There and back again: UCLA star plays softball, jets to hoops celebration in same day
When she went to sleep Saturday night, Megan Grant had accepted the fact that she wasn’t going to be able to make it to Phoenix for the women’s national championship game. The two-sport UCLA athlete was a member of both the women’s basketball and softball teams in 2025-26. In the fall, she juggled both fall softball and basketball’s preseason and nonconference schedule.
She played 33 minutes over 14 games and scored six total points in basketball for the eventual national champions, but left the team shortly after winter break. She left because she has a full-time commitment to the softball team, where she is a two-time All-American. So when she looked at Sunday’s schedule and saw a UCLA softball game against Indiana at noon (PT) in Los Angeles, and the women’s basketball national championship game starting just a half hour later in Phoenix, Grant accepted that her commitment lay with softball.
“Megan believed in her heart that she had done what she needed to do for them earlier in the year,” said her mother, Christine Grant. “So she was very happy and content to be at softball. “I said, ‘Are you sure, Megan?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. ’ She’s like, ‘Mom, I’m good. My heart is full, I’m good.
I poured everything I could. ’” But by 5 p. m.
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