Dejah Mulipola

Dejah Mulipola is a 5-foot-8 professional softball catcher from Garden Grove, California. She was acquired in the 3rd Round of the 2025 Inaugural Draft following a collegiate career at Arizona.

Personal Life

Hobbies: Enjoys trying new coffee shops and restaurants.

Background: Wears No. 2 in honor of her uncle who passed away in 2024. Lists former Arizona head softball coach Mike Candrea as a person who has made a difference in her life. Her proudest accomplishment is playing in the Olympics.

Family: Daughter of Ed Mulipola and Rosalie Leuta. Has two sisters and three brothers, and both of her sisters played softball.

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Softball League (2021–)

2026 AUSL All-Star Cup: Accumulated 520 leaderboard points in her fifth All-Star Cup. Started seven of eight games with three hits and four walks. Highlights: two hits against Team Klingler on August 22 and a season-high 120 points twice.

2026 AUSL Regular Season (Texas Volts): Mulipola batted .378 with 14 hits, including three doubles and three home runs, driving in seven runs while scoring 10. She tied for third in the AUSL with two sacrifice flies. Mulipola closed out the season on a strong note, riding a six-game hitting streak that included four multi-hit efforts. She slugged a pair of solo home runs against Portland on July 17 and belted another solo homer in the home finale against Oklahoma City on July 15. From July 11 to July 14, she logged three straight two-hit efforts, scoring three runs and adding two doubles during that stretch.

2025 AUSL All-Star Cup: Earned 620 leaderboard points, batting .304 with one home run and four RBIs.

2025 AUSL Regular Season (Volts): Started 14-of-16 games, hitting .217 with two home runs.

2023 Championship & AUX Seasons: Scored 1,064 points in the Championship season (hit .250, three HRs) and 684 points in AUX (four HRs, 13 RBIs).

2022 Championship Season: First position player in AU Softball history to win the individual title, compiling 1,782 points. First player to lead the league in batting average (.432), home runs (9), and RBIs (19) in the same season.

2022 AUX Season: Secured third place with 1,368 points, tying for the league lead in RBIs (11) and home runs (3).

Other Professional Experience

WPF & Japan: Signed with Oklahoma City Spark in 2024 and has competed for Hitachi Sundiva since 2024.

International Experience

Team USA: Member of Team USA since 2018. Won a Silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Led Team USA to Gold at the 2022 and 2025 World Games. Belted four home runs to win Gold at the 2023 Pan American Games.

College Experience: Arizona (2017–2021)

Mulipola was a four-year letter winner at Arizona, starting all 237 games from 2017 to 2021. She sat out the 2020 season to compete in Team USA's "Stand Beside Her" Tour and train for the Tokyo Olympics. Over her college career, she accrued a .335 batting average with 68 home runs and 203 runs batted in, tallying 219 hits, including 33 doubles and six triples, while scoring 192 runs.

Mulipola stands ninth on the Wildcats' career home runs list and ranks 10th in program history with a .716 career slugging percentage. She stands eighth on Arizona's career list with 131 walks. As a senior, she posted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 227 chances, and she is tied for first in Arizona history with a .997 career fielding percentage. She was honored as the Johnny Bench Catcher of the Year in 2019 and was a two-time selection as NFCA Catcher of the Year. She earned First-Team NFCA All-America distinction as both a junior and a senior, and was a three-time First-Team NFCA All-Region honoree. She received All-Pac-12 honors three times, including First-Team commendations in 2019 and 2021. As a senior, Mulipola led the Pac-12 Conference in home runs (21), RBI (63), walks (34), and on-base percentage (.518). During her junior season, she became the first Arizona catcher to earn First-Team All-America notice since 1998, compiling a .311 batting average with 23 home runs in 62 games. As a sophomore, she was named Second-Team All-Pac-12 and earned a spot on the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team. In 2017, as a freshman, she hit .335 with 12 home runs and 49 runs batted in, earning NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year finalist honors.

Awards & Honors

National Honors: 2019 Johnny Bench Catcher of the Year. Two-time NFCA Catcher of the Year.

All-America: Two-time First-Team NFCA All-America distinction.