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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2019-20 Women's Basketball

Mike Miller
Hunter Martin
Don Felice
Greg Carroccio

11 Kendall Grasela

  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Germantown Academy
  • Hometown Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

Biography

Career Honors: 2019 Ivy League regular season champion ... 2017-18 Big 5 champion ... 2017 Ivy League regular season and tournament champion.

2019-20: Team captain … One of seven Quakers to play in all 27 games and one of just four to start every game … Played 868 minutes, the second most on the team, averaging 32.1 per game … Recorded 4.2 points per game, 3.1 rebounds per game and 4.4 assists per game … Dished out 118 assists, the tenth-most in a single season in program history and less than 10 assists from fourth all-time … Led the Ivy League and finished seventh in the country in assist/turnover ratio with a mark of 2.8 … Led the Ivy League in assists per game … Finished second in the Ivy League in steals per game with 2.1 … Became the first player since Anna Ross on Dec, 22, 2017 to hit double-digit assists when she recorded 10 of them in a win over Iona (Nov. 17) … Finished with three double-digit scoring performances … Shot 2-for-5 from three-point range and 5-for-8 overall for a career-high 15 points and seven assists at Temple (Jan. 23) … Scored 11 points in back-to-back Ivy League victories, shooting 3-for-4 in a come-from-behind victory at Yale (Feb. 15) and then 5-for-8 against Dartmouth (Feb. 21) in The Palestra … Corralled a career-high nine rebounds in two games – at La Salle (Dec. 4) in a Big 5 win and at Brown (Feb. 14) in an Ivy League win … Shot 7-for-8 from the free throw line in a road win at Cornell (March 6) in the final weekend of the regular season … Logged all 40 minutes four times and played at least 35 minutes in a game 13 times … Flirted with a triple-double at Cornell (March 6), finishing with nine points, nine assists, a career-high seven steals and four rebounds ... Names to CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.

2018-19: Ivy League regular season champion ... One of eight players to play in all 31 games for the Quakers ... Made 30 starts, deferring only on senior night ... Averaged nearly 26 minutes, 3.7 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game ... Ranked third in the Ivy League with a 2.2 assist/turnover ratio ... Ranked third among Penn starters, shooting over 40 percent from the field ... Ranked second on the team with 105 assists ... Scored a season-high 11 points, all in the first half, against Princeton (Feb. 26) at The Palestra ... Tallied 10 points at #1/1 Notre Dame (Nov. 12) and at Stetson (Dec. 31) ... Played at least 30 minutes in 10 games, including a season-high 39 at Drexel (Dec. 21) ... Collected six rebounds against the Dragons ... Dished at least four assists in 13 games, including a season-high eight in two games - vs. Brown (Feb. 8) and Columbia (Feb. Feb. 22) ... Shot over 45 percent from behind the arc, going 2-for-2 from deep at Stetson and against Harvard (March 16) in the Ivy League Tournament ... Hit 5-of-6 free throws to seal a win at Princeton (Jan. 5) ... Swiped a season-best four steals against Brown at home. 

2017-18: Big 5 champion ... Played in 29 games off the bench as a guard, averaging 6.9 minutes per game ... Matched her career-high of three points on four occasions: against Lafayette (Nov. 18), at NJIT (Dec. 29), at Columbia (Feb. 16) and against UAlbany (March 16) in the WNIT ... Collected a season-high six rebounds vs. Lafayette ... Dished a season-high three assists three times: vs. VCU (Dec. 28), at NJIT and at Brown (Feb. 2) ... Played a career-high 18 minutes vs. Gwynedd Mercy (Jan. 28) ... Hit first career 3-pointer vs. Lafayette ... Averaged 0.9 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game ... Featured an assist to turnover ratio of 1.4.

2016-17: Ivy League regular season and tournament champion ... Appeared in 12 games for the Red and Blue during her freshman season, averaging 4.3 minutes per game ... Recorded one steal in contests vs. Rhode Island (Nov. 18), Lafayette (Nov. 30) and Wagner (Dec. 3) ... Played a season-high 14 minutes vs. Stevens (Jan. 29) ... Grabbed a season-high three rebounds vs. Stevens (Jan. 29) ... Recorded her first career point vs. Harvard (Feb. 3).

High School: Earned four varsity letters and was a two-year captain on head coach Sherri Retif ... Helped lead Germantown Academy to a 24-3 overall record and Inter-Ac Championship ... 2016 first-team All-Inter-Ac and Most Outstanding Defensive Player honoree ... Entered the top-10 of the all-time leaderboards in career assists at Germantown Academy ... Was a 2016 Markward Basketball Club inductee ... Selected as the All-City Classic Queen of the Court and Labor Classic All-Star ... 2015 first-team All-Inter-Ac and Most Outstanding Defensive Player selection ... 2014 second-team All-Inter-Ac honoree ... Played club basketball for the Philadelphia Belles ... Also was a three-year letterwinner in lacrosse ... Member of the National Honor Society, Chinese National Honor Society and earned Highest Honors at Germantown Academy.

Personal: Daughter of Michelle and Dennis Grasela ... Enrolled in the School of Nursing.

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