UCLA softball shortstop Maya Brady has dedicated to taking part in within the new Athletes Limitless Softball League (AUSL), ESPN reported.
Including a participant of Brady’s caliber and star energy is anticipated to offer a lift to the upstart league that can conduct its inaugural draft this week.
The 23-year-old is the niece of seven-time Tremendous Bowl winner and present FOX Sports activities lead NFL analyst Tom Brady.
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Maya Brady of the UCLA Bruins throughout a sport in opposition to the Stanford Cardinal at Easton Stadium April 2, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Katharine Lotze/Getty Pictures)
The left-handed UCLA Bruin additionally performs within the outfield and has obtained first-team All-American honors twice. Brady was additionally beforehand named the Pac-12 Participant of the Yr and was the Softball America Freshman of the Yr in 2020.
UCLA has lengthy boasted one of many high softball packages within the nation, and Brady ranks second on the college’s all-time residence run checklist.
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Former Miami Marlins common supervisor Kim Ng is spearheading AUSL and was named a senior advisor final yr. Ng has stated the league can be “Main League Baseball for softball.”
The league will characteristic 4 groups taking part in 30 video games in six to eight cities in its first season.
The Bandits, Blaze, Volts and Talons would be the league’s unique 4 groups.
Maya Brady of the UCLA Bruins in opposition to the Stanford Cardinal within the third inning at Boyd at Jill Smith Household Stadium April 20, 2024, in Stanford, Calif. (Eakin Howard/Getty Pictures)
“Softball is poised for large development on the skilled stage, and the AUSL is assembly the second by creating the action-packed, world-class softball league that this sport has deserved for therefore lengthy,” Ng stated.
“The caliber of gamers vying to be drafted tomorrow — Olympians, Workforce USA veterans, All-Individuals and NCAA champions — additional exemplifies that the world’s finest gamers are right here collectively as a unit of founding members who will make the AUSL the subsequent huge factor in ladies’s sports activities.”
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UCLA’s Maya Brady celebrates after a house run throughout the third inning of an NCAA softball Girls’s School World Collection sport in opposition to Oklahoma June 6, 2022, in Oklahoma Metropolis. (AP Photograph/Alonzo Adams)
Brady hit 71 residence runs with 246 RBIs in 249 video games at UCLA.
Final summer time, two completely different four-team softball leagues held video games, Girls’s Skilled Fastpitch and Affiliation of Fastpitch Professionals.
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