Grace Alley was named the 2024 NCAA DIII Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Field Athlete of the Year. Alley, who hails from Seneca, Illinois, scored 24 points in field events at the 2024 NCAA DIII Indoor Track & Field Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She won both the high jump and pentathlon and finished fourth in the triple jump. Alley started the season with a bang, shattering the nine-year-old NCAA DIII record in the pentathlon with 3986 points at the Finals Week Invitational that included a long jump PR of 5.87m (19-3¼). She was busy at the A-R-C Indoor Championships, winning the high jump, pentathlon, and the triple jump.