Three UCLA seniors made history on Saturday when they each received Athletes Unlimited Softball League Golden Tickets at Easton Stadium, setting a record for the most awarded to a single team at one time. Pitcher Taylor Tinsley, utility player Megan Grant and infielder Jordan Woolery will be guaranteed selections in the 2026 AUSL College Draft in May.
The trio has spent their entire collegiate careers as Bruins and helped lead UCLA to an NCAA-record 33rd Women's College World Series appearance last season. Their individual accomplishments this year have been staggering. Grant and Woolery became the first teammates in NCAA history to each hit 30 or more home runs in a single season, while Woolery set UCLA's single-season RBI record with 100. Tinsley, meanwhile, leads the pitching staff with a 23-3 record and 2.55 ERA.
Grant's story stands out even beyond the diamond. She joined an exclusive group of dual-sport athletes in UCLA history this season by also playing on the school's national championship women's basketball team, as reported by Yahoo Sports.
The AUSL, founded last summer, is preparing for its second season in June. Including the UCLA trio, 12 players have now received Golden Tickets, with five more still to be awarded. Other recipients include Texas Tech's NiJaree Canady, Texas's Reese Atwood and Leighann Goode, and Arizona's Sydney Stewart.
For a UCLA program that has long defined excellence in college softball, sending three players to the professional ranks in a single ceremony is a fitting punctuation mark on careers built at the sport's highest level.