Portland Cascade 2026 Roster
Two reigning national-champion Sooners in the circle. UCLA's Megan Grant, who holds the school's career home-run record (91) and the NCAA single-season record (42 in 2026). A three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in Sis Bates. The SEC all-time home-run leader behind the plate in Mia Davidson. Every player, with a full profile.
Portland's inaugural AUSL roster was built through three drafts. The December 2025 Expansion Draft (Cascade and OKC Spark pulling from the four existing 2025 teams) added six players. The December 2025 Allocation Draft (newly signed pros distributed league-wide) added six more. The May 4, 2026 College Draft added the final four (Megan Grant from UCLA at #4 overall, Sydney Stewart from Arizona, Kenzie Brown from Arizona State, Kenleigh Cahalan from Florida). First pitch is June 9 at Carolina. First home game is June 18 at Hillsboro Ballpark.
Each player has a full profile. Tap any name below for their college career, records, and how they got to Portland. AUSL rosters move players between the active roster and the reserve pool through the season; the tags here reflect each player's role in the Cascade organization.
Who's the Pacific Northwest connection?
Sis Bates (#22, infielder, Washington) anchors the PNW link on the active roster: a three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year and Washington's all-time hits leader. Mariah Mazón (Oregon State) adds an Oregon tie in the pitching circle. Paige Sinicki (#38, Oregon '25) was the only University of Oregon product drafted by the Cascade (Allocation Draft, 20th overall), winning the 2024 NFCA Rawlings Gold Glove at shortstop and a share of the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year award, but she opened the 2026 season off the active roster.
Who are the Cascade pitchers?
Sam Landry spent three seasons at Louisiana before transferring to Oklahoma for her final year, and she went out on top: 25-6 with a 1.94 ERA and 186 strikeouts on the Sooners' national-title team. Across her college career she was 88-25 with a 2.07 ERA and 646 strikeouts, earned All-American honors, and was named SEC Newcomer of the Year and First-Team All-SEC. She is one half of Portland's reigning-champion Oklahoma pitching pipeline.
Kelly Maxwell was the No. 1 overall pick of the AUSL Allocation Draft, and the resume backs it up. She pitched at Oklahoma State (two-time All-American, 2022 Co-Big 12 Pitcher of the Year, a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same 2020 season) before transferring to Oklahoma for the 2024 national championship, where she closed out Game 2 of the finals and was named Women's College World Series Most Outstanding Player. A left-handed power arm and the co-ace of the Cascade staff.
Carley Hoover is the veteran of the rotation. At LSU she piled up 754 career strikeouts (fifth in program history) and three no-hitters, and in 2018 went 16-7 with a 1.60 ERA, earning two-time NFCA Third-Team All-America honors. A durable, experienced right-hander for the Cascade circle.
Payton Gottshall pitched three years at Bowling Green before two at Tennessee, and the numbers are absurd: 94-37 with a 1.70 ERA and 1,078 career strikeouts. Her final college season she went 20-5 with a 1.37 ERA and earned First-Team All-SEC and NFCA First-Team All-America honors. A durable, strike-throwing veteran for the Cascade circle.
Kenzie Brown was one of the most dominant arms in college softball in 2025, going 19-8 with a 1.28 ERA and 289 strikeouts, fourth-most in Division I. Over her Arizona State career she was 50-25 with a 2.75 ERA and 676 strikeouts. Portland took her in the third round of the 2026 College Draft to add youth and swing-and-miss to the staff.
Sarah Willis is a right-handed pitcher out of UCF who began her college career at Washington. She joined the Cascade from the AUSL Reserve Pool during the inaugural season, adding depth to the Portland staff.
Mariah Mazón is Oregon State's all-time strikeout leader with 861, went 70-61 with a 2.21 ERA, and led the Beavers to the 2022 Women's College World Series. She is the Oregon tie in the Cascade organization, an Oregon State product close to home.
Who catches for the Cascade?
Mia Davidson owns the SEC all-time home run record with 92, tied for third on the NCAA career list, and she started all 270 games of her Mississippi State career. A First-Team All-American and Catcher of the Year, she brings elite, record-setting power from behind the plate to the Cascade lineup.
