• Led by one of the nation's most powerful offenses and best pitching staffs, the 2019 Wildcats made the program's return to the Women's College World Series for the 23rd time in school history and first since 2010.
• Arizona finished tied for fifth at the WCWS and was ranked No. 5 in the final poll, its highest final ranking since 2010. 
• The Cats finished the season 48-14, including a 19-5 Pac-12 slate, good for a third place finish, one game out of first. Arizona finished the regular season 42-12 while playing the nation's second-hardest schedule (.647 cumulative winning percentage). When the Cats reached the Women's College World Series, they had played each of the other seven teams in the WCWS during the regular season, the nation's first team to do so since Arizona in 2000.
• Arizona went 6-2 in the postseason, including sweeps of the Tucson Regional (3-0) and Tucson Super Regional (2-0). The Cats went 1-2 at the Women's College Series, defeating third-seeded Washington (3-1, 8 innings) in the opener before falling to eventual national champion UCLA (6-2) and Alabama (2-0) to end their season.
• The Wildcats' trip to the NCAA Tournament was their 33rd consecutive trip, the longest streak in NCAA softball history. Arizona's 23 WCWS appearances are second nationally to only UCLA's 29. No other school has more than 14.
• Arizona was one of the most well-rounded teams in the country this season. Arizona was one of two teams (Oklahoma) in the NCAA to be top 10 in ERA (6th - 1.61), scoring (9th - 6.48) and fielding percentage (8th - .976). This marks the first time since 2004 that the Wildcats finished top 10 in all three categories. 
• Arizona had five All-Americans, including three first-teamers, both the second most in the country and the most at Arizona since 2001. Pitcher Taylor McQuillin, catcher Dejah Mulipola and outfielder Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza were named first-team All-Americans while second baseman Reyna Carranco and shortstop Jessie Harper were named to the second team.
• Taylor McQuillin and Dejah Mulipola became Arizona's first first-team All-American battery since 1998 (Nancy Evans and Leah Braatz).
• Junior Jessie Harper led the NCAA with 29 home runs in 2019, fourth most in a season in Arizona history, tied for fifth in Pac-12 history and tied for 13th in NCAA history. Harper, a second-team All-American, became the first Wildcat to lead the NCAA homers since 2009 (Stacie Chambers - 31) and the 10th overall in UA history.
• Harper will enter her senior season with 66 career home runs, already seventh most in school history and tied for ninth most in Pac-12 history. Her 66 homers are fifth most in NCAA history for players after their first three seasons. Arizona career record holder Katiyana Mauga had 67 after her junior season and finished with 92 career homers, second most in NCAA history behind Oklahoma's Lauren Chamberlain's 95; Chamberlain entered her senior year with 72 homers. 
• The Wildcats finished second nationally with 110 home runs, the third most homers in school history and ninth most in NCAA history.
• Dejah Mulipola was named the NFCA National Catcher of the Year and the Johnny Bench Catcher of the Year. She is the first Wildcat since Leah Braatz (1997/1998) to be named NFCA National Catcher of the Year and the first ever UA backstop to be named Johnny Bench Catcher of the Year.
• Arizona's 48 wins were good for the program's 31st 40-win season in the last 33. UA's 19 conference victories were the most since going 19-2 to win the 2003 Pac-10 Championship.
• Arizona's offense finished top 20 in the NCAA in home runs per game (2nd - 1.77), slugging percentage (6th - .570), scoring (9th - 6.48), batting average (15th - .318) and on-base percentage (20th - .398). 
• In 24 conference games, the Wildcats outscored their Pac-12 opponents 171-40 and led the Pac-12 with a 1.59 ERA in league games. Arizona's 7.13 runs/game were its sixth most in school conference history and most since scoring 8.29 runs/Pac-12-game in 2015. Meanwhile, UA's 40 runs surrendered were its fewest surrendered in conference play since 2004 (21).

ARIZONA ALL-TIME AT THE WOMEN'S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: Arizona made its 23rd trip to the Women's College World Series, second most to only UCLA's 29. The Wildcats returned to the promised land for the first time since 2010. After a 1-2, fifth-place showing in OKC in 2019, Arizona is 62-34 all-time at the Women's College World Series and has won eighth national championships -- 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2007 -- second in NCAA history to UCLA's 11.

