Honors & Awards
Second-Team NFCA All-Mideast Region: 2022
Second-Team All-MVC: 2022
MVC All-Defensive Team: 2022
First-Team MVC Scholar-Athlete: 2021, 2021-22
MVC All-Tournament Team: 2022
Honorable Mention MVC Scholar-Athlete: 2022 & 2020
MVC Player of the Week: 04-05-22
Bradley Busey Bank Scholar-Athlete of the Week: 04-06-22 & 03-09-22
NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete: 2021-22, 2018-19
NSCA All-American (Strength & Conditioning): 2020-21
MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award: 2020, 2022
MVC Honor Roll: 2021, 2020 & 2019
Bradley AD Honor Roll: Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, & Fall 2022
PNC Achiever Award: Fall '22
MVC Presidents Council Academic Award: 2021-22
2022 (Senior)
Second-Team NFCA All-Mideast Region honoree … Second-Team All-MVC pick … Also earned a spot on the MVC All-Defensive Team and the Valley’s All-Tournament Team … Honorable mention MVC Scholar-Athlete … Led the Braves in homers (7) and RBI (32) to go with a .288 average as she split time between second base and pitcher … In the circle, led the team in nearly every statistical category with her team-best 11 wins the most by a Brave since 2015 … Owned a 3.14 ERA with 14 complete games in her 22 starts … Led the team in innings pitched (134.1) and strikeouts (76), while holding opponents to a .245 average … Hit a pair of homers and earned the win in the circle in a 4-1 victory over Loyola at the MVC Tournament and followed it up with another homer later that day against Drake as she became the ninth player in league history to hit three homers in a single MVC Tournament … Went 8-5 with a 3.44 ERA in Valley play … Only player in program history to win 11 or more games in a season and hit seven or more homers … Tossed Bradley’s first no-hitter since 2007 in early March, blanking St. Thomas … Ranks ninth in school history 30 career victories … Seven of her 10 losses in the circle came against teams in the top 90 of the final RPI … Selected as the team’s MVP … Named MVC Player of the Week on April 5 after hitting .571 with three doubles and one homer in addition to going 2-1 with a 3.05 ERA in three outings … Drove in multiple runs in 13 contests and had 13 multi-hit outings … Had a career-best reached base streak of 18 games.
2021 (Junior)
First-Team MVC Scholar-Athlete … Led the team in wins (8), starts (16), complete games (6), shutouts (6), innings (78.1) and strikeouts (47) … Tossed a two-hit, complete game shutout against Illinois State … Also had a complete game shutout of Akron … Also played in the outfield, hitting .177 on the year with three doubles, two homers and 11 RBI … Matched a career-high with eight strikeouts in the series opener at Evansville … Five of her eight wins came against Valley opponents … Went 3-for-7 in pinch-hitting situations … Drove in three runs against Illinois-Springfield, going 2-for-3 with a homer and two runs scored
2020 (Sophomore)
Owned a perfect 5-0 record with a 2.75 ERA in addition to hitting .269 at the plate … Ranked ninth in the MVC among pitchers with 30+ innings of work with her 2.75 ERA, which would have been the lowest ERA at Bradley since 2012 … Had a team-high two complete game shutouts in her seven starts … Second on the team in innings pitched (43.1) and strikeouts (32) … Held opponents to a .251 average … Posted a 2.31 ERA in her seven starts … Tossed a complete game, three-hit shutout against Appalachian State … A week later had a four-hit complete-game shutout vs. Saint Peter’s … Fanned a career-high eight batters in a win at Austin Peay, holding the Governors to four hits and one run … After an 0-for-10 start to the season at the plate, ended the year with a career-best six-game hit streak in which she was 7-for-16 (.438) with two runs, five RBI and two doubles.
2019 (Freshman)
Made 13 of her 25 starts at second base, in addition to making six starts in the circle … Appeared 33 contests overall, including 15 pitching appearances … Posted a 6-4 record with three complete games and a 1.79 ERA in 47.0 innings of work … Her six victories were the most by a Bradley freshman since Megan Mahaffy earned seven victories as a frosh in 2016 … Held hitters to a .264 batting average … Hit .217 at the plate … Was a perfect 4-0 with a miniscule 0.36 ERA in road games, which included a victory at Missouri … Collected her first career hit in a win against South Alabama after starting the year 0-for-10 at the plate as she hit .260 over her final 57 plate appearances … Went 3-for-4 with a run in a win at Tennessee Tech … Hit her first career home run to help highlight the win at SIU Edwardsville and also picked up the victory in the contest … Earned her first career win vs. Texas State, tossing 1.1 innings … Was 1-for-3 at the plate, while limiting Missouri to just five hits in a complete game victory against the Tigers … Struck out a season-high seven batters in a complete-game, five-inning victory vs. South Alabama … Held Evansville to just one hit and gave up just one unearned run in a complete game win in the series opener at Evansville.
High School: First-Team all-state pick by Cal Hi Sports as a senior … 2018 Vallejo Times Herald Athlete of the Year … Earned Second-Team All-Northern California honors from SportsStar Magazine … Two-time first-team all-conference selection … Wrapped up her prep career with a .422 career batting average, collecting 90 runs, 100 hits and 82 RBI during her time with the Panthers … Also owned an 18-3 record with a 1.14 ERA in the circle, which included eight shutouts, two no hitters and one perfect game … Helped Benicia to back-to-back CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D3 title her senior and junior seasons … Hit .360 with 29 runs, 30 RBI, eight doubles and five homers in 2018 in addition to boasting a 10-3 record and 1.48 ERA in her final prep season … Owned a .467 average with 30 RBI, 11 doubles, six triples and three home runs during her junior season in which she was a perfect 5-0 in the circle with a 1.30 ERA.
Personal: The daughter of Peter and Lora French, Grace was born in Walnut Creek, Calif. … Has two younger siblings: Jacob (17) and Emma (15) … Double majoring in Kinesiology & Health Science ... Her father played baseball at San Diego State and UC Riverside … Her grandfather Raymond T. French played professional baseball in the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Seals organizations during the 1940’s … Her great, great uncle Ray French played for the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox during the 1920’s
