Maya Brady is just 11 games into the 2026 AUSL season and she's already nearing a record no one has reached.
The Oklahoma City Spark utility player currently leads the AUSL with five home runs and 11 RBIs. Her batting average lands her in the league's Top 10, keeping all three Triple Crown categories in play.
Brady additionally ranks high in on-base percentage (.575) while leading the league in runs scored (13). She has recorded a hit in every professional matchup she's played — a 16-game streak stretching back to her 2025 debut with the Utah Talons.
Maya Brady Faces AUSL Triple Crown Challengers
Despite Brady's grip on the standings, the competition for the Triple Crown remains tight.
Veteran Chicago Bandits slugger Sami Williams matches Brady's RBI count while trailing close behind in batting average (.467) and home runs (three). Elsewhere, Carolina Blaze rookie Reese Atwood follows with eight RBIs and a .450 batting average.
Brady joined the Spark as the No. 1 overall pick in December's Expansion Draft. With more than a third of the season complete, she holds the edge in all three Triple Crown categories. Winning the title would be a first for the second-year pro softball league — if she manages to keep pace.
Her team, however, has ground to make up.
Oklahoma City lost to the defending champion Utah Talons on Monday, with pitcher Montana Fouts holding Brady's side to four hits. The defeat dropped Oklahoma to 5-6 on the season.
Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) stocked up by adding 43 former NCAA and Olympic stars to its ranks on Monday night, with Talons utility player Maya Brady — niece of retired NFL legend Tom Brady — leading the charge as the No. 1 overall pick by the incoming Oklahoma City Spark in the league's expansion draft.
Starting the inaugural 2025 AUSL campaign on injured reserve, the former UCLA standout went on to feature in six games for the championship-winning Talons, registering one double, one home run, and five RBIs on the season.
The now-six -team league absorbed the previously independent Spark as part of an initial expansion plan, acquiring the Oklahoma City-based squad with the intention of finding permanent homes for all AUSL teams in the near future.
Also joining the AUSL next year is new franchise Cascade, which snagged Volts pitcher and former University of Oklahoma ace Sam Landry as the No. 2 overall pick on Monday.
Though the four original teams protected five players each, the Spark and Cascade raided their rosters in the expansion draft, claiming stars like infielders Sydney Romero (Talons) and Jessi Warren (Volts) as well as pitchers Alana Vawter (Blaze) and Payton Gottshall (Volts) for their debut lineups.
Immediately following the expansion draft, all six teams took part in an allocation draft, selecting athletes from either the 2025 AUSL Reserve Pool or those previously competing outside the league.
Former Oklahoma and Oklahoma State pitcher Kelly Maxwell earned the top pick in the allocation draft, with the new Cascade player joined by other recent NCAA softball legends like former Sooners Kinzie Hansen, Jayda Coleman, and Jocelyn Alo, Florida State's Kat Sandercock and Sydney Sherrill, Washington's Sis Bates, and Clemson's Valerie Cagle.