Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics

2022: Appeared in 10 games, starting eight ... Posted 5-2 record with 3.96 earned run average ... Allowed 44 hits in 52.1 innings, striking out 69 and walking 16 ... First on team in wins and strikeouts ... Second in appearances and starts ... Opponents hit .226 ... WHIP of 1.15 ... Struck out two-or-more in eight games with season high of 13 once ... One earned run allowed in five games ... Pitched 8.0 innings, allowing two hits and one earned run with 13 strikeouts against Bard ... Liberty League Weekly Honor Roll three times ... All-Liberty League First Team ... ABCA All-Region Third Team ... Liberty League All-Academic ... CoSIDA Academic All-District ... CoSIDA National Academic All-America Third Team ... 

2021: Appeared in four games, starting three ... Pitched 16.0 innings with 11 strikeouts ... Had a 7.31 ERA with a 1.50 WHIP and .308 B/Avg ... Pitched 6.0 innings against Ithaca with four strikeouts and three hits ... Liberty League All-Academic ...

2020: Two appearances, both in relief ... Went 1-0 with 7.36 earned run average in 3.2 innings ... Struck out nine and walked one ... Opposition hit .286 ... WHIP of 1.56 ... Allowed one hit with six strikeouts in 2.1 innings to get win against Westfield State ... Struck out three in 1.1 innings against St. Scholastica ... Summer: All-Connecticut Collegiate Baseball League (24.2 IP / 29Ks / 5H / 5 BB / 2ER / 0.565 ERA) ...

2019: Appeared in 13 games, three as starter ... Went 1-0 with 5.67 earned run average in 27.0 innings ... Team-best two saves ... One combined shutout ... Struck out 31 and walked 15 ... Opposition hit .325 ... At least 2.0 innings in seven games ... Multiple strikeouts in seven games with season-high nine once (Elms) ... Liberty League All-Academic ...

2018: Appeared in team-high 14 games, three as starter ... Went 2-2 with 5.27 earned run average in 27.1 innings ... Struck out 23 and walked 11 ... Opposition hit .221 ... Liberty League Rookie of the Week once ...

High School: Three years at Framingham High School ... Two at Dexter Southfield School ... Five years of baseball (P, OF) ... Captain for one ... Led team in ERA as senior (0.77) ... Two-time Cy Young in Framingham Baseball League ... Perfect Game All-Tournament Team in 2015 and 2016 ... Team won New England Small School Championship in 2016 and 2017 ... Team went undefeated in 2017 ... Three years of golf ... Soccer for two and indoor track for one ... High Honor Roll ... Science Prize ... Most Committed to Community Service Award ...

Personal: Aeronautical Engineering undergraduate degree ... Psychology minor ... Summa cum laude ... Nuclear Engineering and Sciences Ph.D. candidate ... Dean's Honor List ... Olympia (RPI Athletics Honor Society) ... SAAC ... Research Assistant in SEAL Lab ... Aerospace Honor Society ... Hydro-Mechanical Systems Engineering Intern at Collins Aerospace ... Structural Engineering Intern at IMEG ... Interned at Genzyme ... Accepted into Rensselaer's Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. program ... United Stated Nuclear Regulatory Committee, funded by the US NRC for doctoral in radiation hardened electronics ... Son of Laura and Allen Grome ... Cousin, Sarah Edwards, ran track (distance) at Virginia Tech. ... ACC Champion and All-America.

On attending Rensselaer: "Great engineering school that offered an aerospace program. I wanted a Division 3 school so I could balance academics and athletics evenly." - August 2020

"My strong interest in science stemmed from a long and internal curiosity I have always had. I've always wanted to know the how and why things work, pushing my boundaries of knowledge and breaking things down to the scientific level to truly understand concepts. My passion for space came from my curiosity when looking at the stars and wondering our place in the universe. It shouldn't go unnoted that this passion was also fueled by some great science fiction movies like Interstellar and The Martian that truly gave me a visual understanding of the size and impact the universe has. The aerospace program at RPI had coupled with it's excellent facilities, reputation and enrollment size made it my optimal choice." - July 2021

Benefits of undergraduate community: "Surrounded by an intelligent community that are all very determined." - August 2020