Player Profile
Grace made her international debut for GB at the age of 20 against the USA in San Diego — a country where she'd studied for a year at Maryland University — shortly after being part of the GB U18 team that won European bronze in 2012, and going on to win the same colour medal with England at the 2014 U21 Euros.
She waited another three years to make her England debut, but has since become a mainstay in both defences, featuring at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the Vitality Hockey Women's World Cup later that year.
Alongside Giselle Ansley, Grace is a real threat from penalty corners, proving it on hockey's greatest stage by scoring three times at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics — including the winning goal in the thrilling bronze medal match against India that secured GB's place on the podium.
Grace was a key member of England's gold medal-winning Commonwealth Games squad in the summer of 2022, having already scored the Tokyo 2020 bronze medal-winning goal for Great Britain the year before. She played in that year's World Cup too, and lined up on home soil in Durham as part of England's EuroHockey Qualifiers. In December 2022 she featured in the FIH Pro League tour of Argentina, taking her past 50 combined GB/England caps. Now with well over 115 international caps and 20 goals, the East Grinstead defender remains one of the squad's most experienced penalty-corner threats heading into the new cycle.
Outside of hockey, one of Grace's main interests is baking, while she also has a passion for collecting vinyl records.
