Grace Beyer named CSC's top NAIA women's player

Regular season or not, the accolades continue to pour in for the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy's Grace Beyer. Today she was named the College Sports Communicators' (formerly CoSIDA) NAIA women's basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year.

Beyer powered the Eutectics to their best season in program history going 21-8 and finishing one win short of a guaranteed spot in the NAIA National Tournament. She led not only the team, but the entire country in scoring finishing the year with a 32.3 points-per-game scoring average. No one else in the nation averaged more than 25.0 points-per-game. The point guard finished second in the land in free throw percentage going 277-of-295 for a 93.9% average from the line. She made more free throws than anyone else in the nation even attempted. Academically, she also holds a GPA of 3.93 in the classroom.

Throughout the season, Beyer was named the American Midwest Conference's Player of the Week 11 different times, eclipsing her personal best of 10 times last season. She was four times named the NAIA's Player of the Week. She was not only named to the AMC All-Conference First-Team and the AMC All-Tournament Team, but was the Conference's Player of the Year for the second straight season.

Beyer along with four others comprise the NAIA Academic All-America First-Team. The other repeat selection on the Academic All-America NAIA team joining Beyer is Brynley Fitzgerald (University of Montana Western), who earned second team honors in 2020-21. Five of the 10 members of the Academic All-America NAIA women's basketball teams maintain an impeccable 4.0 GPA in their undergraduate work or graduate school. The five members of the first team have an average GPA of 3.95, with the entire NAIA team carrying a collective average GPA of 3.94.