![]() ![]() “What I see in Maya now is just Maya being Maya, getting away from the expectations and noise and getting back to just playing softball.” She is one of just two UCLA players to start in the same position every game this season, joining fifth-year senior Briana Perez, who has made 157 consecutive starts at shortstop. After experimenting at second base and all over the outfield, Brady is now the team’s consistent center-field force. But I feel like this year for me, I’m in a lot more control.”Ī former shortstop who switched to center field when she joined the Bruins, Brady said she feels “10 times more confident” in her defensive prowess. “We’re traveling and we got to the World Series and it would just kind of happen so fast for me that I felt like I was along for the ride. “I was going a million miles an hour,” said Brady, who still tied for the team lead in home runs with 14 last season and was named a first-team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Assn. That’s why her “second freshman season” last year felt like a “whirlwind.” But the season ended before the Bruins entered Pac-12 play, leaving Brady without a true test of her abilities on the highest collegiate level. ![]() She led the Bruins in home runs with seven during the pandemic-shortened season and was named Softball America freshman of the year. 438 postseason batting average trails only red-hot catcher Delanie Wisz (.500). 333 mark that earned her first-team All-American honors last season. The late-season surge is helping Brady shake off her sophomore struggles as she enters the World Series with a. PDT on ESPN in the double-elimination tournament.īrady arrives in Oklahoma City on a hot streak with hits in 10 of her last 11 games, including a three-for-three, two-RBI performance in UCLA’s super regional-clinching win over Duke last week. 5-seed Bruins (48-8) face Texas (43-19) in Thursday’s opening game at 9 a.m. The redshirt sophomore first fell in love with UCLA as a kid watching the Bruins win the national championship in 2010, and now she’s playing on the same stage, hoping to help the program to its 13th NCAA title. Standing in center field amid the chaos, Brady felt at peace. When the UCLA star made her Women’s College World Series debut last year, she marveled at the packed stands that extended into an upper deck and wrapped around the outfield. Stepping onto the field at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium gave Maya Brady chills. You have to love the family love.The moment was surreal. Tom spoke about how excited he was to watch his niece just last week. The Brady DNA is special □ □ #WCWS x /mObyBp6GQf Her reaction was absolutely electric as she rounded the bases. Here’s a look at one of her homers from the afternoon. She was 2 of 4 at the plate with five RBI. No matter how UCLA plays in the second game, Brady’s performance in this game will be unforgettable. UCLA and Oklahoma will play again on Monday, and the winner will advance to the finals. Maya Brady’s performance in the Women’s College World Series was reminiscent of something her uncle Tom Brady would do in an NFL playoff game.īrady hit a pair of homers in UCLA’s win over Oklahoma on Monday in the semifinal of the Women’s College World Series. Maybe the clutch gene is … actually a gene.
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