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2022 Tufts University Jumbos Women's Volleyball Roster

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6 Grace Legris

6 Grace Legris

  • Height:
    5-11
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Minneapolis, Minn.
  • High School:
    Southwest
  • Major:
    Biopsychology and Spanish

Summary

Biography

Awards
All-NESCAC Second Team (2022)
American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) First Team All Region (2022)
AVCA Honorable Mention All American (2022)
New England Women's Volleyball Association (NEWVA) Honorable Mention (2021,2022)
Academic All-District Team selected by College Sports Communicators (2022)
NESCAC All-Academic Team (2020,2021,2022)


Get to know Grace: 
Dream job: Traveling to work on public health initiatives 
Activities/Clubs on campus: Tufts for Health Equity, Tufts Timmy Global Health 
Favorite place on campus: President's Lawn 
Favorite professional athlete: Simone Biles 
Favorite pregame meal: Toast with peanut butter
Pregame superstition: Handshakes with teammates
Hobbies: Hiking, cooking, listening to music, reading 

2022 (Senior): One of three captains for Tufts...Played and started all 29 matches... Named as an honorable mention to the All-American team... Earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region 1 First team...Achieved New England Women's Volleyball Association Honorable Mention...Selected to All-NESCAC Second Team...Led team by playing 106 sets during the season...Led the team with .323 hitting percentage which was fourth in NESCAC...Led team and was third in NESCAC with 83 blocks...Had a .713 hitting percentage with five kills against Coast Guard on September 23...Season high 15 kills against Brandeis on October 26...Had double digit kills in six matches...In NESCAC Championship Game victory versus Wesleyan, hit .455 with 12 kills...Tufts finished 23-6 on the season with a berth in the NCAA Tournament regional final.

2021 (Junior): Achieved NESCAC All-Academic status...Played in a total of 87 sets in 25 matches overall...Ranked eighth in NESCAC with .297 hitting percentage...Was 11th in the league with 0.71 blocks per set...Her 131 kills were fifth on the team...Totaled 62 blocks for second on the squad...Added 17 service aces...Hit .444 with 10 kills and had a solo block and four assists in team's win over #3 Trinity (Texas) on October 9...Did not have a hitting error while recording eight kills on 15 attempts for .533 percentage, and added for blocks (one solo) in Tufts' NCAA Reginal Final victory against Johns Hopkins...Had five blocks with three solos against Wesleyan on November 6.

2020 (Sophomore): Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019 (Freshman):  Member of the team that finished with one of the best regular season records in program history going 28-2 and capped off by a perfect 10-0 NESCAC season…appeared and played in seven games and nine total sets during her debut season…she had a season-high two kills in a victory over Colby…averaged .56 blocks per set and recorded three block assists in a win against Maine Maritime...earned Dean's List honors in the fall of 2019 and spring of 2020. 

Before Tufts: Was on the volleyball team at Minneapolis Southwest High School...was on the varsity volleyball team all four years of high school...was a captain of the varsity volleyball team...named to the Minneapolis All-City Team...earned Minneapolis All-Conference Award...selected as an AAU Academic All-American...earned an All-Conference Academic Award. 

Personal: Daughter of Heather and Michael...has one sibling, Peter (18)...two of her uncles played professional soccer and her cousin played Division I volleyball. 

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2019Freshman

    MH / OPP
    5'11"
    6
  • 6

    2020Sophomore

    MH / OPP
    5'11"
    6
  • 6

    2021-22Junior

    MH / OPP
    5'11"
    6
  • 6

    2022Senior

    MH / OPP
    5'11"
    6