Career Highlights
• All-Pac-12 First Team (2024)
• Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2023)
• NFCA West All-Region First Team (2024)
• 2-time Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week (last April 22, 2024)
• NFCA National Pitcher of the Week (April 23, 2024)
• D1Softball National Pitcher of the Week (April 23, 2024)
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Feb. 13, 2023)

2024
Tinsley was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team and NFCA West All-Region First Team in her sophomore season … led the Bruins’ pitching staff with a 1.90 earned run average and 166 strikeouts … culminated an 18-8 record and pitched 147.1 total innings over 22 starts and 12 relief appearances … ranked second in the Pac-12 in ERA (1.90) and K/7 (7.88) and third in strikeouts (166) … ranked second in the Pac-12 and ninth in the NCAA with a 6.38 K/BB ratio … earned three saves … limited the opposition to a .239 batting average … named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week twice and the NFCA National Pitcher of the Week once on April 23 … posted three double-digit strikeout performances … earned wins all three games of a season-turning sweep at then-Pac-12 leader and fifth-ranked Stanford … went the distance for a 9.0-inning shutout and struck out a career-high 15 batters in a game one win at Stanford (April 19) … came on in relief in games two and three at Stanford, allowing just two hits over 6.2 innings in the wins (April 20-21) … over the three games, limited Stanford to just seven hits and struck out 20 batters over 15.2 scoreless innings while holding the Cardinal to 0-for-17 with RISP, earning her NFCA National Pitcher of the Week honors … posted a 3-0 record and 1.91 ERA over 22.0 innings and six appearances in her postseason debut … earned back-to-back complete-game victories against Grand Canyon in the NCAA Regional final and No. 14 Georgia NCAA Super Regional final after a two-week stretch in which she was limited due to injury … 98 days after surrendering a career-high in earned runs to Georgia, Tinsley limited their offense to just one run to punch UCLA’s ticket to the Women’s College World Series … allowed one earned run or less in four of her eight losses … pitched a complete-game, struck out eight and allowed just one earned run in a loss to No. 8 Texas (Feb. 9) … allowed just two earned runs across three complete-game performances and 22.0 total innings at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic (Feb. 23-25) … among all pitchers from the 30 teams competing at the Mary Nutter, Tinsley ranked first in innings pitched (22.0) and strikeouts looking (10) and tied for first in strikeouts (30) … struck out nine and allowed just three hits in a CG SHO against No. 24 Northwestern (Feb. 23) … allowed no earned runs and struck out 11 in a complete-game loss to Baylor (Feb. 24) … struck out nine in a complete-game victory over No. 5 Tennessee (Feb. 25) … struck out seven and allowed just one run in a complete-game loss to No. 13 Florida (March 1) … K’d nine batters and allowed just two hits and no runs in a win over Utah (March 8) … struck out seven batters over 4.0 innings in game two against Utah (March 9) … struck out 12 batters and allowed just one run on three hits and one walk in a complete-game victory against Oregon State (April 5) … struck out nine and allowed just one run against No. 20 California (April 12) … made three relief appearances and totaled 8.2 innings pitched at the Women’s College World Series … allowed just one run at the WCWS and struck out five batters.

2023
Tinsley was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team, posting a 6-1 record with a 1.47 earned run average over 57.1 innings in her first season as a Bruin … made 13 starts and seven relief appearances … pitched three complete-game shutouts … totaled 48 strikeouts … allowed 53 hits and 19 runs, including 12 earned … became the first Bruin since Amanda Freed to pitch a no-hitter in their first career pitching appearance, tossing a no-no versus CSU Bakersfield in her collegiate debut (Feb. 11) … earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors (Feb. 13) … pitched four solid innings versus Iowa at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, striking out six batters and allowing just one run (Feb. 24) … pitched a complete-game shutout with eight strikeouts versus Texas A&M the next day (Feb. 25) … threw three scoreless innings in her start and win against Cal Poly at the Judi Garman Classic (March 4) … followed that with five more scoreless innings in her next start versus Howard, striking out seven and allowing just two hits (March 7) … pitched two innings of shutout relief at No. 19 Oregon (March 26) … tossed four innings of shutout ball to earn the win versus No. 6 Stanford (April 2) … was one out away from a no-hitter in her start at Long Beach State, finishing with a five-inning, complete-game shutout (April 19).

George Walton Academy
Tinsley was a three-sport star at George Walton Academy in Lawrenceville, Ga., playing four years of softball, two years of basketball and two years of golf … ranked the No. 1 pitcher and No. 2 overall recruit in the 2021 class by Softball America … ranked the No. 2 pitcher and overall recruit by Extra Innings Softball … two-time winner of the Walton Tribune Athlete of the Year award in 2021 and 2019 … awarded First Team All-State for Class-A Private, First Team All-Region 8A, First Team All-County and George Walton Academy Best of the Best Award four times in her high school career for each accolade … three-time Region 8A Pitcher of the Year … named Georgia Dugout Club Pitcher of the Year in 2021 … compiled a 49-18 record, 0.72 earned run average, 842 strikeouts in 449.2 innings pitched in her high school career … led George Walton Academy to a Region 8-A Private championship her junior season in 2021 … her sophomore year in 2019, she struck out 21 batters in an 11-inning game to defeat Tattnall Square Academy of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) State Championship Tournament … coached by Kathrine Meeks … played club ball for the GA Bombers under coach Patrick Lewis … named to the 2021 PGF All-American Team after two impressive showings at the PGF National Tournament in Summer 2021 for the Georgia Impact … struck out 100 batters in 57.2 innings with just four walks and a 1.40 ERA with Georgia Impact.
 
Personal
Born Taylor Nicole Tinsley in Snellville, Ga. … parents are Denise and Keith Tinsley … has one sister, Patrice … decided to attend UCLA because “I wanted to be in an environment that would push me to be the best version of myself” … greatest athletic thrill was striking out 21 batters to defeat Tattnall Square Academy in extra innings of the GHSA State Championship Tournament … famous athlete she admires is Serena Williams … hobbies include traveling, journaling, doodling and painting … favorites include the Atlanta Braves, late actor Chadwick Boseman, the movies Lion King and Lion King 2 and the show “Stranger Things” … majoring in psychobiology … pursuing a career in physical therapy.

Taylor Tinsley's Pitching Game Highs 

INNINGS PITCHED	9.0, at Stanford (4/19/24)
STRIKEOUTS	15, at Stanford (4/19/24)
HITS ALLOWED	11, Two Times (last at Washington, 3/23/24)
RUNS ALLOWED	7, vs. Oklahoma State (2/11/24)
EARNED RUNS ALLOWED	6, vs. Georgia (2/16/24)

Taylor Tinsley's Career No-Hitters (1)
2/11/23 vs. CSU Bakersfield (5.0 IP, 0 R, 4 SO, 0 BB, 1 E) | Box Score | Recap