TROY, N.Y. – Following the best week of her collegiate career, senior Grace Heiting of the Union College women's lacrosse team was recognized as the Liberty League Co-Offensive Performer of the Week for the week ending Sunday, the conference announced on Monday afternoon.
 
Heiting earned her first career Player of the Week honor after a huge weekend for Union, scoring 11 goals with three assists to go with 17 draw controls, nine caused turnovers and four ground balls in two games.
 
She started with four goals and seven draw controls in a 16-12 loss to #17 St. Lawrence University on Friday, and then had the best game of her career on Saturday against Clarkson University, recording seven goals, two assists, 10 draw controls, seven caused turnovers and four ground balls. The nine points are the most in a game by a Union player since 2016, while her goal and caused turnover totals are tied for the most by Dutchwoman in a game since at least 2004.
 
Heiting had to miss Union's game against #1 Middlebury College on Tuesday, but it was for a good reason: the biology and Spanish double major was in Philadelphia receiving the American Physiological Society's Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award.
 
Heiting leads Union in scoring so far as a senior, already netting a career-high 26 goals with 11 assists for 37 points. She also ranks second on the team in draw controls (25) and caused turnovers (19) as well as third in ground balls (16), while also ranking third in the Liberty League in points per game (4.63) and first in caused turnovers per game (2.38).
 
The Dutchwomen will continue their postseason push on Saturday with a 1 p.m. matchup at Vassar College.