2025-26 Softball Roster

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5 Elizabeth Gray

  • Class Junior
  • Position OF
  • Height 5-3
  • Hometown Doylestown, Pa.
  • High School Central Bucks East
  • INFLCR elizabeth-gray

Biography

CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
BIG EAST Freshman of the Week 2024: March 25
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2023-24, 2024-25

Career: Quick and athletic slap hitter with experience across the outfield and just one error in over 100 chances … Has appeared in almost 90 games with 64 starts in her first two years … Burst onto the scene as the starting center fielder for Villanova's most successful team in program history as a freshman … Recognized on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll all four times and BIG EAST All-Academic Team as a freshman.

2025: Played in 44 games as a sophomore, starting at every outfield position … Racked up 18 runs scored with 12 hits and 12 walks in her second year on the Main Line … Surpassed her 2024 fielding totals with 55 putouts and two outfield assists … Racked up four two-hit games Totaled two hits and a pair of runs against Abilene Christian … Two-hit day against Louisville on Feb. 14 … Scored twice with a pair of walks against Virginia Tech … Totaled two hits in one game against each of Creighton and Georgetown … Reached base twice with a walk and single in regular season finale vs. Providence.

2024: Played in 45 games with 36 starts as a true freshman … Hit .297 with 19 hits, 15 walks and 18 runs scored as Villanova's nine-hole hitter … Earned her first career start as the left fielder against Alabama … Picked up her first hit and run batted in with an RBI single at Duke … Tallied her first career outfield assist by throwing out a runner in the BIG EAST opener against Seton Hall … Put together a three-game hit streak with singles in consecutive games from March 8-15 … Walked twice against Providence on March 15 … Scored twice on a pair of bases on balls versus St. Joe's … Contributed first career extra base hit with an RBI double in first half of a doubleheader against Georgetown … Totaled a three-hit, two-run, two-RBI game in the second half of that doubleheader with her first triple … Earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week on March 25 Started all three BIG EAST Tournament games with a two-hit, one-walk game against Connecticut in the semifinals … Appeared in the final three NCAA Tournament games with two hits and two runs against host Arkansas before an RBI single versus No. 17 Arizona … Played a flawless center field with 53 putouts and two assists for a 1.000 fielding percentage.

Central Bucks East High School: Received four varsity letters in softball … Three-time all-league selection … First Team All-State nominee in 2023 … Won team's offensive player of the year in each of sophomore through senior years, as well as most valuable player in 2022 and 2023 and defensive player of the year as a senior … Earned President's Award for Educational Excellence, as well as graduating summa cum laude with a National Honors Society commendation.

Personal: Born 12/20/04 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania … Oldest of three children of Kevin and Michele Gray … Has two younger siblings, Mikayla and James … Mom played outfield for Villanova from 1992-93 … Enjoys collecting records and lists her favorite band as Queen … Majoring in Biology … Noted that Villanova "felt like home."

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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2024Freshman

    OF
    5'3"
    5
  • 5

    2025Sophomore

    OF
    5'3"
    5
  • 5

    2025-26Junior

    OF
    5'3"
    5