Emily Hess

Height:
5-4
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Batavia
Hometown:
Batavia, Ill.

Career Highlights

2016 All-BIG EAST Freshman Team
BIG EAST Freshman of the Week (8/29/16)
TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (8/30/16)
BIG EAST All-Academic (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20)

Career: Ended career with 68 starts in 77 matches, two goals and six assists in 6,090 minutes played.

2019 (Sr.): Started all 18 matches at left back and played a total of 1,635 minutes ... Recorded one goal and two assists ... Posted lone goal off a corner kick against Utah State (9/8) ... Notched assists against Providence (10/3) and at St. John's (10/10) ...

2018 (Jr.): Started all 18 matches at left back and played a total of 1,604 minutes ... Played every minute of MU's final eight matches and 16 minutes shy of every possible minute in BIG EAST action ... Starting left back played all but one minute (109) in the season opener at Cal Poly (8/16) ... Posted two assists on the year, one at Villanova (9/27) and one on Senior Day against Seton Hall (10/25).

2017 (So.): Started 15 of the 21 games she made an appearance in ... Made her first start of 2017 against Drake (8/25) and played 72 minutes ... Played all 90 minutes in shutouts of Central Michigan (9/1), Mercer (9/3) and Boston University (9/8).

2016 (Fr.): BIG EAST All-Freshman Team ... Started 18 of 20 matches in which she appeared as a freshman defender ... Posted a goal and an assist while making 20 corner kicks in 1,651 minutes ... Made first career start at Illinois State (Aug. 25) and scored first career goal on a corner kick ... Also posted an assist the following match against Michigan (Aug. 28) ... Honored as the BIG EAST Conference Freshman of the Week on Aug. 29 and named to the TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week on Aug. 30 ... Assisted on Eli Beard's overtime winner against DePaul (10/28) to help Marquette claim the BIG EAST's No. 1 seed in the league tournament and the regular season title.

Prior to Marquette: Hess played only club soccer during her high school career with Eclipse Select ECNL for head coach Rory Dames … Helped the Eclipse to back-to-back ECNL National Championships in 2013 and 2014 … Contributed to two Illinois State Cup Championships in 2013 and 2015 … 2013 USYSA National Champion … Member of Illinois 1997 ODP State Team from 2012-14 … Finalist in 2014 ODP National Championship … Named to “Best XI” at 2014 National Championship.

Personal: Born in Geneva, Illinois to Eric and Megan Hess … Has two siblings, Morgan and Jonathan … Majors in exercise physiology.