Gruda averaged 13.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game for EuroLeague Women Final Four participants UMMC Ekaterinburg.  while she did not play for France in their successful attempt to qualify for EuroBasket Women 2009 in Latvia she did spend summer of 2008 with the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA.  Gruda was the 2006 FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year.