Rachel Garcia
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| Born | March 30, 1997 Lancaster, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017–2021 | UCLA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025–present | Volts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022 | San Diego State (Volunteer asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | UC San Diego (Pitching) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rachel Lauren Garcia (born March 30, 1997) is an American professional softball player for the Volts of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL). She previously served as the pitching coach for UC San Diego. She played college softball for the UCLA Bruins and led the Bruins to the 2019 Women's College World Series championship, where she was named the Most Outstanding Player.
Garcia won the Honda Sports Award, USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and NFCA National Player of the Year as the nation's best softball player in 2018 and 2019, and the Honda Cup as the nation's top female athlete in 2019 and 2021. Garcia represented Team USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal. She was named one of the NCAA's greatest all-time pitchers. She was also voted to the Greatest College Softball Team at the utility position by fans and experts. Garcia was drafted first overall in the Athletes Unlimited Softball draft in 2021.