Honors: Team's "Grinder" Award (2012) ... Team's Strength and Conditioning Lifter of the Year (2011)
2011-12 Sinlges: Finished the dual season at 2-2 ... competed at courts 4, 5 and 6 ... recorded her last win as a Badger with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout victory over Green Bay's Maria Anderson (Jan. 22) ... went 7-5 in the fall ... finished 2-1 at the Green and White Invitational ... registered 3-0 record at ITA second chance regional en route to being crowned champion of the Red singles flight ... posted a 2-1 record at the Gopher Invitational
2011-12 Doubles: Went 5-1 in spring doubles play ... got off to a 4-0 start with partner Caroline Bauer ... played all but one match at court three ... started the dual season 4-0 with three wins at No. 3 and another at No. 2 ... recorded a 4-7 record in the fall ... finished 2-1 at the Green and White Invitational with Caroline Bauer
2010-11 Singles: Posted a 4-2 record in spring dual matches ... lost lone Big Ten match ... went 2-0 at No. 5 position and 2-2 at No. 6 singles ... earned back-to-back 6-0, 6-0 wins over Melissa Kaufmann of Western Illinois and Mary Ellen Donovan of Milwaukee in a doubleheader at Nielsen Tennis Stadium (Feb. 20) ... went 3-3 in fall season ... posted a 1-1 record at the ITA Midwest Regional Championship ... went 2-2 in flight C at the Wildcat Invitational
2010-11 Doubles: Finished 2-0 in spring dual matches, picking up both wins paired with Caroline Bauer at No. 3 doubles ... finished 1-3 during the fall ... went 0-1 at the ITA Midwest Regional Championship partnered with Aleksandra Markovic ... finished with a 1-2 record at the Wildcat Invitational partnered with Markovic
2009-10 Singles: Went 1-1 in dual play at the No. 6 position ... dropped lone Big Ten match ... defeated Green Bay's Maria Anderson in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 ... went 7-3 during the fall season ... began UW career going 3-0 at Milwaukee Tennis Classic ... won first match as a Badger over April Kerr of Western Michigan University 6-0, 7-5
2009-10 Doubles: Went 1-3 in doubles matches ... paired with Jessica Seyferth at the No. 3 position ... defeated then-No. 47 Purdue's Tirumurti and Golder 8-6 for lone Big Ten win ... went 3-1 during the fall ... went 2-0 at Wildcat Invite paired with Hannah Berner
2008-09: Played her rookie season at Delaware ... went 20-5 in singles playing at the No. 2 and 4 positions ... went 22-7 in doubles
High School: Compiled an overall record of 129-4 at Whitefish Bay High School ... 2006 Wisconsin State Tournament Individual Champion ... 2007 Wisconsin State Tournament Individual Runner-up ... third place in the state as a sophomore and top-16 in the state as a freshman ... First Team All-State 2005-2007 ... ranked 25th among 18-and-unders in the USTA's Midwest Region ... ranked no. 328 nationally ... two-year starter for the Whitefish Bay basketball team ... National Honor Society President ... high-honor roll student
Personal: Parents are David and Nancy Gruber ... father played basketball at Delaware from 1977-1980 ... brother Steven plays basketball at Brown University... major is nutritional sciences
Gruber's Career Singles Records (as of May 2, 2012)
Season | Overall | Dual | Tour. | Fall | Big Ten | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 |
2009-10 | 8-4 | 1-1 | --- | 7-3 | 0-1 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 1-1 |
2010-11 | 7-5 | 4-2 | --- | 3-3 | 0-1 | --- | --- | --- | --- | 2-0 | 2-2 |
2011-12 | 9-7 | 2-2 | --- | 7-5 | 0-1 | --- | --- | --- | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
Career | 24-16 | 7-5 | --- | 17-11 | 0-3 | --- | --- | --- | 1-0 | 3-1 | 3-4 |
Gruber's Career Doubles Records (as of May 2, 2012)
Season | Overall | Dual | Tour. | Fall | Big Ten | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 |
2009-10 | 4-4 | 1-3 | --- | 3-1 | 1-3 | --- | --- | 1-3 |
2010-11 | 3-3 | 2-0 | --- | 1-3 | --- | --- | --- | 2-0 |
2011-12 | 9-8 | 5-1 | --- | 4-7 | --- | --- | 1-0 | 4-1 |
Career | 16-15 | 8-4 | --- | 8-11 | 1-3 | --- | 1-0 | 7-4 |