Cheta Emba
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| Born | July 26, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Harvard University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cheta Emba (born July 16, 1993) is an American rugby union player. She has competed for the United States in the 2017 and 2025 Women's Rugby World Cups. She has also represented the U.S. women's sevens team in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Early career
[edit | edit source]Emba attended Maggie L. Walker Governor's School, she was a goalkeeper on the soccer team and a forward on the basketball team. She played soccer and began her rugby career in her junior year at Harvard University where she majored in molecular cellular biology with a minor in Spanish.[1] She received All-Academic and All-Conference honors while at Harvard.[2]
Rugby career
[edit | edit source]In her senior year she was selected for the Eagles squad to the 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series in Canada.[3] She debuted for the United States in 2016 and was selected for the squad to the 2017 Rugby World Cup in Ireland.[4][5][6] Emba competed for the U.S. women's sevens team in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[2]
Emba was selected to represent the United States at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[7][8]
At the club level, she has played for NOVA and Beantown Rugby Club.[9] She is also a member of the Boston Banshees in the inaugural season of the Women's Elite Rugby league. In 2025, she started in the Eagles test against Japan which her side lost 33–39 in Los Angeles on April 26.[10][11]
On July 17, 2025, she was named in the Eagles side to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England.[12][13]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Cheta Emba at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
- Cheta Emba at Harvard Crimson
- Cheta Emba at USA Rugby
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- Cheta Emba at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games (archived, alternate link)
- 1993 births
- Living people
- American female rugby union players
- United States women's international rugby union players
- Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies alumni
- American female rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Rugby sevens players at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rugby sevens
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in rugby sevens
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for the United States
- American women's soccer players
- Soccer players from Richmond, Virginia
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- Harvard Crimson women's soccer players
- Harvard Crimson rugby players
- 21st-century African-American sportswomen
- African-American rugby union players
- 21st-century African-American sportsmen
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- Rugby union fullbacks
- United States international rugby sevens players
- Rugby union players from Virginia
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Women's Elite Rugby players