Cheta Emba
Born	(1993-07-26) July 26, 1993 (age 32) Richmond, Virginia
Alma mater	Harvard University
Rugby player
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Full back (XV), Wing (XV), Prop (7s), Wing (7s) Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) Boston Banshees 2 (2) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2015- United States 17 (15) National sevens team Years Team Comps 2016 United States 33
Medal record Women's rugby sevens Representing  United States Pan American Games 2019 Lima Team competition
Association football career Position Goalkeeper Youth career 2007–2011 Governor's Green Dragons College career Years Team Apps (Gls) 2011–2014 Harvard Crimson 35 (0)

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

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

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

External links

• Cheta Emba at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
• Cheta Emba at Harvard Crimson
• Cheta Emba at USA Rugby
• Cheta Emba at Team USA (archive)
• Cheta Emba at Olympics.com
• Cheta Emba at Olympedia
• Cheta Emba at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games (archived, alternate link)