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INF Soo-Jin Berry (left) and RHP Brynne Nally
UCLA Softball Signs Soo-Jin Berry and Brynne Nally
July 21, 2025 | Softball
LOS ANGELES โ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Berry, a native of Pittsburgh, Calif. in the Bay Area, prepped at Clayton Valley Charter High School with two-time All-American Jordan Woolery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Berry, a native of Pittsburgh, Calif. in the Bay Area, prepped at Clayton Valley Charter High School with two-time All-American Jordan Woolery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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