Brandee McArthur played four years of softball at Pacific under head coach Brian Kolze.
As a freshman in 1996, McArthur earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region honors after winning 17 games with a 1.55 ERA. She was also a Second Team All-Big West Conference selection as a pitcher and a First Team choice as a utility player after hitting .292. In her second year at Pacific, McArthur racked up 10 wins and an ERA of 1.72 in just 19 games. She earned Second Team All-Big West honors once again after a 16-win season and a 1.64 ERA in her junior season.
McArthur earned NFCA All-America Second Team honors following her senior season in 1999, after leading the Tigers to their second consecutive NCAA Regional appearance. As a senior, McArthur had a career-best 0.93 ERA and recorded 260 strikeouts, the second-highest single season total in program history. She was 22-12 that year, pitching 12 shutouts for the Tigers, the fourth best single season mark. She faced 1,041 batters in 1999, the most batters any Pacific pitcher has faced in a single season. She also had two of her three career no-hitters in 1999, with a 1-0 win over Creighton on March 10 and a 6-0 no-hit victory over New Mexico State on April 11. Her first career no-hitter came on April 7, 1998 in a 2-0 victory over Saint Mary’s. McArthur still holds the top two strikeout games in Tiger history, with 16 against Southern Illinois on March 17, 1999 and 15 against Loyola Marymount on Feb. 19, 1999.
McArthur’s 65 victories in the circle sparked Pacific to 124 victories during her four seasons as a Tiger, being the pitcher of record in more than half of the Tigers’ wins during her time at Pacific. Her legacy remains intact in the Tiger record book, as she ranks in the career top 10 in 16 different categories. Among those career rankings, she ranks third in victories (65), ninth in ERA (1.39), second in strikeouts (568) and second in shutouts (31). She also finished with a career batting average of .279, finishing with 175 hits and 15 home runs.
Following her outstanding Pacific career, McArthur went on to play professional softball, including in 2001 in the Italian League where she led the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts. She then pitched in the National Pro Fastpitch League. As of 2011, she ranked 12th in all-time wins in the National Pro Fastpitch League with 32
