Cadence Brace Season 2025-26
2025 ITA Singles All-American
2025 ITA Doubles All-American
2025 All-SEC First Team
2025 ITA Rookie of the Year
2025 SEC Freshman of the Year
2025 All-Freshman Team
2025 SEC Freshman of the Week (3X)
2025 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
FRESHMAN SEASON (2024-25)
Consensus top option for the Tigers in her debut season…Named SEC Freshman of the Year with three SEC Freshman of the Week awards…Earned first-team All-SEC and All-Freshman team honors…Concluded season with 14 singles wins in the top spot behind 11 ranked victories…Ended the campaign on a seven-match winning streak dating back to March 28 against Vanderbilt…Highlight victories include Tennessee’s then-No. 5 Elza Tomase, 6-3, 6-1, in LSU’s 4-0 win over Tennessee…Clinched the 4-3 comeback victory over South Carolina’s then-No. 19 Sarah Hamner in a thrilling 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(6) victory…Earned a final ITA singles ranking of No. 8…Teamed up with freshman Kayla Cross in doubles as one of the top pairings in the country with a No. 6 ITA ranking, ranking as high as No. 3…Finished with a 12-4 record with nine ranked victories with Cross…Highlight victories include a 6-2 result over UCLA’s then-No. 9 Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle in LSU’s 4-2 victory over the Bruins at the ITA National Indoor Championship, and a 6-3 win over Georgia’s then-No. 13 Dasha Vidmanova and Mell Reasco to help clinch the doubles point over the Bulldogs…Named an ITA singles and doubles All-American after the season…Became the fourth Tiger in program history to earn both singles and doubles All-America honors in the same season, joining Bruna Colosio (2000), Joana Valle Costa (2017), and Anastasiya Komar (2023)…Had success in the classroom and was named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll…Active on the pro tour, concluding her freshman year with a WTA No. 296 ranking in singles and WTA No. 374 in doubles… Won the doubles title at the W35 Le Lamentin…Reached the semifinals in the W75 Rome, W35 Le Lamentin, W75 Calgary, and the W75 Templeton in singles…Qualified for the U.S. Open…Earned her first varsity letter at LSU.
HIGH SCHOOL
A native of Toronto, Canada, Brace is regarded as one of the top prospects in the nation before landing at LSU… Brace holds a WTA Ranking of #452, with a career-high of #358… UTR stands at 11.01 in singles and 10.38 in doubles… In June 2024, she claimed her first professional singles title at the ITF 35k event in Wichita, Kansas… Other notable results from the year include singles quarterfinal appearances at ITF 35k events in Spain, Colombia, and Guadeloupe and semifinal appearances at ITF 35k and 75k events in Spain and Sumter, SC, respectively… Known as being a finalist at the W15 Lambare in Paraguay in 2021… The following year, Brace took down No. 70 Kaja Juvan and No. 79 Claire Liu… In 2021, Brace won the state championship in singles and doubles at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.