Softball: Cavaliers add grad transfer Bressler from UNLV
Posted on Thursday, Jun. 30, 2022, 4:46 pm
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Virginia head softball coach Joanna Hardin announced the addition of graduate transfer Jenny Bressler to the program on Thursday. Bressler, a right-handed pitcher, will join the Cavaliers for the 2022-23 academic year.
“We are so excited to add Jenny to the UVA softball family,” Hardin said. “She is a great fit for our program and her experience and success at UNLV is a huge addition to our bullpen. We are grateful she will finish out her collegiate career as a Cavalier.”
Bressler will join the Virginia program after a four-year career at UNLV that saw her post a 78-22 record through 131 appearances. She tallied a career 1.90 ERA with 599 strikeouts and only allowed 213 walks through her 617.1 career innings of work. In her time in the circle, she held opponents to a .220 batting average against. She also posted 12 saves in her career to set the UNLV career mark. Bressler tallied 50 complete games and 24 shutouts.
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This past season, Bressler set the UNLV single-season saves record with six. Her 78 career wins is second all-time at UNLV and her 599 career strikeouts is fourth all-time at UNLV. Her 225 strikeouts last year as a senior set the single-season mark at UNLV – passing the mark set by three-time Olympic champion Lori Harrigan in 1991. Bressler’s career winning percentage of .781 is the best in UNLV and Mountain West history.
As a freshman at UNLV, Bressler was named an NFCA All-Region first team selection and Mountain West All-Conference first team selection. She followed that up with Mountain West All-Conference first-team honors again as a sophomore in a COVID shortened season and for a third time as a junior. This past season, she was an NFCA All-Region third team selection and Mountain West All-Conference first team selection.
She is a three-time Mountain West Scholar Athlete honoree and three-time Spring Academic All-Mountain West honoree. She is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection and was a 2021 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete. Bressler will be pursuing a masters in accounting in the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA.
Bressler joins a Cavalier squad that will also welcome the No. 15-ranked signing class to Grounds in the fall. Virginia is coming off a sixth-place finish in the ACC standings last season and advanced to the National Invitational Softball Championship and tied the program record for ACC wins in a season. Virginia also posted the most wins in a season since that 2010 season.