	Team	NCAA Championships			Team	WCWS Record
1	UCLA	12		1	UCLA	103-37
2	Arizona	8		2	Arizona	62-33
3	Oklahoma	4		3	Fresno State	30-23
4	Arizona State	2		4	Oklahoma	32-20
	Florida	2		5	Washington	29-26
	Texas A&M	2

ARIZONA ALL-TIME IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: Arizona made its 33rd consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, the longest streak in the sport's history and the longest active streak by seven years. The Wildcats have a 173-63 record all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including a 95-12 mark in regionals, 15-17 record in super regionals and a 62-33 showing in the Women's College World Series. Arizona has appeared in every NCAA Tournament since 1987, Mike Candrea's second season on campus. In those 33 trips, UA has appeared in the Women's College World Series in 23 of them, winning the national championship eight times.

	Team	Consecutive NCAA Tournaments (Total)			Team	NCAA Tournament Record
1	Arizona	33 (33)		1	UCLA	228-58
2	Oklahoma	26 (26)		2	Arizona	173-63
	Washington	26 (26)		3	Oklahoma	125-50
4	Michigan	25 (27)		4	Washington	121-53
5	4 tied	21		5	California	103-73

            
ARIZONA RAKES IN POSTSEASON AWARDS

• Five Wildcats were named NFCA All-Americans, second most in the country this season and most at Arizona since 2000. The five All-Americans brought Arizona to 105 in school history.
• Arizona placed seven players on both the all-Pac-12 and NFCA all-West Region teams. Arizona's seven all-region players (as well as its six first-teamers) were second most in the NCAA this season.
• Tamara Statman, a second-team Academic All-American, became Arizona's first Academic All-American since 2010. She highlighted Arizona's extensive academic recogntions.
• Awards:

Player	All-America	All-Pac-12	All-Region	Academic All-America	Pac-12 All-Academic	Academic All-District
Taylor McQuillin	1st	1st	1st	-	HM	-
Dejah Mulipola	1st	1st (d)	1st	-	HM	-
Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza	1st	1st (d)	1st	-	-	-
Reyna Carranco	2nd	1st (d + bc)	1st	-	HM	-
Jessie Harper	2nd	1st (d)	1st	-	1st	1st
Malia Martinez	-	2nd	1st	-	2nd	-
Alyssa Denham	-	3rd	-	-	-	-
Rylee Pierce	-	-	3rd	-	-	-
Gina Snyder	-	-	-	-	1st	-
Tamara Statman	-	-	-	2nd	1st	1st
Hanah Bowen	-	-	-	-	HM	-
		(d) = Pac-12 All-Defense
		(bc) = Pac-12 Batting Champion

A CLASS OF ITS OWN

• Arizona was led by its junior class, a collection of six players putting up other-worldly numbers this season. All six UA juniors were named to the all-Pac-12 this year.
• Offensively, Arizona's five junior hitters hit a combined .357 this season with 90 home runs and 289 RBI. If they were their own team, they would have led the country in batting average and be seventh in home runs. Their 284 combined RBI is more than 238 of the 295 Division I teams scored all season.
• Four of the five junior hitters had 14 or more homers, marking the first time Arizona has had four players with at least 14 home runs since 2014 and the first time in school history that four players of the same class accomplished it. Jessie Harper led the nation with 29 homers, Dejah Mulipola finished tied for fourth with 23, Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza tied for 18th with 19 and Malia Martinez is tied for 68th with 14.
• In the circle, Alyssa Denham has excelled in her role as UA's No. 2 pitcher. The third-team all-Pac-12 pitcher went 13-6 with a 1.94 ERA while holding opponents to a .182 average. She threw UA's only no-hitter this season (3/24 at Oregon State on her 21st birthday) and picked up complete-game victories in both Arizona's regional-clinching game vs. Auburn (5/19) and super-regional-clinching game vs. Ole Miss (5/25).       

