Rachel Garcia

Last Friday, Arrianna Romero, the standout pitcher and hitter for Daniel Bustamante’s Athletics – Mercado/Bustamante 12U 2027 team, was named the No. 1 player in the 2027 Extra Elite 100. How did she find out she was tabbed as the top-ranked prospect in the initial rankings for her...

San Diego State announced on Friday the addition of softball legend Rachel Garcia to the Aztecs’ coaching staff. Garcia will serve as a volunteer assistant coach at SDSU, joining the inaugural staff of head coach Stacey Nuveman-Deniz, who enters her first season as head coach and is a fellow UCLA Bruin alumnus.

The young professional league is expanding by adding a standalone tournament in June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

Here is the full release from UCLA on Rachel Garcia winning the Honda Award:. For the third year in a row, Rachel Garcia has been named the Honda Sport Award winner for Softball, as announced on Friday by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). Garcia...

NEW YORK CITY - Senior Rachel Garcia made history on Monday, as she was named the back-to-back winner of the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Award and the prestigious Honda Cup, as announced during a televised ceremony at the CBS Studios. Garcia, a three-time winner of the Honda Sport...

The following information as well as the GIF above were provided by NFCA…. UCLA’s Rachel Garcia and Alabama’s Montana Fouts were voted the 2021 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Year, the Association announced on Friday afternoon. For Garcia, this is the senior’s third consecutive NFCA...

For the third year in a row, Rachel Garcia has been named the Honda Sport Award winner for Softball, as announced on Friday by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). Garcia becomes the second Bruin to be named a three-time winner of the Honda Sport...

MUSKEGON – Oakridge’s softball program has featured several great pitchers and great hitters over the years, some doing both at a high level. Brooklyn Galdeen is definitely in that latter category. The Oakridge junior been setting the tone both in the pitcher’s circle and at the plate for the second-ranked Eagles (34-4), who travel to Hudsonville Saturday to take on No. 10 Unity Christian (30-7) in a Division 2 regional semifinal at noon.

UCLA (47-5) will face No. 3 seed Alabama in the second round Friday at 6:30 p.m. PDT. Garcia gave up five hits and two walks with 11 strikeouts, her seventh double-digit strikeout performance of the season. Faraimo, who had a 19-3 record and 1.10 ERA, is day-to-day and did not...

As much as she’s known for flummoxing hitters with a devastating rise ball or smashing home runs, Rachel Garcia is recognized for her stone-faced expression while she does it all. UCLA’s star pitcher shows nothing more than a smirk if she gives up a home run and simply purses her lips for a split second if she disagrees with an umpire’s strike call.

United States Olympian Rachel Garcia was one of the 12 players chosen in the first Athletes Unlimited softball draft on Monday night. Garcia, a right-handed pitcher for UCLA, is a two-time USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She led the Bruins to the national title in 2019. Three Arizona...

For the first time this season, the Bruins played in front of spectators at Easton Stadium. Rachel Garcia made sure to give the crowd something to cheer about. The redshirt senior pitcher/first baseman threw a no-hitter and struck out 12 batters as No. 2 UCLA softball (23-2, 6-1 Pac-12) defeated Oregon State (15-18, 3-10) 7-0 Friday evening. Garcia’s second career no-hitter took place in the Bruins’ first home game since UCLA began allowing a small number of guests – limited to players’ family and special personnel – to watch outdoor sporting events in person.

Saturday’s doubleheader in Eugene between Pac-12 powerhouses UCLA and Oregon could go a long way in determining the Pac-12 standings, and possibly more. Unfortunately for the Ducks, they dropped the first game 3-0. Coming off a dominant, complete game in yesterday's win, Brooke Yanez got the start again. After surrendering...

EUGENE — Melyssa Lombardi preaches the need for Oregon to rely on its full pitching staff to win games, but the Ducks coach leaned on ace Brooke Yanez two innings too long and it proved costly on Sunday. Yanez gave up just one hit her first two times through the...