#7, Utility, L/R

Maya Brady

University of California, Los Angeles '24

Hometown: Thousand Oaks, California

2025 AUSL Champion (Talons)

Maya Brady is a 5-foot-10 professional softball utility player from Thousand Oaks, California. She was acquired in the 1st Round of the 2026 Expansion Draft following a collegiate career at UCLA.

Personal Life

Family: Daughter of Brian Timmons and Maureen Brady. Mother was an All-America softball player at Fresno State. Uncle, Tom Brady, won seven Super Bowl titles. Uncle, Kevin Youkilis, won two World Series championships.

Education: Earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UCLA and is pursuing a marketing certificate.

Background: Competed in soccer, volleyball, golf, and flag football as a child. Lists graduating from UCLA as her proudest accomplishment.

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball & AUSL (2024–2025)

2025 AUSL Regular Season: Appeared in six games with the AUSL champion Talons after being activated off the Injured List. Fashioned a .647 batting average with 11 hits in 17 at-bats. Recorded at least one hit in all six games, contributing one home run, five runs scored, and five RBIs.

2024 Championship Season: One of 15 players selected in the 2024 Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball College Draft.

International Experience (2022–2026)

Team USA: Guided Team USA to a Silver medal at the 2024 WBSC World Cup, hitting .375 with two doubles. Competed for Team USA at the 2023 WBSC World Cup Stage event and the 2022 Japan All-Star Series. Named to the Team USA roster for the 2025 World Games and is in the 2026 National Team pool.

College Experience: UCLA (2020–2024)

Career Statistics: Started 247-of-249 career games. Ranks second on UCLA's career lists for home runs (71), RBIs (246), total bases (550), and slugging percentage (.757). Finished 10th in Bruins’ history with a .384 career batting average.

Redshirt Senior (2024): Led UCLA with a .418 batting average, pacing the team in hits (71), RBIs (68), runs scored (59), and extra-base hits (31).

Senior Year (2023): Claimed the Pac-12 batting title. Bruins’ leading hitter with a .448 average, pacing the squad with 18 home runs and 59 RBIs.

Junior Year (2022): Started all 61 games in center field, hitting .339 with 15 home runs and 53 RBIs.

Sophomore Year (2021): Authored a .333 batting average while leading UCLA with 14 home runs.

Freshman Year (2020): Paced UCLA with seven home runs and 28 RBIs during the COVID-shortened season, batting .356.

Awards & Honors

All-America: One of 11 UCLA players to claim three NFCA First-Team All-America citations.

National Honors: Two-time finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award. 2020 Softball America Freshman of the Year.

Conference Honors: Four-time All-Pac-12 Conference honoree who won back-to-back Pac-12 Player of the Year awards (2023, 2024).

YEAR	G	GS	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
2026 AUSL	18	18	67	56	.393	.478	.911	1.389	20	22	3	1	8	17	9	1	13	7	51	1	-	-	-
2025 AUSL	6	6	22	17	.647	.727	.882	1.609	5	11	1	-	1	5	4	1	2	-	15	-	-	1	1
Career Totals	24	24	89	73	.452	.539	.904	1.443	25	33	4	1	9	22	13	2	15	44	66	1	-	1	1

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Splits

DATE	HOME TEAM	AWAY TEAM	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
7/15/2026	Volts	Spark	4	3	-	.250	-	.250	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
7/14/2026	Volts	Spark	4	2	-	.250	-	.250	1	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	2	-	1	-	-	-
7/12/2026	Spark	Talons	3	3	.333	.333	1.333	1.666	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	4	-	-	-	-
7/11/2026	Spark	Talons	4	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	-	-	-	-
7/9/2026	Spark	Talons	4	4	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	2	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	4	-	-	-	-
7/5/2026	Spark	Cascade	4	4	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	4	-	-	-	-
7/4/2026	Spark	Cascade	4	3	.667	.750	.667	1.417	2	2	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
6/23/2026	Talons	Spark	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6/22/2026	Talons	Spark	3	3	.333	.333	.333	.666	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-
6/21/2026	Cascade	Spark	4	4	.500	.500	1.250	1.750	2	2	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	5	-	-	-	-
6/19/2026	Cascade	Spark	4	3	.667	.750	2.000	2.750	3	2	1	-	1	1	1	-	1	-	6	-	-	-	-
6/18/2026	Cascade	Spark	4	4	.250	.250	.500	.750	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-
6/16/2026	Bandits	Spark	4	4	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	1	4	-	-	-	-
6/14/2026	Bandits	Spark	3	2	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
6/13/2026	Bandits	Spark	4	3	.667	.750	1.333	2.083	1	2	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
6/11/2026	Spark	Volts	4	3	.667	.750	1.000	1.750	2	2	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-
6/10/2026	Spark	Volts	4	2	.500	.750	2.000	2.750	1	1	-	-	1	3	2	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
6/9/2026	Spark	Volts	5	4	.750	.800	1.500	2.300	2	3	-	-	1	5	1	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Highlights

What We Learned From Every AUSL Team’s First Series

The first series of the 2026 Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) season is in the books! Whether you just hope all six teams have fun or you’re an early diehard for a particular franchise, it can be difficult to know what to glean in just the first series. But in a season that’s only 30 […]

Awards & Honors

2025 AUSL Champion (Talons)

Three-Time NFCA First-Team All-American

Two-Time Pac-12 Player of the Year (2023, 2024)

Four-Time All-Pac-12 Conference

Second in UCLA history for HR, RBIs, TB, and SLG%

7/3/2026-
Maya Brady was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/25/2026-
Maya Brady placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/24/2026
12/2/2025Spark
Spark drafted Maya Brady in the expansion draft: [Round 1, Pick 1 (1)]
7/16/2025-
Maya Brady was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/20/2025-
Maya Brady was reinstated from the temporary inactive list
6/20/2025-
Maya Brady placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/19/2025
6/3/2025-
Talons placed Maya Brady on the temporary inactive list
1/30/2025Talons
Talons drafted Maya Brady in the inagural draft [Round 5, Pick 3(19)]

DATE	TEAM	TRANSACTION
7/3/2026		Maya Brady was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/25/2026		Maya Brady placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/24/2026
12/2/2025	Spark	Spark drafted Maya Brady in the expansion draft: [Round 1, Pick 1 (1)]
7/16/2025		Maya Brady was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/20/2025		Maya Brady was reinstated from the temporary inactive list
6/20/2025		Maya Brady placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/19/2025
6/3/2025		Talons placed Maya Brady on the temporary inactive list
1/30/2025	Talons	Talons drafted Maya Brady in the inagural draft [Round 5, Pick 3(19)]