Grace Turner ‘24, a two-year varsity starter and a Seton Hall commit, has had an outstanding career with the girls volleyball team. With the most team kills and blocks this past season, she has left as much of an impact on the program as it has left on her. 

“It has made a major impact not just on my high school experience, but it has impacted the relationships I have outside of the sport,” she said. “It has brought me closer to girls that are in my graduating class but has also allowed me to connect with girls that are older and younger than I am. It has given me one of my best friends and many mentors that I continue to look up to.”

After studying at Seton Hall University, Turner hopes to become a Sports Psychologist at the collegiate or professional level to give athletes positive coping mechanisms to allow them to handle the mental pressure that they experience from competing at the next level, she said. She chose Seton Hall because of the positive environment of both students and administrators, as well as the competitive volleyball conference.

“I know I’ll be competing against girls that have the same passion and mindset as me,” she said. “I know that the coaches at Seton Hall will hold me to the standard, but also know that I am so much more than just one of their players and they will treat me with the same respect they expect from me.”  

One of her biggest achievements in LT volleyball was becoming a role model for the underclassmen. 

“I was pretty clueless to the fact that I was that type of role model until one of the underclassmen expressed that she has looked up to me and other girls that were on the freshman team also have similar feelings,” she said. “It was great to know that I became someone that has an influence on the underclassmen. I knew that exact feeling of thinking ‘I want to be just like her when I’m older.’” 

Turner will begin Division I competition with the Seton Hall Pirates in the fall of 2024.