University of California, Santa Barbara

2023: Appeared in 16 matches, making three starts.. Big West All-Academic selection... recorded a goal against LMU (Aug. 17). 

2022: Appeared in 14 matches, starting in two for the Gauchos...Recorded four shots with two being on goal.

2021: Appeared in all 19 matches, making 12 starts...Recorded her only goal of the season against UC Davis on Sept. 30...Registered 15 shots on the season...Finished the season with one assist.

CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Bedes School in East Sussex, U.K...Also attended Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC)...Helped her school to its first U.K. National Championship ever, scoring a hat trick in the final...At the club level, competed for Brighton & Hove Albion...Member of the ISFA U-16 National Team.

PERSONAL: Leila Berri Emmerson was born May 14, 2002, in Brighton, U.K...Her parents are Helen and Nick Emmerson...Has one sister, Amaia, and a brother, Kepa...Her favorite sports team is Newcastle United...Her most memorable sports moment was coming in fourth in the javelin at a National Athletics competition at the age of 13 after having learned to throw it three weeks earlier...Another memorable moment was scoring a goal on a bicycle kick against Arsenal...Her favorite movies are The Graduate and La Haine...Her favorite bands/musicians include A Tribe Called Quest, Blood Orange, and Amy Winehouse...Her favorite TV shows are Arrested Development, Peaky Blinders, and Fleabag...Her favorite athletes are Alan Shearer and Serena Williams...Her favorite movies are One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest and The Great Gatsby...Emmerson is half-Basque...Hopes to major in film and media...Would like to become a footballer or work in television like her dad.