Emma Misal

Awards & Honors

• 2022 All-Big Ten Third Team
• 2x Academic All-Big Ten (2021-22)
• 2020-21 Big Ten All-Freshman Team

As a senior (2023 – Rutgers)

• Played in 10 matches with nine starts, missing time due to injury, chipping in with an assist from the back
• Missed all but one Big Ten match, including Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals due to injury, returning with 17 minutes in the NCAA Tournament match at Columbia (11/12)
• Assisted a goal during 7-0 win over FDU (8/28)

As a junior (2022 – Rutgers)

• Contributed to five shutouts on the backline during the 2022 regular season.
• Finished the regular season with a pair of 90-minute efforts on defense
• Started and contributed 64 minutes in the 2-0 defeat of Ohio State (9/18)
• Made season debut in the 3-2 home win over LSU (9/11)

As a sophomore (2021 – Rutgers): Started in 16 of 23 games…earned an assist in the 4-0 win over St. Louis in the second round of the NCAA tournament (11/19)…picked up an assist in the 5-0 win over La Salle (9/5).

As a freshman (2020-21 – Rutgers): Started all 16 games…assisted the equalizer in the 1-1, double-overtime draw with No. 6 Clemson (April 30)…aided the backline in back-to-back, 1-0 shutouts in the two games of Big Ten Regional Weekend, holding both opponents to single-digit shots on goal to advance to the Big Ten Semifinals (April 8 and 11) made her Scarlet Knight debut in 3-2 win over Penn State (Feb. 19).

Prior to Rutgers: U.S. Women’s National Team Under-18 call up in 2019…helped guide Penn Fusion to back-to-back, first-place finishes in the Atlantic Division of US Development Academy (2018, 2019)…named to Mid-Penn Commonwealth Division First Team and All-Sentinel Girls Soccer First Team in 2016…member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of Tina and Skip…has a brother, Ethan.