Salem College

FIRST YEAR (2025 / BEACH VOLLEYBALL): Capped off the first season of the beach volleyball program with five wins, all as the No. 5 seed, alongside classmate Molly Enos … posted a 5-8 mark as the No. 5 seed and played four matches as the Spirits’ No. 4 seeded unit … the duo of Royer and Enos opened the season as Salem’s No. 4 seed in matches with Bailey Beck / Brook Noe (Spartanburg Methodist) and Kaley Barger / Hayden Larrimore (St. Andrews), suffering a pair of two-set losses … Enos and Royer notched the first of four consecutive wins as the No. 5 seeds, including two in the first-ever match at Salem College, which came against Wake Tech CC’s Morgan Barnes / Mary Barnes (21-11, 18-21, 17-15) and Cheyenne Yester / Morgan Barnes (21-12, 21-13) … posted two victories in a trip to South Carolina, as Enos and Royer earned a 21-19, 21-14 victory versus Rebekah Martin / Tristan Craine (Spartanburg Methodist) as well as Katelyn Bunting / Kennedy Koziarz (Sandhills CC) by margins of 21-19, 21-7 … halted a five-match skid with a three-set victory over Lydia Nelson and Jamie Smith (Lynchburg) on April 3rd in fifth-seeded action by scores of 15-21, 21-11, 15-10 … faced off against Paige Green and Mackenzie Fa'apouli (St. Andrews) as the No. 4 seed, falling in the first meeting in three sets (14-21, 21-18, 15-9) and by the score of 21-13, 21-16 in the second clash … wrapped up the season with a series of two-set setbacks to teams from Huntingdon, Berry and LaGrange at the Briggs Beach Bash hosted by Berry College on April 11-12. 

FIRST YEAR (2024 / VOLLEYBALL): Played in 17 matches over the course of the season, dishing out 56 assists and contributed 26 digs along the way … made her collegiate debut against Roanoke (August 31), notching four assists and three digs along the way … handed out five assists and added one dig in a match against Hollins (September 7) … played in three sets at Methodist (September 17), dishing out 11 assists and making eight digs, a single-match season-high … reached double-digit assists (12), while adding five digs, in the first game of a doubleheader versus Pfeiffer (September 20) … responsible for seven assists and one dig in a three-set win versus the Falcons in the second game of the doubleheader … emerged with a single-match season-high 14 assists, adding five digs from the back row, at Mary Baldwin (September 28) … played one set in the match at N.C. Wesleyan (October 26), closing with one dig and one assist … competed in one set of Salem’s clash with Mary Baldwin (November 9), contributing two assists and two digs. 

PREP: Graduated from homeschool, but competed in volleyball at Elon Christian Academy … recognized as an AAU Academic All-America honoree in volleyball in 2022 … competed for six years with the Alamance Acers, her homeschool program, under the direction of coaches Russell Doss, Kevin Royer and Craig Hicks … named to the All-Conference unit at Elon Christian following the 2022 and 2023 campaigns … recipient of the 2023 North Carolinian's for Home Education Athletic Commission (NCHEAC) State Homeschool Volleyball All-Tournament Award … recognized as the 2023 Elon Christian Academy Most Valuable Player … integral part of the 2022 conference championship … helped her Elon Christian Academy unit to the NCHEAC Tournament runner-up in both 2022 and 2023 … a three-year member of the AIM Volleyball Club, playing under the direction of coaches Craig Hicks, Matthew Evans and Shana Paschall … received the JVA Sportsmanship Award while competing for the AIM Volleyball Club. 

PERSONAL: Grace Marie Royer … daughter of Kelly and Kevin Royer … born on March 26, 2006 … has one sibling, Abbie.