Two-time NFCA All-American and UCLA softball utility Megan Grant has joined the UCLA women’s basketball roster for the 2025-2026 season, the team announced Friday.
Grant – who concluded her junior campaign with 26 home runs, 81 RBIs and a .376 batting average – was a multi-sport varsity athlete at Aragon High School in San Mateo, California. Grant lettered four times in softball and thrice for basketball and volleyball during her four years at Aragon.
In her senior season on the Aragon women’s basketball team, Grant boasted a team-high seven rebounds per game while averaging 9.5 points per contest to help lead her squad to the Central Coast Section title game.
“Being a Bruin is something that I take tremendous pride in,” Grant said in a written statement. “Words can’t express how grateful I am to now be able to represent both UCLA softball and UCLA women’s basketball – two elite and legendary programs.”
Grant had a historic 2025 softball campaign.
In the squad’s first season in the Big Ten, she set the conference’s single-season home run record while also ranking top 10 in the nation in RBIs and slugging percentage.
Outside the shattered records, the San Bruno, California, local also brings a wealth of leadership experience. She led the Bruins to back-to-back trips to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series and helped capture a 2024 Pac-12 tournament championship.
The 5-foot-10 first baseman, who will wear No. 43 for the women’s basketball squad’s 2025-2026 campaign, is listed as a guard/forward. Grant joins rising senior forward Gabriela Jaquez as another softball and women’s basketball dual-sport athlete – the latter joined the softball roster in May 2024.
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Grant always dreamed of playing basketball – naming basketball as her “first love.”
“The opportunity to have someone’s dream come true under your supervision is just special,” UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close said in a written statement. “When I heard that Megan’s dream was to play on the basketball team and was to be a part of this, that her love of basketball had never waned, how could I say no? That was just a privilege to say yes, let’s add her.”
And her current head coach said she supports Grant’s lifelong dream of becoming a collegiate dual-sport athlete
“I cannot be more proud of Megan for pursuing her dream of playing college basketball, especially for such a storied program and passionate leader like Coach Cori,” UCLA softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said in a written statement. “The most ambitious, competitive and high-level athletes in the world come to UCLA, and Megan Grant is a prime example.”
Grant finished her high school basketball career with 556 points, 421 rebounds and 81 steals and was named the 2021-2022 Daily Journal Girls’ Athlete of the Year. Grant also ranked as the No. 3 overall athlete in SportsStars’ Bay Area Top 75 Athlete yearly rankings at the end of her high school career.
