Katiyana Mauga home runs happen so often they have their own hashtag. Twenty-five hundred fans go crazy, she rounds the bases while her name is echoed throughout Hillenbrand Stadium.
 
#MaugaBomb
 
Every Mauga Bomb this year will bring her closer to history. Arizona fans and NCAA softball fans alike will be tuned into the Kati Watch – how many can she hit?
 
It's a fair question, but she's not really concerned with the answer.
 
"It's my senior year," said Mauga. "I haven't been to the Women's College World Series. That's what I care about."
 
Mauga enters her senior year with 67 career home runs. That's 20 shy of Stacie Chambers' Arizona-record 87 from 2008-11 and 28 shy of Lauren Chamberlain's NCAA-record 95 from 2012-15. With 20, 26 and 21 home runs her freshman, sophomore and junior years, respectively, Mauga is the only player in NCAA history to hit 20 home runs in each of her first three seasons. She's currently sixth in Arizona history and in the NCAA top 30.
 
The numbers tell the story, but really the only numbers Mauga cares about are on the scoreboard, which she routinely pelts with her opposite-field homers. Arizona is 49-9 in games in which Mauga has homered in her career.
 
"I'm focused on giving the team good at-bats," said Mauga. "If the ball goes over the fence, great, but I'm just looking to produce for my team."
 
And produce for her team she has. Since the day she walked on campus, Mauga has been one of the most feared hitters in the nation.
 
She led the league in slugging percentage as a rookie in 2014, and was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.
 
For an encore, Mauga mashed 26 home runs in 2015, third in the NCAA and fifth most in a season in Arizona history. She earned third-team All-America honors.
 
Last season, Mauga underwent a position change, moving from right field to third base, and lost some key lineup protection from the previous two years, but still put up 21 homers and 62 RBI while drawing a career-high 43 walks, 11th-most in a season in Arizona history.
 
Now, the senior sits on the brink of history. Only five players to ever wear the Arizona uniform have more home runs than the San Diego native.
 
Chambers, Laura Espinoza, Leah Braatz, Jenny Dalton, Chelsea Goodacre. 
 
"I think every power hitter is a little bit different, but one thing most of them have in common is great eyes," said head coach Mike Candrea, who has coached three of the top five home run hitters in NCAA history (Chambers, Espinoza, Braatz). "Every hitter has their strength – Espinoza was a front-foot hitter with really good hands. Dalton could see the ball deep and had really good hands. I think Kati is that way too, great hand eye coordination."
 
While she makes the inevitable climb up the charts this season, she will be passing some of the sport's greats, regardless of where she ends up.
 
"It's crazy to hear my name with those players," said Mauga. "But I can't get caught up worrying about where I end up. When it's over, I can enjoy it, but until then I'm just going to savor my senior year. My four years have gone by so fast, I'm going to make sure I get all I can out of my last year here. If I hit a bunch of home runs along the way, that's cool, too."
 
Mauga's 67 homers are the NCAA's active career lead by 10 home runs. Only one other active player in the NCAA has more than 50 career bombs, Auburn's Kasey Cooper, who has hit 10 fewer home runs in nearly 20 more games.
 
She is also second in career walks (108) and third in career RBI (196). Her .806 career slugging percentage leads all active players in the country with at least 400 at-bats.
 
So how high is the bar for Mauga? Consider that an influx of new offensive talent could mean great things for Mauga. Seniors Mandie Perez and Mo Mercado return, and add in redshirt freshman Alyssa Palomino, the all-time home run leader in Orange County history, and freshmen Dejah Mulipola and Jessie Harper, recently named to the USA Softball Junior Women's National Team, all middle-of-the-order hitters.
 
"I like where Kati is at right now," said Candrea. "I think she's going back to the basics and starting to do the little things. I think she doesn't feel the pressure this year because we have other people that will be around her that can get the job done.
 
"They're gonna have to pitch to her this year."
 
That's a frightening proposition for opposing pitchers, but a welcome change for Mauga and the Wildcats.
 
At the end of the year, the numbers will fall where the numbers will fall, but Mauga will have etched her name into record books regardless. But first, there's another place Mauga wants to etch her name: Oklahoma City.