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Grace Wallis
Striker
Position
5'2''
Height
Freshman
Class
Blue Bell, Pa.
Hometown
Mount Saint Joseph Academy
High School
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AT VIRGINIA
2018
- VaSID All-State Second Team
- 2018 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
- Appeared in all 19 games with nine starts
- Led the team with 13 points on four goals with five assists
- Scored her first collegiate goal in her collegiate debut at Drexel (Aug. 24), netting two that game
- She has scored a goal or had an assist in six of UVA’s first eight games of the season
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
High School/Club Hockey
- Member of the USA U19 Junior National Team
- Three-time Pennsylvania All-State selection (first team:2017; second team: 2016, 2015)
- Max Field Hockey 2017 Second Team All-American and First Team All-Region (Pa.)
- Three-time Athletic Association of Catholic Academies League All-Star
- In her senior season at Mount Saint Joseph Academy, led the team with 58 points on 18 goals with 22 assists
- Also was a three-year varsity letter winner in track, competing as a sprinter and a jumper, finishing in second place at the 2017 league championships with a PR of 16′ 9″ in the long jump
- Was named a league All-Star in track in 2017 and has run in the Penn Relays as part of the 4×100 team five times
Personal
- Daughter of Jeannie and Mike Wallis
- Has an older brother, Liam, and a younger sister, Annmarie
- Her father, Mike, was a coxswain for the United States Naval Academy rowing team