Who is Aaron Judge’s Wife Samantha Bracksieck?
New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is one of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball. He made his debut with the Bronx Bombers in 2016 and was named the American League Rookie of the Year. In 2022, he earned AL MVP honors. Since then Judge has continued to produce monster numbers for the club but while what he’s been doing on the field is well-documented, not a ton is known about his life off the field and his wife, Samantha Bracksieck.
Here’s more about the lady Judge is married to and their relationship.
Judge and Bracksieck have been dating on and off for years
Like Judge, Bracksieck attended Linden High School in California as well as California State University, Fresno. Because they have kept their relationship so private, it’s unclear if they are high school or college sweethearts.
At Fresno, Bracksieck obtained her degree in kinesiology. According to Life & Style Magazine, she continued her education at the college and was awarded the Outstanding Master’s Degree Project by the dean for her project “Posterior Elbow Angle During the Movement Phase of Throwing in Relation to the Susceptibility of UCL Injury in Major League Baseball Players.”
Judge and Bracksieck broke up for a bit in 2016.
Who Judge was linked to and Bracksieck was previously engaged to during their split
When Judge and Bracksieck were broken up, they were both romantically involved with other people.
The MLB slugger was with a woman named Jen Flaum. They dated for a few months in 2017 and split, but reports surfaced in 2018 that they were an item again when they were photographed having dinner together. Judge and the University of Michigan graduate reportedly ended things after details about their relationship were leaked to the media.
Bracksieck was seeing someone else while they broken up as well and reportedly even got engaged.
A source who went to Fresno State with Bracksieck told Terez Owens: “Her and Aaron Judge broke up in October/November 2016. She started dating Luke Heinrichs only two months later in January of 2017. They were serious very quickly and she got engaged while they were on vacation together a year later on May 12, 2018 … She was always giving countdowns of how many days until they were getting married.”
The insider added that Bracksieck “was supposed to have her wedding to him on Jan. 5, 2019, but was already Aaron Judge’s date to his All Rise Foundation dinner on Jan. 26th.”
Bracksieck later deleted all evidence of her broken engagement from her Instagram.
When Bracksieck and Judge got married
Judge and Bracksieck ignited reconciliation rumors in February 2019 when they were spotted at the Fanatics Super Bowl party together. That June, the couple appeared to officially be back on as Bracksieck accompanied the right fielder to London when the Yankees faced the Red Sox in a two-game series. And in September, she was Judge’s date to the LegaCCy Gala at the Shed in New York City.
The two tied the knot in an intimate outdoor ceremony at the Montage Kapalua Bay Hotel in Maui in 2021.
In 2024, Judge made a rare comment about his marriage when he shared a conversation he had with his wife about his contract renewal in 2022.
“It’s funny. I was in California. Sam and I were headed to Hawaii to celebrate our [wedding] anniversary. We had a flight at 8 a.m., so 2 o’ clock in the morning, 3 o’clock, we’re just staying up … we’re going back and forth about different offers from different teams,” the baseball player explained during an interview on the Casa De Klub podcast. “‘What do you want to do?’ And I’m telling her, ‘I want to stay in New York. I don’t want to go anywhere else.’”
Judge ended up signing a nine-year contract with the Yankees for $360 million.
