19-21.
โข UCLA overcame a seven-run deficit versus rival Arizona on April 28 after being perfect gamed through four innings thanks to a game-tying grand slam by RS Sr. Sharlize Palacios. UCLA eventually won 11-7, securing the largest comeback win in program history.
โข RS Sr. Maya Brady claimed her second straight Pac-12 Player of the Year award and received NFCA First Team All-American acclaim.
โข Kaitlyn Terry was named 2024 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, receiving UCLA's fifth such honor in the last seven seasons.
โข Palacios was named a NFCA Second Team All-American after leading the Pac-12 with 20 homers.
โข Palacios homered 11 times in UCLA's 18 games leading up to the WCWS, including five in NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals.
โข Megan Grant, Taylor Tinsley, Jordan Woolery, Brady, Palacios and Terry all earned All-Pac-12 First Team honors.
โข Terry and Tinsley pitched 329.1 of UCLA's 355.0 total innings.
โข In eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts and totaled a 1.71 earned run average over 49.0 innings.
โข Gr. Jadelyn Allchin was one of the most valuable transfer additions in the country, earning All-Pac-12 Second Team acclaim.
โข Inouye-Perez earned her fourth Pac-10/12 Coach of the Year honor (2009, '21, '23, '24).
โข UCLA received NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year and Softball America National CSOY honors
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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+. Fans using promo code "UCLA2025" can get 50% off for the first three months when selecting a monthly pass (offer expires Feb. 15).
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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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All five of UCLA's games will be televised and live streamed by the ESPN Family of Networks.
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UCLA opens competition with two games Friday versus No. 9 Oklahoma State at 12 p.m. (PT) on ESPN2 and Charlotte at 4 p.m. on ESPN+. Saturday features two top-25 matchups against No. 23 Kentucky at 9 a.m. on ESPN+ and No. 14 Alabama on ESPNU. The Bruins close the week versus Virginia on Sunday at 7 a.m. on ESPN+.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Eddie C. Moore Complex (Clearwater, Fla.)
Games (all times Pacific)
Friday, Feb. 14 vs. Oklahoma State โ 12 p.m. โ ESPN2
Friday, Feb. 14 vs. Charlotte โ 4 p.m. ย โ ESPN+
Saturday, Feb. 15 vs. Kentucky โ 9 a.m. โ ESPN+
Saturday, Feb. 15 vs. Alabama โ 1 p.m. โ ESPNU
Sunday, Feb. 16 vs. Virginia โ 7 a.m. โ ESPN+
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. UCLA's next home game at Easton Stadium is on March 6 versus LMU.
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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 UCLA opened week one with five straight mercy-rule wins for the first time in program history, outscoring opponents 44-2.
โข P Taylor Tinsley was named Softball America "Star of the Week" after striking out 14 in UCLA's season opener versus IU Indianapolis.
โข UCLA's pitching staff ranks top 5 in the NCAA in K/BB ratio (1st, 17.00), strikeouts (2nd, 51) and ERA (4th, 0.50).
โข UTIL Savannah Pola has recorded four straight multi-hit games and leads UCLA with a .692 average entering Clearwater.
โข Head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez penciled four freshmen into the Opening Day starting lineup for the program's most since 2004.
โข UCLA opens its 51st softball season this spring, the 19th year with head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez at the helm.
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 have 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 a 823-209-1 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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UCLA IN WEEK ONE
UCLA outscored its opponents 44-2 with five straight mercy-rule wins to open the 2025 season. The Bruins' pitching staff ranked second in the NCAA with three walks allowed and 51 strikeouts in week one. At the plate, UCLA enters Clearwater ranked fourth nationally with a .426 batting average and .730 slugging percentage. UTIL Savannah Pola recorded four consecutive multi-hit games to close the first week of action and currently leads the Bruins with a .692 average (9-for-13) and three doubles.
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Freshmen Sofia Mujica and Rylee Slimp made an instant impact, each recording their first career home runs in their first collegiate games. Mujica went 3-for-3 with a mercy-rule walk-off homer in UCLA's season opener versus IU Indianapolis on Feb. 7. Graduate transfer Jessica Clements led off all five games, going 9-for-17 at the plate with six runs scored and three stolen bases.
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Pitcher Taylor Tinsley struck out 14 of her 18 total batters faced and threw 54 of her 61 pitches for strikes in her Opening Day start versus the Jaguars. Tinsley's 14 strikeouts tied a UCLA Opening Day record, matching Debbie Doom, a National Softball and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer, who originally set the mark in 1983. Kaitlyn Terry took a perfect game into the fifth inning versus Lehigh on Feb. 8 at the Mark Campbell Invitational in Irvine, Calif. before two errors and an infield single ruined the bid.
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HISTORY AT THE CLEARWATER INVITATIONAL
UCLA is one of three programs to compete at the Clearwater Invitational five-plus years, owning an all-time record of 14-3. Twice the Bruins have went an undefeated 5-0 at the event in 2020 and 2023. Junior Jordan Woolery leads all active UCLA players with a .455 batting average (10-for-22), nine RBI and five extra-base hits (four doubles, one home run) over seven games in Clearwater.
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Saturday will mark the third time UCLA has squared off with Alabama at the Clearwater Invitational. The Bruins have bested the Tide in each of the last two matchups by scores of 5-3 in 2023 and 7-0 in 2020. In the 2023 matchup, then-freshman Jordan Woolery hit the first home run of her collegiate career for a grand slam off Montana Fouts to give UCLA a 4-2 lead.
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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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NOTES ON 2024
โข UCLA posted a 43-12 record and 17-4 mark in conference play, claiming the Pac-12 regular season and Pac-12 Tournament titles.
โข The Bruins made their NCAA-record 32nd Women's College World Series appearance after a one-year absence in 2023.
โข The season was highlighted by a 13-game winning streak, stretching from April 28 through game one at the WCWS.
โข UCLA won five games when trailing by four-plus runs and recorded 11 wins when tied or trailing in the fifth inning or later.
โข Kelly Inouye-Perez recorded her 800th-career win on April 19, 2024 at Stanford.
โข The Bruins supplanted Stanford in first place of the Pac-12 standings with a sweep of the No. 5 Cardinal from April 19-21.
โข UCLA overcame a seven-run deficit versus rival Arizona on April 28 after being perfect gamed through four innings thanks to a game-tying grand slam by RS Sr. Sharlize Palacios. UCLA eventually won 11-7, securing the largest comeback win in program history.
โข RS Sr. Maya Brady claimed her second straight Pac-12 Player of the Year award and received NFCA First Team All-American acclaim.
โข Kaitlyn Terry was named 2024 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, receiving UCLA's fifth such honor in the last seven seasons.
โข Palacios was named a NFCA Second Team All-American after leading the Pac-12 with 20 homers.
โข Palacios homered 11 times in UCLA's 18 games leading up to the WCWS, including five in NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals.
โข Megan Grant, Taylor Tinsley, Jordan Woolery, Brady, Palacios and Terry all earned All-Pac-12 First Team honors.
โข Terry and Tinsley pitched 329.1 of UCLA's 355.0 total innings.
โข In eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts and totaled a 1.71 earned run average over 49.0 innings.
โข Gr. Jadelyn Allchin was one of the most valuable transfer additions in the country, earning All-Pac-12 Second Team acclaim.
โข Inouye-Perez earned her fourth Pac-10/12 Coach of the Year honor (2009, '21, '23, '24).
โข UCLA received NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year and Softball America National CSOY honors
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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+. Fans using promo code "UCLA2025" can get 50% off for the first three months when selecting a monthly pass (offer expires Feb. 15).
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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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