UCLA senior Megan Grant set the NCAA Division I softball residence run file on Saturday along with her thirty eighth lengthy ball of the 2026 season.
Grant was additionally a member of UCLA’s 2026 NCAA basketball championship group.
Within the third inning of Saturday’s recreation in opposition to Nebraska, Grant hit a blast to deep left-center area to cross the earlier file of 37, set in 1995 by Arizona’s Laura Espinoza. Grant set the file in 55 video games, 17 fewer than Espinoza.
“Data are made to be damaged,” Mike Candrea, who coached Espinoza at Arizona, informed The Athletic. “It is a fairly phenomenal file to have the ability to break, so tip my hat off.”
Nebraska defeated UCLA on Saturday, 7-2, to say the Massive Ten title.
On Friday in opposition to Wisconsin, within the semifinals of the Massive Ten convention match, the Bruins reached 181 homers on the season, eclipsing the earlier file of 161 that had stood since 2021.
Grant boosted that quantity to 182 along with her file shot on Saturday.
“Once I first got here into faculty, I needed to place myself within the books as among the finest, and I did not actually know the best way to on the time, however all through my profession, simply increasingly more has gone on, and to have the ability to try this, it is simply, it is surreal,” Grant informed reporters. “I’m simply so grateful for the chance I used to be blessed with, and simply to observe the folks that had been earlier than me. It is simply honor.”
Grant tied UCLA’s single-season file holder, Stacey Nuveman, along with her thirty first homer throughout a doubleheader in opposition to Cal on April 18 and surpassed her on April 24 in opposition to Washington.
Grant and Nuveman are the one Bruins to hit not less than 80 profession homers. Nuveman, whose profession led to 2002, is this system’s all-time chief with 90. Grant has 85.
Grant joins senior teammate Jordan Woolery (33 homers) as the primary teammates in NCAA softball historical past to every hit 30-plus residence runs in the identical season.
The NCAA Division I Choice Present is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, when UCLA (47-8) will discover out its postseason seeding. The Bruins are looking for their first Ladies’s School World Sequence title since 2019 and their thirteenth in NCAA historical past.
Grant, Woolery and Taylor Tinsley all intend to proceed their softball careers within the Athletes Limitless Softball League this summer time.
–Area Stage Media
