2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 7
Emilie Castagna
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Bournemouth, England
- High School:
- Bournemouth School for Girls
- Prev School:
- Southampton FC
- Major:
- Undeclared
2023
- Big West Championship MVP
- Big West Offensive Player of the Week, Sept. 25
- Played all 24 matches starting 11 for 1,485 minutes
- Scored four goals with two coming in Big West action
- Added three assists for 11 points
- Big West Fall All-Academic
- Joined track & field team in Spring 2024
- Ran 800m at Steve Scott Invitational placing second
- Finished fourth in Big West Championship in 800m at a time of 2:11
2022
- Named to Big West All-Freshman Team
- Played in 21 matches starting once as a freshman for 811 minutes
- Scored one goal, her first career points coming at USC September 15
- Added two assists for four total points
- Put home the winning penalty kick in NCAA Second Round penalty shootout vs. Brown to help UCI advance
- Attended the Bournemouth School for Girls
- Played soccer along with tennis, volleyball, cross country, rounders, netball, cricket, and badminton
- 2016 State Champion in the 800m
- Finished 11th in 2018 NationalsΒ in cross country
- Won five league titles in soccer, four-time county champion, 2020 National Champions
- Two-time tennis county champion
- Four-time rounders state champion and two-time regional champion
- Fifth-time netball state champion and reached regional qualifier once
- Two-time cricket national champion
- Played for the Southampton Academy from 2018-22
- Represented AFC Bournemouth in premier league schools tournament in Stamford Bridge coming in second
- Reached FA Youth Cup Final with Southampton u16
- Originally born in Poole, UK
- Mom attended London Polytechnic University
- Dad played soccer in college
- Has a younger brother
- Is part English, Italian, French, and Spanish; can speakΒ French
- Fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, supportsΒ Liverpool - also chose #28Β because Ronaldo wore it at his first club, Sporting CP
- Enjoys sports, surfing and bodyboarding, and chilling
- Enjoys watching her favorite movie, The Notebook, her favorite TV shows, Selling Sunset, Love Island, and Made in Chelsea, and the musical stylings of Dave
- Won Best New Cadet and Beset Cadet in different army camps in Combined Cadet Force
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