"The opportunities offered through Coaches across Continents to young females around the world is one that I support totally.  I have been so fortunate to have ’choices’ in my life, to attend Harvard University, to play professional soccer in the WUSA and now to start a family.  Women everywhere should have ’choices’ and perhaps the only way that we can make change to their lives is to show other ways of living and allow women around the world the opportunity to decide their own lives"

Emily Stauffer


Emily Stauffer was named first-team all-American in 1995 and 1996, and first-team all-Ivy League Conference in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. In 1995 and 1996, Stauffer was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, and she was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1994. She was a four-time NSCAA/Umbro all-American and a member of the Women’s Youth National Soccer Team from 1991 to 1996. In 1995, she was selected for the Olympic Festival all-Star Team. She was named a GTE/CoSIDA Academic all-American in 1996, 1997 and 1999, graduating in January 1999 with a 3.559 grade-point average with a major in government. In 1994, she was a McDonald’s Scholar Athlete.  Emily played for the New York Power in the WUSA.

Stauffer’s community service includes working as an instructor for Play Soccer Inc., serving as the Evening with Champions public service chair from 1995 to 1999, volunteering as an after-school teacher and a Boston Women in Sports Day volunteer. In addition, she helped lead her team to an NCAA Tournament bid after donating bone marrow cells to her brother who passed away in 1998 after a battle with leukemia.