Megan Grant holds NCAA's softball home run record. Can UCLA slugger keep it?

Megan Grant did something in the Big Ten Softball Tournament championship that no Division I softball player had done in 31 seasons — it had been flirted at, but never broken until then.

The UCLA softball right-handed hitter lasered an 0-2 pitch off Nebraska's Jordy Frahm over the right center fence for her 38th home run of the season, passing Laura Espinoza's NCAA single-season home run record, which the latter set at Arizona in 1995.

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And Grant, who was selected with the No. 4 overall pick in the AUSL draft by the Portland Cascade, isn't done yet.

One of the premier batters in the 2026 NCAA Softball Tournament, she'll look to continue an impressive streak through the postseason, where the No. 8 seed UCLA bruins hope to make a deep run through the regionals and super regionals to the Women's College World Series.

Grant is hitting a career-high .515 at the plate to rank sixth in the country, adding 107 RBIs in 167 at-bats and scoring a nation-leading 1.216 slugging percentage. But the Bruins' senior isn't alone in her quest for college softball immortality, either.

She was tied with Oklahoma's Kendall Wells at home run No. 36 going into the final week of the regular season before she overtook the Sooners freshman. Wells' recent struggles at the plate allowed Grant to move ahead of her and make softball history.

The question now is whether Grant can keep it going and hold onto the single-season record, potentially becoming the first player in NCAA history to slug 40 home runs in a season. Or will someone, like Wells, find her swing again in the postseason and give Grant a run for her money?