WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue softball head coach Magali Frezzotti has added a trio of transfers with the signing transfer pitcher, Malone Moore, transfer catcher, Gabriela Sosa, and transfer pitcher, Brooke Perez.
The Indiana native, Moore, will join the Boilermakers after spending her freshman year down south at Coastal Carolina. Sosa joins Purdue from San Antonio, Texas, after a stellar year at Paris Junior College. Perez comes from the west to the midwest after spending three seasons at UC Riverside.
Moore, a Beech Grove, Ind. native, made five appearances in the circle for Coastal, with one start, while recording three strikeouts. Moore pitched a season and career-high three innings against North Carolina and recorded a perfect outing with one strikeout in one relief inning against Charleston Southern.
Sosa joins the Boilermakers after a record-setting season at PJC, hitting 41 home runs while helping her team to a NJCAA Regional Championship. Sosa was named the NJCAA Conference and Region 14 Player of the Year after slugging for 1.209 with 115 RBI. Sosa finished her career at PJC as the NJCAA all-time home run leader.
Perez finished the 2025 season with 26 strikeouts through 68.1 innings on the mound. She holds a career 3.56 ERA after posting a 3.00 in her debut season. In her career, Perez has worked 224.0 innings with 92 strikeouts. In 2023, Perez was the first freshman pitcher since 2006 to reach 10 wins as a Highlander. She was named All-Big West Honorable Mention, and to the freshman team.
The transfers are joining a Boilermaker program that recorded its first winning season in five years, going 30-23 and making it to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament: the first-ever 12 seed to do so. The Boilers also set a program record in final RPI, finishing at 47. With 10 upperclassmen, an incoming class of six talented freshman, and three experienced transfers, the Boilers look to continue the momentum into the 2026 season.