A member of the USA Olympic softball team in 2000 and an alternate in 1996, Brundage helped the United States win the gold medal at the Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, leading the squad in batting average. Brundage was Team USA’s leader in runs and home runs and ranked among the top five in RBI, hits and batting average during the team’s pre-Olympics Summer Central Park to Sydney Tour. She earned a spot on the Olympic team after helping the United States to gold medals in both the Canada Cup and Pan-Am Games in 1999.

Brundage won a gold medal at the 1998 South Pacific Classic in New Zealand and has participated in six U.S.A. Softball Festivals. She has played in a number of ASA Women’s Major National Tournaments and helped the California Commotion to its fourth straight national championship in 1999. Brundage has earned seven Women’s Major National championships in her ASA career and is a six-time ASA Women’s Major All-American at third base and outfield.

A four-year letterwinner at UCLA (1992-95), Brundage helped the Bruins to four NCAA Women’s College World Series appearances, winning the 1992 national championship and finishing runner-up in 1993. She earned a pair of NFCA All-America first team accolades at third base and was named the recipient of the Honda Award (softball) in 1995. Brundage led all NCAA Division I players in batting average (.518) as a senior and broke the Bruins’ career records for home runs, RBI and doubles, as well as ranking second on the career list in batting average. On November 11, 2007, she was inducted into UCLA’s Athletics Hall of Fame — the ninth Bruin softball player to earn the distinction.

Brundage was the 1995 CoSIDA Softball Academic All-American of the Year and twice earned CoSIDA Academic All-America first team honors. Brundage was the recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and the UCLA Athletics Senior Scholarship award in 1995.

Brundage graduated from UCLA in 1995 with a B.A. in communications and later earned a master’s in sports management from Michigan. Brundage resides in Ann Arbor with her husband, Rich Boys.