A strong force off the boards, Irene Grimanis returns for her fourth season with the Scarlet Raptors’ basketball program. Grimanis, who has averaged 5.8 rebounds per game during her collegiate career, has 421 total rebounds, including 248 defensive boards. She needs only 65 more rebounds to tie for 10th on the program’s career list, and if she matches her junior season total of 157 boards, she’d vault to ninth on the all-time chart.
Grimanis has played in 73 of the Scarlet Raptors’ 74 games during her career. If she plays the entire 25-game schedule she would tie for fifth on the program’s all-time list, and an additional two post-season games would make her only the third player in program history to appear in 100 or more games.
Basketball 2013-14: Appeared in all 24 games, starting 11…Averaged 1.4 points and was third on the team in rebounds with a 6.5 average…Collected 30 assists (fourth on the club), 17 steals (fifth) and three blocked shots…Finished 16th in the New Jersey Athletic Conference in rebounding and 11th in offensive rebounding (3.1 per game)…Collected seven games with double-digit rebounds, including six in a seven-game span from Jan. 13-29, in which she averaged 12.0 rebounds…Set her career high with 20 rebounds against Rowan University (Jan. 29), including 11 offensive boards…That game broke her old career high of 15 rebounds, also set against Rowan, on Jan. 25, 2012…Had back-to-back 13-rebound games against John Jay College (Jan. 20) and Rutgers-Newark (Jan. 22)…In the John Jay game, set her career high of six assists, a mark she tied later in the season against the College of Staten Island (Feb. 17)…Tied her career high of four steals against Montclair State (Feb. 1)…Collected seven points and eight rebounds against Penn State-Berks (Nov. 17).
Basketball 2012-13: Played in all 25 games for the Scarlet Raptors, starting seven…Averaged 1.4 points and 5.6 rebounds…Added 17 assists, 16 steals and 10 blocked shots…Had 141 total rebounds, including 91 off the defensive glass…Had five games with 10 or more rebounds and also added a nine-rebound game in only 20 minutes of playing time against Rutgers-Newark (Nov. 20)…Her season highs of 14 rebounds came at Wesley College (Feb. 4) and at New Jersey City University (Feb. 13)…Also had 12 boards against Richard Stockton College (Dec. 12), when she also tied her career high of four steals…Had 11 rebounds and a career-high five assists at Rowan University (Nov. 28)…Collected 10 boards in a home game against New Jersey City University (Jan. 9)…Scored a season-high four points on four occasions, including back-to-back games against Richard Stockton (Dec. 12) and Old Westbury (Dec. 22).
Basketball 2011-12: Played in 24 games, starting four, and averaging 3.2 points…Third on the team in rebounding (5.1 rpg) among all players appearing in more than four games…Had 23 assists, 13 steals and three blocked shots…Made collegiate debut against Keystone College (Nov. 15) and collected six points, six rebounds, one steal and one blocked shot…First start came at Rutgers-Newark (Dec. 3) and she set a career high with eight points, while adding six rebounds and one assist…Grabbed eight rebounds in her next game, a start at Notre Dame of Maryland (Dec. 5)…Notched a career-high four steals at Yeshiva University (Dec. 15) and a team-high seven rebounds in her next game at Cal Tech (Jan. 2)…Had a career-high and game-high 15 rebounds, including nine offensive boards, and tied her career high of eight points against Rowan University (Jan. 25)…Led team with six rebounds at Ramapo College (Jan. 28)…Overall, had five or more rebounds in 14 of her 24 games.
High School: Basketball and soccer letterwinner at Gloucester City High School…Basketball captain for Coach Sean Gorman…Tri-County Conference Classic Division Second Team in basketball as a senior…Tri-County Conference Classic Division First Team goalie as a senior in soccer…Also Tri-Co Classic Division Honorable Mention goalie during her junior season.
Personal: Born August 5, 1993…Nicknamed “Tupac”…Enjoys “chillen with friends,” other sports and traveling…Pharmacy major at Rutgers-Camden…Post-graduation plans include playing basketball and getting married…Irene is the daughter of Maria and Gus Grimanis.
