Cornell University Athletics

Honorable Mention All-Ivy League
 

As a senior (2021)

• Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a junior (2020)

• Scored 12 goals and added an assist in six games (three starts).
• Added two ground balls, a caused turnover and a draw control.
• Scored two goals in the season-opening win over Villanova.
• Credited with four goals and an assist along with a ground ball, a caused turnover and a draw control in the victory over Marist.
• Scored a goal and was credited with a ground ball at nationally-ranked Penn State.
• Netted a goal in the win at Harvard.
• Scored four times in the win over Columbia.
 

As a sophomore (2019)

• Named honorable mention All-Ivy League.
• Led the team's midfielders with 20 goals. 
• Added six assists for 26 total points.
• Posted 18 draw controls, seven ground balls and three caused turnovers.
• Scored on 6-of-11 free-position opportunities.
• Missed the first two games of the season due to injury.
• Had nine multi-point performances during the season. 
• Scored 11 points (eight goals, three assists) over a three-game span during the middle of the season, including three goals and an assist for a career high four points in wins over both Rutgers and Yale.
• Credited with career highs of two caused turnovers and three round balls in a win over Brown.
• Won six draws in an Ivy contest against Yale.
 

As a freshman (2018)

• Had a strong freshman debut, playing in all 15 games and starting in six of them.
• Led all rookies in points (15) and goals (13), ground balls (8), caused turnovers (6) and draw controls (21).
• Registered goals in eight contests.
• Scored the game winner against Villanova in the season opener.
• Had career day at Brown, netting a hat trick and registering four total points.
• Controlled seven draws at Penn State, picked up two ground balls against Penn and caused two turnovers versus Syracuse.
 

Prior to Cornell

• Earned four combined varsity letters in lacrosse at Greenwich High school (2014) and Convent of the Sacred Heart. 
• Two-time USL All-American (2016, 2017).
• Named USL All-Academic in 2016.
• Three-time Fairchester Athletic Association (FAA) All-League selection (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Led her team to a FAA Lacrosse Tournament Championship as a senior captain.
• Recognized as a member of the US Lacrosse National Tournament Connecticut Team One in 2016.
• Also lettered three times in soccer.
• Was a two-time all-league selection in soccer and helped her team win one FAA championship (2014).
 

Personal

• Grace Christine Paletta is the daughter of Stephen ’87 and Christine Paletta ’88 and she has two older sisters.
• Father, Stephen, was an All-American lacrosse player at Cornell and captained the Big Red’s 1987 national runner-up team.
• Mother, Christine, was an All-Ivy gymnast at Cornell.
• Sister, Natalie, is a member of the Cornell women’s lacrosse team.
• Sister, Carolyn, is a member of the Brown women’s lacrosse team.
• Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.