Sydney Stewart had a monster final college season, 20 home runs and 76 RBI, and swept up Big 12 Player of the Year, NFCA First-Team All-America, and USA Softball Player of the Year finalist honors. She began at Washington before starring at Arizona, and Portland grabbed her in the second round of the 2026 College Draft to anchor the position for years.
Kelly Torres hit .302 for her Duke career and set the program record with 30 caught-stealing, earning NFCA All-Region honors in 2024. A defense-first catcher in the Cascade organization.
Who plays infield for the Cascade?
Sis Bates might be the best defensive shortstop the college game has produced. She is a three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, a two-time First-Team All-American, Washington's all-time hits leader at a .385 clip, and ESPN named her the greatest college shortstop of all time in 2020. A U.S. national team member and the glove that anchors the Cascade infield.
Tori Vidales is a Texas A&M program leader in runs, RBI, and total bases, a two-time NFCA All-American who hit .355 for her career. She played for Team Mexico at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the 2025 AUSL title with the Utah Talons before Portland selected her in the expansion draft. Veteran corner-infield thump with international pedigree.
Kennedy Powell transferred from UCLA to Texas A&M and led the Aggies with 63 runs while going a perfect 19-for-19 on stolen-base attempts, earning NFCA Central All-Region honors. A table-setting, high-motor infielder who adds speed to the top of the Cascade order.
Kenleigh Cahalan started 254 of a possible 255 career games between Alabama and Florida, hitting .316 with 36 home runs and 178 RBI, and was a two-time Second-Team All-SEC pick. Portland took the steady, power-capable infielder in the fourth round of the 2026 College Draft.
Paige Sinicki is the Oregon Duck on the roster, and one of the best defenders the program has produced. A shortstop out of Henderson, Nevada, she was a four-year starter at shortstop for Oregon, hit .376 as a senior with 32 stolen bases, and became the first Gold Glove winner in Oregon softball history. Diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2025, she returned to the field with the Cascade in 2026, one of the most inspiring stories in the AUSL.
Who plays outfield for the Cascade?
Sierra Sacco-Ferrie led the entire SEC at .450 as a 2025 consensus First-Team All-American, after starting out as Conference USA Freshman of the Year at Louisiana Tech. She hit the first home run in AUSL history in 2025 and was named to the U.S. Women's Elite Team for the 2026 International Cup. A pure hitter atop the Cascade lineup.
Korbe Otis hit .366 with 30 home runs across her college career and led the SEC at .434 as a Florida junior, earning First-Team All-America honors and 2025 SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A polished, all-around outfielder Portland pried loose in the expansion draft.
Kendra Falby started all 261 games of her Florida career, hit .393, and sits second in program history in both hits (337) and stolen bases (118) while setting the school record with 259 runs. A 2025 NFCA Second-Team All-American with back-to-back Gold Gloves, she is speed and defense in center for the Cascade.
Who are the Cascade utility players?
Megan Grant is the headliner of Portland's draft class: UCLA's all-time home run leader with 91, and the holder of the NCAA Division I single-season home run record with 42 in 2026. A three-time NFCA All-American who also played basketball at UCLA, she plays all over the diamond, and Portland spent the fourth overall pick to get the most dangerous bat in the class.
Who is the Portland Cascade head coach?
Tairia Flowers was named the inaugural head coach of the Portland Cascade on December 23, 2025. She won Olympic gold with Team USA at the 2004 Athens Olympics and silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She played first base and catcher at UCLA from 2000 to 2003, winning the 2003 NCAA national championship. Before Portland she spent ten seasons as head coach at Cal State Northridge and was head coach at Loyola Marymount (LMU) since 2021. She also served as an assistant coach for Team USA Softball at the Tokyo Olympics, where the team earned silver.
The league's commissioner, Kim Ng, is the first woman to serve as General Manager of a major American men's professional sports team. She was named the AUSL's first Commissioner on April 16, 2025.
May 4, 2026 College Draft Picks
Portland's four picks in the inaugural AUSL College Draft. The headliner went fourth overall.
