Western New England University

Entering the Season: Versatile student-athlete who also is an award-winning volleyball player at Western New England...third-year member of the program who started in 2012 and '13...postseason awards candidate...will play mostly first base and see spot duty as a catcher...

2014 (Junior Year): Missed the season because she was accepted into the prestigious Walt Disney Company College Internship Program.

2013 (Sophomore Year): Named to the National Fastpitch Coaches' Association Scholar All-America Team, All-Commonwealth Coast Conference Honorable Mention and Academic All-CCC...team's starting catcher while missing just one of WNE's 46 games...ranked third in the CCC with 147 at-bats and 11 doubles...also made just one error behind the plate, recording the seventh-best fielding percentage in the conference at .996...second on the team with 21 runs batted in and 13 multi-hit games...had six games in which she had more than one RBI, leading the squad...hit in eight-consecutive games from April 3-9, batting .560 (14-for-25) with nine RBI during that stretch.

2012 (Freshman Year): Started in 19 of 24 contests.

What I Like Best About WNE: "The quality athletic teams and my friends."

High School: Attended Avon, where she was awarded four varsity letters in softball and three in volleyball volleyball captain of the 2010 team...two-time volleyball all-conference choice in 2009 and 2010...graduated in 2011.

Personal: Born Grace Cerny Kucharski on Dec. 9, 1992 in Elgin, Ill., to parents Laurence and Karen...siblings are sister Gillian (who played volleyball at Endicott College) and younger brother Cole... Favorites: movies--A League of their Own, Sandlot and The Goonies; TV Show--Dexter; actor--Johnny Depp; pro team--NHL's Chicago Black Hawks; food--shrimp; musical group--Backstreet Boys...hopes to work for The Disney Company after graduation...studying business management and leadership.

Western New England Career Statistics