BATTLE TESTED

• Arizona was the first WCWS team since 2000 (also Arizona) to have played each of the other seven WCWS teams during the regular season. Including its win vs. Washington in Oklahoma City, the Wildcats won five total games vs. Women's College World Series teams.
• Arizona's regular season opponents finished the season with a combined .647 winning percentage. That was the second hardest schedule in the country.
• UA won 15 games vs. ranked foes, matching its 2017 total as the most in the last nine years.
• Since 1994, Arizona is above .500 against ranked teams, top-10 teams and top-five competition. UA is 579-273-1 (.679) against ranked competition, 269-185 (.593) against top-10 teams and 133-132 (.502) against top-five teams.

THE NCAA LEADER IN HOME RUNS

• Jessie Harper led the NCAA with 29 home runs, the fourth most homers in a season in Arizona history, tied for fifth most in Pac-12 history and tied for 13th in a season in NCAA history.
• Harper becomes the 10th player to lead the NCAA in home runs in Arizona history and first since Stacie Chambers in 2009.

    1994    Laura Espinoza (30)
    1995    Laura Espinoza (37 - NCAA record)
    1996    Jenny Dalton (25)
    1997    Leah Braatz (21)
    1998    Leah Braatz (25 - tie)
    2001    Toni Mascarenas (25)
    2002    Leneah Manuma (21)
    2003    Lovie Jung (25 - tie)
    2009    Stacie Chambers (31)
    2019    Jessie Harper (29)

• Harper will enter her senior year with 66 career home runs, already seventh most in school history and tied for ninth most in Pac-12 history. She is just the fourth Wildcat to hit her 60th career home run during her junior season; the other three are all in the top six in NCAA history in career homers.
• Harper is one of 10 players in NCAA history to reach 60 career homers during her junior season (fourth Wildcat).

	Player, School (Years)	HR in 1st 3 years	Career Total (Place in NCAA History)
1	Lauren Chamberlain, Oklahoma (12-15)	72	95 (1st)
2	Stacey Nuveman, UCLA (97-02)	70	90 (3rd)
3	Katiyana Mauga, Arizona (14-17)	67	92 (2nd)
	Stacie Chambers, Arizona (08-11)	67	87 (4th)
5	Jessie Harper, Arizona (17-)	66	-
6	Sierra Romero, Michigan (13-16)	63	82 (10th)
7	Jessie Warren, Florida State (15-18)	62	83 (8th)
	Alex Hugo, Georgia (13-16)	62	71 (20th)
9	Leah Braatz, Arizona (94-98)	60	85 (5th)
	Shelby Pendley, Oklahoma (12-15)	60	84 (7th)

  

• Harper's 60th home run occurred in her 171st career game, third fastest in school history behind Katiyana Mauga (157 games) and Stacie Chambers (166 games).
• The junior finished second in the Pac-12 and sixth nationally with 70 RBI, the most by a Wildcat since Chelsea Goodacre (86) and Katiyana Mauga (76) in 2015.
• Harper had five multi-homer games this season and now has 13 in her career, including her first careeer three-homer game vs. Auburn in the regional championship when she collected 14 total bases, an Arizona, Pac-12 and NCAA Tournament record. Her five hits vs. Auburn marked UA's first five-hit game since 2009 (Sam Banister vs. Texas A&M) and her three homers tied an Arizona record (most recently: Hallie Wilson vs. Stanford, 2015).
• Arizona is 48-4 in her career when Harper homers and 70-8 when she records an extra-base hit.
• Tied for the Pac-12 lead in extra-base hits (39) with Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza this season after leading the conference with 34 XBH last season.
• Harper was named a second-team NFCA All-American, good for her second career All-America honor; she was named a first-team All-American as a freshman in 2017.

CROWN HER

• Reina means "queen" in spanish, and this season, Reyna Carranco lived up to her name, winning the Pac-12 batting crown with a .433 regular season average. Carranco became the first Wildcat to win the Pac-12 Batting Champion award, given to the conference player with the highest regular season batting average, since the conference began issuing it in 2015.
• Carranco was named a second-team All-American, good for her first career All-America honor. She added first-team all-conference, all-region and Pac-12 all-defensive honors as well in 2019.
• Carranco, Arizona's normal second baseman and No. 2 hitter in the lineup, is still working back from a broken left hand and right thumb suffered on May 4 when she was hit by a pitch vs. Washington. She returned to start UA's final seven games of the postseason as the Wildcats' designated player. She is trying to become the first Wildcat to hit .420 or better since Brittany Lastrapes (.481) in 2009.
• Carranco reached base in every game from Feb. 28 to Arpil 7, a 24-game reached-base streak, which included a 15-game hitting streak. Both of those are the longest by a Wildcat this season and longest since Hallie Wilson's 19-game hitting streak/29 game reached-base streak in 2015. Overall, Carranco has reached base in 45 of the 54 games she saw action in this season and has a hit in 40 of them.
• Carranco had multiple hits in nearly half of the games she played in (27-of-57) including a team-most five three-hit games. Her 27 multi-hit games are the most by an Arizona player since Brittany Lastrapes (32)and Lauren Schutzler (27) in 2010.

