Hokie Club2020-21: One of three Hokies to start in all of Tech's 17 games ... Logged the fifth-most minutes on the team (1,383) ... Fired the third-most shots on the team (18) while tallying two goals, including the game-winner at Boston College ... All-ACC Academic Team honoree.
2019: Appeared in all 19 matches, made 12 starts, including the last eight, and played a total of 967 minutes during the year … Took 23 shots, with 11 on goal … Registered her first collegiate assist on the second insurance goal in the team’s first match of the year, a 3-0 win over Liberty (8/22).
2018: Appeared in all 22 matches, with five starts … Made collegiate debut with a start in season opener versus San Diego (8/17) … Also made three straight starts against Villanova (9/7), ETSU (9/10) and Florida State (9/20) … Played 652 minutes during the season … Took 11 shots in total, four were on net … Scored her first collegiate goal versus High Point (8/26), which was also the game winner in the 2-1 victory.
Club: Was also the captain of the Penn Fusion Soccer Academy team in its inaugural season in 2017, which is part of the US Soccer Girls Development Academy ... The team was ranked No. 2 in the Atlantic East Division and 12th nationally ... Scored 13 goals and added 10 assists while helping her team earn a spot in the playoffs in San Diego at the end of June ... Prior to that, spent five years with Penn Fusion in the ECNL league and was on the state’s ODP team for three seasons, and once made the ODP Region I team and was a PDP Northeast Metro player in 2016.
High School: Played for coach Craig Reed and in her three-year high school career, scored 43 goals and added 25 assists earning three letters ... Was the captain of the team during her junior season when she led the league with 28 goals and was named an all-state player, a first team all-region and the league’s player of the year ... Helped the Cougars to a runner-up finish in the league and a berth in the state playoffs.
Personal: Emma Jane Steigerwald … Born June 12, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia … Daughter of Rob and Jane Steigerwald ... Has an older brother, Joe … Both of her grandfathers played football in college, Thomas B. Phillips, Jr., Class of 1950 B, was a captain at VMI, and Dave Steigerwald played at Case Western Reserve ... Majoring in marketing management.