2024 Field Hockey Roster

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15 Emma Leppert

  • Class Senior
  • Position Goalkeeper
  • Highschool Bishop Shanahan
  • Hometown West Chester, Pa.

Biography

CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll 2022: September 26
2023: September 19
OPA Winning Teams/NFHCA National Academic Squad 2021, 2022, 2023
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

Career: Talented goalkeeper who started in goal during the 2022 and 2023 seasons … Has tallied over 1700 minutes in goal for Villanova… Ranks in the top 20 in school history for career saves (155), career games with 10+ saves (3), career saves per game (4.19), career save percentage (.640), career goalkeeper wins (16) and career goals against average (2.99) … Has appeared in 37 games with 30 starts during her collegiate career while playing 1747 minutes in the cage … Career totals include 155 saves and 87 goals allowed while posting a .640 save percentage and a 2.99 goals-against average … Owns record of 16-12 and has faced a total of 435 shots … Registered one career shot at Towson on October 9, 2022 … Earned a win in her collegiate debut and had five saves during her freshman season … Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll twice … Three-time member of the NFHCA National Academic Squad and the BIG EAST All-Academic Team … Six-time member of the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
 
2024: Appeared in four games, with one start … Started and earned a win against Fairfield (Oct. 27) in her last home game as a Wildcat … Posted two saves in seven scoreless minutes at UConn (Oct. 4) … Played 30 scoreless minutes in a team shutout of Mercyhurst (Sept. 9) … Played 99 minutes in goal, including a season high 60 vs. Fairfield.
 
2023: Started in all 17 games she appeared in for the Wildcats making 75 saves on the year… Had a 0.600 save percentage and recorded her first career shutout on September 3rd against Longwood… Earned a BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll Appearance for the week of September 19th for her stellar nine save performance in the 2-1 win over Saint Francis… Tallied a career high 11 saves in the loss to Old Dominion on October 13th.
 
2022: Appeared in 14 games with 12 starts on the season to transition into a go-to choice in goal on the Wildcats starting line … … Finished the season ranking 3rd  in the BIG EAST for goalie win-loss percentage (0.600) and saves per game (4.93) … Played a total of 723:11 in net for the year and compiled a 2.57 goals-against average and a .702 save percentage … Made 73 saves while allowing 31 goals … Had a 6-4 record … Recorded a season high 11 saves in an overtime 2-1 win at Penn … Registered one shot on goal against Towson on October 9 …  Made her first collegiate start at Penn, playing into overtime in the 2-1 victory and making 11 saves while allowing one goal after facing 15 shots … Recorded 10 saves and faced 24 shots at Lehigh in the tough 2-1 loss … Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on September 27, 2022.
 
2021: Saw time in the cage against both Lehigh and VCU early in the season … Recorded five saves and allowed three goals while playing a total of 45 minutes … Had a .625 save percentage and a 4.00 goals-against average … Earned the win in her collegiate debut when she played the second half of a 4-3 win over Lehigh in the season opener … Made two saves and allowed one goal … Stopped three shots in the fourth quarter against VCU.
 
Club Field Hockey: Attended international training at the Martin Drijver Goalkeeper Academy in Amsterdam in 2019 … Played for Main Line Mayhem and was a teammate of current Villanova seniors Meghan Mitchell and Mia Coval … Was part of a team that won a 2019 U19 NIT pool championship … Tallied three shutouts and was the lone goalkeeper on that team … In 2018 helped her team win the Pool A championship at the U19 Shooting Stars tournament where the squad was 5-0 and tallied five shutouts … Also in 2018 played for Main Line’s first international team which traveled to Scotland and posted two shutouts while going 5-0 … In 2018 and 2019 was selected for the Mayhem Leadership Program which is designed to give top high school athletes the opportunity to shadow and assist the Mayhem coaching staff in order to learn key skills needed to teach and motivate young female athletes.
 
Bishop Shanahan High School: Four-year member of the field hockey team and was the lone goalkeeper on the junior varsity squad for two years as well as the varsity team her junior and senior seasons … Named the 2020 Daily Local Player of the Year … Two-time Ches-Mont All-League first team honoree as a junior and a senior and was also an all-area selection each of those years … At the end of the 2019 season ranked second in save percentage (.880) and seventh in goals-against average (0.91) out of 112 schools tracked by Philafieldhockey.com …  Helped her team post the best record in school history in 2019 with a 16-2 mark and 11 shutouts … Elected team captain as a senior and was her school’s first goalkeeper to be a team captain … Winner of the Bishop Shanahan Coaches Award as a senior … As a junior and a senior achieved First Honors status academically and was named to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Fall Sports Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll … Earned honorable mention in the 2020 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Science national competition for a project titled “Artificial Intelligence Advances the CAT Scan” … Served as Co-President of Catholic Athletes and secretary of Community Service Corp in 2020-21, as well as being a four-year homeroom representative for Community Service Corp.
 
Personal: Born 3/11/03 in West Chester, Pa. … Youngest of three daughters of Jeffrey and Kathleen Leppert … Has two older sisters, Rachel (28) and Rebecca (23) … Likes to spend her free time with family and friends at the beach … Has a boating license and enjoys fishing and tubing … Noted that Villanova had always been her dream school … Chose to attend because of its rigorous curriculum and great academic reputation, the values she shares with the field hockey coaching staff, the opportunity to continue her Catholic education at a school with an Augustinian identity and the chance to be a part of a student body full of pride and school spirit … Plans to major in Liberal Studies.

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Historical Player Information

  • 15

    2021Freshman

    Goalkeeper
    15
  • 15

    2022Sophomore

    Goalkeeper
    15
  • 15

    2023Junior

    Goalkeeper
    15
  • 15

    2024Senior

    Goalkeeper
    15