NEW DIGS, SAME CROWD

• Arizona's fans have long been among the best in the country, filling Hillenbrand Stadium since it was originally built in 1993. The Wildcats have led the country in attendance seven times and are currently second in the NCAA this season.
• In the first season of renovated Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium, UA averaged 2,587 fans per date this season, second to Alabama's 2,717. Arizona finished just short of its its school record of 2,591 fans per date in 2011.
• Arizona sold out 11 of its 12 Pac-12 games this season and all five postseason games.

THE CHASE FOR HISTORY: Two legends, two Hall of Famers, Arizona's Mike Candrea and Michigan's Carol Hutchins, are battling it out to become the winningest coach in the sport's history. Hutchins and Michigan have been eliminated, so Candrea and Arizona would need five wins in Oklahoma City to catch her.

• This season, Candrea became the first coach in NCAA softball history to reach 1,600 Division I victories. Candrea trails only Michigan's Carol Hutchins in NCAA history. Candrea's victories have occurred over 32 years of coaching at Arizona (his record does not include UA's 2004 and 2008 records when he was coaching the Olympic team) while Hutchins is in her 36th year (including a season in NCAA Division II).
• Candrea is the fastest coach in NCAA history, in any sport, in any division, to record 1,600 career wins.
• Earlier this season, Candrea moved into fifth all-time in NCAA Division I victories (across all sports).

Winningest NCAA Softball Coaches

1	Carol Hutchins (Ferris State 1982; Michigan 1983-)	1,615-517-5 (.765)
2	Mike Candrea (Arizona 1986-2003, 05-07, 09-)	1,611-418-2 (.794)
3	Margie Wright (Illinois State 1980-85; Fresno State 1886-2012)	1,457-542-3 (.729)

HOME RUN U

• Arizona finished second in the NCAA with 110 home runs, third most in a season in UA history, marking the seventh time the Wildcats have hit 100 home runs in a season. No other school has more than three seasons with 100+ homers.
• Jessie Harper (29 homers - 1st in NCAA) and Dejah Mulipola (23 homers - t4th in NCAA) became the first teammates with 23-plus homers since a pair of duos did it in 2014: Arizona's Katiyana Mauga (26) and Chelsea Goodacre (24) and Oklahoma's Shelby Pendley (24) and Lauren Chamberlain (23).
• Harper and Mulipola were two of four Wildcats with double-digit homers (Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza: 19; Malia Martinez: 14).
• Harper became Arizona's sixth straight Pac-12 home run leader (or co-leader). Dejah Mulipola finished tied for second in the league, marking the fifth time in the last six years UA has had the runner up (or co-runner up) as well.

2019	1. JESSIE HARPER, Arizona (29)	t2. DEJAH MULIPOLA, Arizona (23)
2018	1. ALYSSA PALOMINO-CARDOZA, Arizona (19)	2. JESSIE HARPER, Arizona (18)
2017	1. Katiyana Mauga, Arizona (25)	2. JESSIE HARPER, Arizona (19)
2016	t1. Katiyana Mauga, Arizona (21)	t1. Ali Aguilar, Washington (21)
2015	1. Katiyana Mauga, Arizona (26)	2. Chelsea Goodacre, Arizona (24)
2014	1. Chelsea Goodacre, Arizona (22)	2. Katiyana Mauga, Arizona (20)

• Arizona has hit 2,196 home runs since softball became a Division I sport in 1982, the most of any team in NCAA history. 
• Arizona has four of the top six home run hitters in NCAA history,  including Katiyana Mauga, who hit a Pac-12 record 92 from 2014-17, three shy of the NCAA record.