Grace Kuipers

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Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Forward
Height:
5-5
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Eden Prairie
Hometown:
Eden Prairie, Minn.

Awards
2023 ECAC All-Academic Team
2022 ECAC All-Academic Team

At Princeton
2024-25
Saw action in 30 games…had assists against Robert Morris (Oct. 19) and Stonehill (Nov. 30)... took 16 shots and blocked seven…won 55 faceoffs…served one penalty for two minutes…finished the season +1

2023-24
Played in 17 games ... took two shots on the season ... served three penalties for six minutes ... blocked one shot on the season.

2022-23
Played in 15 games and took four shots ... blocked a shot against St. Lawrence on Feb. 18.

2021-22
ECAC All-Academic Team ... scored two goals, at Syracuse in a 4-4 tie on Dec. 10 and at Harvard in game two of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series at Harvard in a 2-1 loss ... had four assists in the 5-0 win at Union on Jan. 16 ... also had assists against Quinnipiac (Nov. 12), Syracsue (Dec. 10), St. Lawrence (Jan. 8), Dartmouth (Feb. 12), and in the first and third games of the ECAC quarterfinal series at Harvard, both wins ... 10 assists finished tied for second on the team and led all rookies ... finished with 12 points on the season ... took 45 shots and blocked nine.

Before Princeton: Selected for the USA Hockey National Development Camps in all eligible years ... played five years of varsity hockey at Eden Prairie High School in Minnesota, racking up 169 points (81 goals, 88 assists) to stand fifth all-time in scoring while winning two regional titles and qualifying for two state tournaments ... two-time first-team all-state honoree and a four-time All-Lake Conference honoree served as team captain as a senior, earned team MVP honors during her career, and twice was the team's Offensive Player of the Year ... played club hockey with the Minnesota Junior Whitecaps for the five years prior to Princeton ... played for multiple top-ranked Tier 1 teams that have qualified for Nationals, and won a U-14 North American Hockey Academy Championship in 2017.

Personal: Parents are Sarah and David Kuipers ... sister Claire Kuipers is in the Class of 2024 with the Saint Anselm College women's hockey team ... father David played four years of varsity soccer at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota ... interested in majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.