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2025 Softball Roster

4 Grier Bruce

  • Position Infielder
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Kennesaw, Ga.
  • Twitter grier_bruce14
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Biography

2023 Second Team All-SoCon

2025 (Senior):
Started all 56 games for the Bulldogs during the season at third base... Batted .315 with 36 RBIs and 26 runs... Hit seven home runs, 12 doubles, and carried an .890 OPS, third highest on the team... Had 16 multi-hit games on the season, including three-hit games against Western Carolina and UAB... Scored three runs twice during the season and had a season-high four RBIs against the Catamounts on 3/29.

2024 (Junior): Appeared in 54 games, starting 49 at third base, three at first base and one at designated player…. Batted .250 with four home runs and 28 RBIs to rank third on the squad in runs driven in… Collected 41 hits, six doubles and a triple… Drew 17 walks and was hit three times for an OB% of .326… Scored 17 runs… Tallied eight multi-hit games… Ranked second on the team with nine multi-RBI games… One of two Bulldogs that was not thrown out attempting to steal a base (1/1)… Scored a career-high four times and doubled twice against Detroit Mercy on 3/8… Drove in a season-best three runs against Southern Miss on 3/9.
 
2023 (Sophomore): Appeared in 57 games, starting all 57… Batted .308 with a team-best 14 home runs and 42 RBIs… Bruce’s home runs (14) and RBIs (42) tied for the second most by a Bulldog in a single season and second-most in the SoCon… Had 57 hits with 13 doubles for the fifth-best SLG% of .605 in the SoCon… Drew 18 walks and was hit with two pitches for an OB% of .370… Ranked second in the SoCon with 112 total bases… Collected 14 multi-hit games and a team-best 11 multi-RBI games… Reached base in 15 consecutive games from 4/1-5/2… Went 4-for-5 with three home runs and five RBIs at Western Carolina on 4/2… Named second team All-SoCon.

2022 (Freshman): Competed in 23 games in her college debut, making seven starts for the Bulldogs ... knocked five hits in 33 at-bats, marking one as a double ... recorded one run on the season in Samford’s 8-7 victory over Colgate ... drove in five runs with a season-high of two against Colgate ... totaled 43 putouts defensively with a season-high of nine against the Raiders.
 
High School: Lettered four years at Harrison High School … hit two home runs, a double, and tallied six RBI against North Cobb … set the career RBI record of 152, and the single season RBI record of 60 … named First Team All-County, Second Team All-State and First Team All-Region in 2019 … won the Region Championship in 2020 … won the 6A Georgia State Championship in 2018 … played for the Atlanta Vipers from 2017 to 2020.

 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2022Freshman

    Infielder
    5'8"
    4
  • 4

    2023Sophomore

    Infielder
    5'8"
    4
  • 4

    2024Junior

    Infielder
    5'8"
    4
  • 4

    2025Senior

    Infielder
    5'8"
    4