Madilyn "Bubba" Ida-Marie Nickles (born March 8, 1998) is an American, former collegiate All-American,

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. She played

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for the

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and won a national championship in

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. She represented the

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at the

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and won a silver medal.

Career

Nickles competes with the

softball team and has been named a two-time Second Team and First Team All-

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player. She was also chosen a National Fastpitch Coaches Association First Team All-American as a junior, where she also helped lead the Bruins to the 2019 NCAA Division I National Championship.

Team USA

Nickles played for two seasons with Team USA and was named to the roster for the

, where she won a silver medal Nickles had a hit in two appearances during the tournament. Nickles did not play in the gold medal game, where Team USA was defeated by Team Japan 2–0.

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* 1998 births Living people UCLA Bruins softball players Sportspeople from Merced, California Softball players from California Olympic softball players for the United States Softball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in softball Olympic medalists in softball Competitors at the 2022 World Games World Games gold medalists World Games medalists in softball {{US-softball-bio-stub