Megan Grant is the headline pick. She holds the UCLA career home-run record with 91 and set an NCAA Division I single-season record with 42 home runs in 2026. A utility player who can hit anywhere in the order, she also won an NCAA basketball championship with UCLA in 2025-26 (yes, both sports). The Cascade taking her at #4 means a top-flight power bat for the inaugural season. She is one of the most decorated college softball hitters arriving in pro softball this year.
Sydney Stewart is a catcher who transferred from Washington to Arizona and led the Wildcats in home runs in each of her two seasons there, with 40 total entering the Big 12 Championship. The Cascade now have two catchers (Stewart and Davidson), giving the staff veteran power-bat depth behind the plate.
Kenzie Brown is a right-handed pitcher out of Arizona State, joining a Cascade rotation that already includes Landry, Maxwell, Hoover, and Gottshall. Five arms on the staff means flexibility across a 25-game schedule and back-to-back doubleheader weeks.
Kenleigh Cahalan is a utility player out of Florida, the third Gator on the Cascade alongside Otis and Falby. With Cahalan, Florida is now the most-represented college on the roster.
How was the Cascade roster built?
The AUSL expanded from four teams in 2025 to six in 2026. The roster was built through three drafts:
Expansion Draft (December 2025). Portland Cascade and Oklahoma City Spark selected players protected from the four existing teams: Carolina Blaze, Texas Volts, Utah Talons, and Chicago Bandits. Portland's six picks: Sam Landry, Carley Hoover, Sierra Sacco-Ferrie, Payton Gottshall, Korbe Otis, Tori Vidales.
Allocation Draft (December 2025). Newly signed professional players distributed across all six 2026 teams. Portland's six: Kelly Maxwell (#1 overall), Mia Davidson (#8), Sis Bates (#13), Paige Sinicki (#20), Ali Newland (#26), Kendra Falby (#31).
College Draft (May 4, 2026). Portland's four: Megan Grant (#4 overall), Sydney Stewart (round 2), Kenzie Brown (round 3), Kenleigh Cahalan (round 4). The roster is now at 16 players for the inaugural season.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who plays for the Portland Cascade?
The Portland Cascade active roster. Pitchers: Sam Landry (Oklahoma), Kelly Maxwell (Oklahoma), Carley Hoover (LSU), Payton Gottshall (Tennessee), Kenzie Brown (Arizona State), Sarah Willis (UCF). Catchers: Mia Davidson (Mississippi State), Sydney Stewart (Arizona). Infielders: Sis Bates (Washington), Tori Vidales (Texas A&M), Kennedy Powell (Texas A&M), Kenleigh Cahalan (Florida), Paige Sinicki (Oregon). Outfielders: Sierra Sacco-Ferrie (Mississippi State), Korbe Otis (Florida), Kendra Falby (Florida). Utility: Megan Grant (UCLA).
Who is the only Oregon player on the roster?
Paige Sinicki (#38, infielder) was the only University of Oregon product drafted by the Cascade, though she opened the season off the active roster. Four-year Duck, 219 career starts, 2024 NFCA Gold Glove, 2024 Pac-12 co-Defensive Player of the Year. She played a role in Oregon reaching the 2024 Women's College World Series. Oregon State's Mariah Mazón is on the active roster.
Who has USA National Team experience?
Kelly Maxwell played for Team USA at the 2024 Women's Softball World Cup and won a silver medal. Head coach Tairia Flowers is a two-time Olympic medalist (2004 gold, 2008 silver) and was an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (silver).
Who is the head coach?
Tairia Flowers. 2004 Olympic gold and 2008 Olympic silver medalist. UCLA '03 national champion. Ten seasons as head coach at Cal State Northridge, then head coach at LMU since 2021. Named inaugural Cascade head coach on December 23, 2025.
When does the Portland Cascade season start?
The AUSL regular season opened Tuesday, June 9, 2026, with Cascade at the Carolina Blaze. The Cascade home opener was Thursday, June 18, 2026 at Hillsboro Ballpark vs OKC Spark, a 3-0 win. The 25-game regular season ran through July 18; Portland finished 14-11 and clinched the No. 3 playoff seed.