Grace Sumner

Photo by: Jack Eads - Ball State Gymnastics

Position:
All-Around
Class:
Junior
High School:
Franklin Central
Hometown:
Indianapolis, Ind.

Grace Sumner Entering 2025 Season
Career Highs
BARS – 9.875 on Jan. 19, 2024 / Jan. 22, 2024
BEAM – 9.925 on Jan. 29, 2023 - PROGRAM RECORD

Career Points:
737.800

Event Wins:
BEAM: 4 - Jan. 30, 2022 / Feb. 9, 2024 / March 10, 2024 / April 3, 2024

In The Ball State Record Book (Highest Marks Only)
* Program Record Individual Beam Score of 9.925 in the Ball State Quad (Jan. 29, 2023)

2024 Season Accolades
- 2024 WCGA Scholastic All-American
- 2024 Academic All-MAC
- 2024 MAC Gymnast To Watch

2024 - JUNIOR SEASON: WCGA Scholastic All-American … Academic All-MAC … competed on bars and beam in all 13 meets … ranked sixth on the team with 251.375 points, helping the Cardinals earn a team bid into the first round of the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, a second-place finish at the MAC Championships and a share of the program’s second straight MAC regular season championship … captured the individual beam title at three meets, including in BSU’s NCAA Regional First Round match-up versus Illinois (March 4) … won beam with a season-best 9.900 at Central Michigan (Feb. 9) and with a 9.850 at Northern Illinois (March 10) … scored 9.800-or-higher in eight of her 13 beam routines … credited with a career-best bars score of 9.875 in back-to-back meets; at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19) and versus Bowling Green (Jan. 22) … scored 9.800-or-higher in seven of her 13 bars routines … named a MAC Gymnast to Watch entering the season.

2023 Season Accolades
- 2023 NCAA Regional Individual Participant (Beam)
- 2023 WCGA Scholastic All-American

2023 - SOPHOMORE SEASON: WCGA Scholastic All-American … competed on bars and beam in all 13 of Ball State's meets and was an individual competitor on beam in the second round of the NCAA Norman Regional ... ranked fifth on the team with 273.350 points to help the Cardinals earn a team bid into the first round of the NCAA Norman Regional, a second-place finish at the MAC Championships and a share of the program's first-ever MAC regular season championship ... her effort also helped Ball State register nine of the top 10 team scores in program history over the course of the season ... tied the program record on beam with a score of 9.925 at the Ball State Quad (Jan. 29) ... added scored of 9.900 on beam at the Missouri Quad (March 10) and versus Western Michigan (March 12) ... finished the season with 10 beam routines of 9.800-or-higher, including a 9.875 to place seventh on the event in the second round of the NCAA Norman Regional (March 30) ... her effort helped Ball State set the four best team beam scores in program history over the course of the season, including a program record mark of 49.350 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 20) in which she landed a routine of 9.875 ... credited with a career-best bars routine of 9.850 versus Northern Illinois (Feb. 12) ... added scores of 9.825 at the Missouri Quad and versus WMU, while scoring a 9.800 at Bowling Green (March 3) for four total bars routines of 9.800-or-better.

2022 Season Accolades
- 2022 WCGA Scholastic All-American

2022 - FRESHMAN SEASON: WCGA Scholastic All-American … competed in the beam lineup in all 13 meets … turned in a season-best beam score of 9.900 to win the event in the home tri-meet versus Central Michigan and Illinois State (Jan. 30) … the effort helped the Cardinals earn a then-program record beam score of 49.150 … tied for the team lead with a 9.850 on beam at the MAC Championships (March 19), helping the Cardinals tie the then-program’s beam record set earlier in the year … scored nine beam routines of 9.700-or-higher … competed in the bars lineup in nine meets … turned in a season-best bars routine of 9.800 at the MAC Championships … logged a pair of 9.775 bars routines versus Bowling Green (Feb. 13) and at West Virginia (March 6) … registered six bars routines of 9.725-or-higher.

Saleem on Sumner: I couldn’t be more excited to welcome this young woman to the family. Grace is an excellent competitor. She excels at both the beam and bars. Her beautiful lines and presentation will make an immediate positive impact on those events. Grace has a fun personality that will fit in perfectly with our team. She combines laidback and easygoing with a fierce determination for growth! She is incredible potential to grow and succeed at Ball State, and she is going to be a very successful collegiate student-athlete, both in the classroom and on the competition floor.

Career Highlights: As a level 10 gymnast, she won the all-around competition at the 2020 Jaycie Phelps Midwest Showdown with a career-best score of 37.875 … also won the beam and tied for first on floor at the meet … took 14th in the all-around at the 2019 Region 5 Level 10 Championships with a score of 36.850, which included a seventh-place effort on beam … won the beam and placed seventh in the all-around at the 2019 Indiana Level 10 State Meet … owns career-best Level 10 marks of 9.550 on vault, 9.650 on bars, 9.600 on beam, and 9.750 on floor

Why Ball State: I chose Ball State because I love the atmosphere of the campus. I also have friends that attend BSU, so I like that it’s close to home for me.

Personal: Daughter of Maggie and Kevin Sumner … has two brothers, Kyle and Ryan … first member of her family to compete in college athletics … born Feb. 18 … majoring in mathematical sciences.