Mysha Sataraka - Softball Coach

Mysha Sataraka

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
msataraka@athletics.ucla.edu

Mysha Sataraka enters her first season as an assistant coach with the UCLA softball program in 2026, marking her ninth season of coaching overall. Sataraka was an All-American and four-year starter at third base for the Bruins from 2013-16 before beginning her coaching career.

Sataraka’s hire was announced by Kelly Inouye-Perez, The Shelly Carlin UCLA Head Softball Coach, on Aug. 7, 2025.

Sataraka returns to Westwood after spending the last three years as an assistant coach at Penn State where she worked primarily with the Nittany Lions’ offense. Sataraka helped lead the Nittany Lions to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024, three berths into the Big Ten Tournament and back-to-back 30-win seasons in 2023 and 2024.

Penn State produced its most powerful offensive campaign in program history with the help of Sataraka last season. The Nittany Lions set single-season program records in home runs (74), runs scored (341), batting average (.329) and total bases (770).

Sataraka helped steer Penn State to its third-winningest season in program history in her second year in Happy Valley in 2024, booking a 35-20 overall record and the Nittany Lions’ first NCAA Regional bid since 2011. Penn State defeated UAlbany in an elimination contest in the Bryan-College Station Regional for the program’s 13th NCAA Tournament win in school history.

Sataraka assisted a Penn State staff that saw 11 student-athletes land All-Big Ten Conference accolades over the past three years. Nine of those Nittany Lions were hitters. Sataraka helped turn sophomore infielder Brooke Klosowicz into one of the top offensive threats in the Big Ten in 2025. After hitting for a .239 clip as a freshman, Klosowicz finished eighth in the conference with a .422 batting average, second with 23 doubles and seventh with an .851 slugging percentage in addition to belting a team-high 13 home runs. Junior infielder Emily Maddock also had a remarkable turnaround with a team-leading .439 batting average and .491 on-base percentage in Sataraka’s first year on staff in 2023. Maddock became the first Penn State position player to be named to the All-Big Ten First Team in six years.

Ten Penn State players, including seven hitters, received NFCA All-Region accolades during Sataraka’s tenure.

After her UCLA playing career, Sataraka spent four years as an assistant coach for CSUN from 2017-20 before joining LMU as an assistant coach in November 2020. Sataraka helped LMU to a West Coast Conference Championship under head coach and former UCLA softball great Tairia Flowers in 2022.

Sataraka was UCLA’s starting third baseman for four seasons from 2013-16 and helped the Bruins to back-to-back Women’s College World Series (WCWS) appearances as a junior and senior. In her senior season, Sataraka hit for a .380 batting average (52-for-137) while posting 15 home runs and 59 RBIs, earning her NFCA Second Team All-America honors. Sataraka was selected to the All-WCWS Team after homering in each of UCLA’s two games in Oklahoma City.

Sataraka concluded her UCLA career with a .337 batting average (178-for-528), 47 home runs and 176 RBIs. She is still ranked in the top 10 of several categories in UCLA’s record book: walks (2nd – 144), on-base percentage (9th – .476) and slugging percentage (10th – .670). Sataraka was also two-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in her sophomore and senior seasons.

Sataraka also owns U.S. national team experience. In the summer of 2013, Sataraka was a member on the USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team that won silver at the ISF Junior Women’s World Championship. In 2016, she was rostered on the USA Softball Women’s Elite Team at the World Cup of Softball XI.

Sataraka also played professionally for the Texas Charge of the National Pro Fastptich League in Summer 2017. She appeared in 43 games for the Charge, hitting .250 with two home runs and eight RBIs.

A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Sataraka graduated from UCLA in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

Sataraka’s Coaching Experience
2017 – Volunteer Assistant Coach, CSUN
2018-20 – Assistant Coach, CSUN
2021-22 – Assistant Coach, LMU
2023-25 – Assistant Coach, Penn State
2026 – Assistant Coach, UCLA