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University of California, Santa Barbara

2025 Women's Soccer Roster

Lexi Brintle // UC Santa Barbara Athletics Intern
Jeff Liang
Lauren Washington
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22 Emily Caughey

  • Height 5-5
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Woodland Hills, Calif.
  • High School Geffen Academy at UCLA
  • Position Defender

Biography

2025: All-Big West Second Team Selection … Named The Big West Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 15) … Appeared in 22 matches making 21 starts for UC Santa Barbara … Scored two goals and recorded one assist on the season … Goals came against Sacramento State (Sept. 14) and UC Irvine (Nov. 2) … Her goal against UC Irvine in the First Round of The Big West Championships went down as the game winner … Her lone assist came against New Mexico (Sept. 11) … Ended the season with 19 shots on goal which led the team and a shot accuracy percentage of 59.4 percent.

2024: All-Big West First Team...Started all 23 matches for the Gauchos...Appeared for the full time in 18 of those...Assisted the game winning goal in the 78th minute at Cal Poly (Sept. 19)…Scored her first career goal in the 79th minute against UC Irvine (Oct. 6)…the only goal scored in the Gaucho shutout victory...Played a career-high 100 minutes against Cal State Bakersfield (Nov. 10) to help secure The Big West Championship title and send the Gauchos to the NCAA Tournament. 

2023: The freshman started 15 contests, and made appearances in 18 out of the 19 matches on the season... logging one assist against Cal St. Fullerton (Oct. 1). Big West All-Freshman Team Selection.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB: Attended Geffen Academy at UCLA competing in soccer...Earned three varsity letters...Named All-League MVP, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-League and Team Captain...Won the League Championship in 2023...Appeared in the CIF Playoffs in 2022 and 2023 making it to the semifinals in 2022...Played for Real So Cal, Eagles, Real So Cal DA and ECNL and LAFC - So Cal ECNL...Named All-ECNL First Team selection in 2023...Earned All-ECNL Secon Team honors in 2022.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Jessica Caughey and Jack Caughey...has a younger brother, Malcom Caughey...Plans to major in psychology, sociology and criminology...Plans to pursue a career as a professional soccer player or forensic psychologist...Her favorite sports team is the Denver Nuggets...Her most memorable sports moment was saying goodbye to her club team on senior night as she played with most of the team for close to 12 years...Her favorite movie is Coraline...Her favorite TV show is Criminal Minds...Her favorite novel is Heidi...Her favorite artists are Kenny Rogers and The Kooks...Her hobbies include surfing, reading, hiking, being outside, hanging out with friends and family, journaling and painting...Her favorite athlete is Sam Mewis.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 38

    2023Freshman

    Defender
    5'5"
    38
  • 22

    2024Sophomore

    Defender
    5'5"
    22
  • 22

    2025Junior

    Defender
    5'5"
    22