How Maya Brady Carried the Family Name into the Next Generation

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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With all of the energy surrounding women’s basketball these days, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the interest in women’s sports is growing beyond just the hardwood. We’ve seen a professional women’s hockey league return to the ice this season, stars continue to shine on the tennis courts and the track. And interest in the Women’s College World Series has steadily increased year over year leading to an average of two million fans tuning in to the most watched title series ever. So today, Jake Trotter, who covers college sports at ESPN, introduces us to Maya Brady, a prolific shortstop at UCLA, who just completed a decorated college career on the softball field. And Jake tells us why Maya’s rise is about more than just her shared family lineage with her uncle, one Tom Brady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Jake Trotter, let's just start here.
0:03.2	Who are Maya and Maureen Brady?
0:05.6	Maya Brady was one of the country's best college softball players.
0:09.6	Jake Trotter covers college sports for ESPN.
0:12.4	He recently got to chat one-on-one with Maya Brady. Trotter covers college sports for E-SPN.
0:12.5	He recently got to chat one-on-one with Maya Brady.
0:15.3	So tell me your name, position in the school you play for?
0:22.8	Yeah, Maya Brady, shortstop, and UCLA.
0:26.1	Her mom was this amazing pitcher.
0:28.2	I just fell in love with it at like five years old,
0:30.5	and that's kind of like all I did was just place off while I just
0:34.4	wanted to play softball all the time. And her mom's brother is Tom Brady who
0:39.6	obviously needs no introduction. Toss the White.
0:44.0	He's in!
0:47.0	Patriots win the Super Bowl.
0:49.0	Brady has his fifth.
0:52.0	Okay, so Tom Brady, who is, was a decent football player.
0:56.8	His niece is now one of the best softball players in the country.
1:02.0	What kind of person did you find when you actually talked her?
1:05.0	Talking to Maya, it's like her uncle, who we think of is the greatest quarterback in
1:10.5	NFL history, won seven Super Bowls. Her uncle is just her uncle.
1:15.0	But I think now we're all known as Maya Brady's uncle and Maya Brady's mom and she's
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