Clay Grady Season 2024

2023 at Virginia Tech

• Season Notes: Played in 46 games, started 37 games, batted .307 while recording 150 at-bats ... Registered 46 hits, including four home runs, five doubles, and a triple, slugging .433 ... Scored 33 runs and totaled 34 RBIs ... Drew 15 walks, achieving a .386 on-base percentage ... Stole four bases on five attempts ... Sported a .992 fielding percentage as shortstop and had six RBI against UMass Lowell. 

Travel

• Played three years with the Dirtbags as a shortstop under Coaches Jon Walker and Chad Anderson … Team was the 2021 WWBA Jupiter Tournament runner-up … Ranked the #14 player and #4 shortstop in Virginia and the District of Columbia by PBR VA/DC

High School

• Played four years of varsity baseball as a shortstop under Coach Mark Stuffel at Nansemond River High School … Earned All-District, All-Tidewater, All-Region, and All-State honors throughout his four years and was awarded the Outstanding Metro Scholastic Baseball Player of the Year Award his senior year … Named to the 2020 and 2021 Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American team and to the 2022 Perfect Game Preseason All-American team … Played high school golf freshman year and made it to the Virginia Regional Championships under Coach Brandon Fry

Personal

• Born February 5, 2004 in Norfolk, Virginia to David and Tracy Grady … Has two older brothers, Jake and Ben Grady, and one older sister, Ginna Grady … Interested in studying Business at Virginia Tech … Hopes to play professional baseball in the future … Elected high school class president, member of the Beta Club, named an honor graduate with a GPA of 4.4167, and graduated from the Project Lead the Way Engineering Program at Nansemond River High School