2025: Started 61 of 62 games…Recorded 133 at-bats, driving in six runs across the season…Led the Gauchos in stolen bases with 13…Recorded four multi-hit games…Recorded career-highs in runs scored, hits, doubles, RBIs, total bases, walks and stolen bases.
2024: Appeared in and started 47 of 48 games for the Gauchos…Hit .177 in 96 at-bats on the season, secured 17 hits with four runs batted in…Finished third on the team in stolen bases, with six.
PRIOR TO UC SANTA BARBARA: Spent two seasons at Oregon State...Competed in 83 games making 35 starts...Member of the 2022 team that made a run to the Women's College World Series...Recorded 23 hits and stole nine bases...Named to College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District Team in 2023.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Los Alamitos High School...Earned four varsity letters...Named Orange County High School All-Star in 2021...Ranked No. 73 in 2021 Extra Innings Softball Top 100...Won the Dave Kops Tournament of Champions in 2018 and 2020...Three-time Sunset League Champion...Appeared in the CIF Playoffs in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Kathleen Mendoza and Steve Mendoza...Has an older brother, Andrew Mendoza...Plans to study communications...Roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers...Her most memorable sports moment was the 2022 Postseason run with Oregon State to the Women's College World Series...Her favorite TV show is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel...Her hobbies include drawing, hiking and any type of craft.
