Jordan Woolery has seemingly achieved every possible award across her four-year career with the Bruins.

But she had yet to achieve the ultimate accolade – a national player of the year selection. 

That changed Tuesday morning, when the senior infielder was named the Softball America Player of the Year.

“Especially with so many good people around the country this year, what everyone has been doing, it’s really cool and a really special award to receive, especially at this time,” Woolery said.  

The Walnut Creek, California, local has thrived in her final collegiate campaign, hammering 34 home runs and plating 111 runners while boasting a .506 batting average – all career-highs for the fourth-year player. Woolery’s plated-runner tally is also a nation high, leading the next-best hitter by more than 20 RBIs.

If Woolery maintains her plus-.500 clip at the plate, she will become the first player in NCAA softball history to eclipse that threshold while posting at least 30 four-baggers and 100 RBIs in a single season.

The infielder broke Bruin alumnus Stacey Nuveman’s program single-season RBI record in UCLA’s double-header against California on April 18, when she notched her 91st RBI to surpass Nuveman’s 90-RBI mark, previously set in 1999. Woolery’s 1.91 RBIs per contest clip also currently stands as an NCAA record.

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Woolery also earned the Big Ten Player of the Year honor May 8, becoming the first Bruin since Maya Brady achieved the Pac-12 Player of the Year award in 2024 to brandish the conference player of the year title.

The senior has cracked the All-Conference First Team every year in college, and Woolery has earned three Softball American All-American selections, making the First Team in 2025 and 2026 and the Third Team as a freshman.

“It’s been a buildup the last four years,” Woolery said. “There’s been moments where I’ve wanted to win an award like this, and there’s been times where I feel like I would perform, but just understanding that it’s a long season and a long four years, and knowing that there’s not one moment that’s in mind to me, and it’s just cool to see this moment come to fruition.”

As part of the “Bruin Bomber” tandem, Woolery and senior utility Megan Grant also clinched their status as the first duo to each eclipse 30 home runs in a single season in the same doubleheader against Cal.

Woolery’s 34 home runs in 2026 are tied for fifth-most in NCAA history, which is just six home runs away from Grant’s 40 – the single-season NCAA record.

The senior credited her teammates and her coaching staff, particularly associate head coach and hitting specialist Lisa Fernandez, for her success across her four-year career in Westwood.

Without them it wouldn’t be possible,” Woolery said. “Even this year, my success, I credit it all to the team and also the coaches because without them believing in me and supporting me at this time it wouldn’t have been possible, especially Coach Lisa. And then even my teammates, too, who’ve been having my back at all times. It means a lot, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without them.”

Woolery will continue her senior-year campaign this weekend at the Los Angeles super regional, which starts Friday night.