IU Women's Soccer adds CMU xfer Emily Basten

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Welcome aboard! Sounds like a solid pick up for our Defense. An all around champ!

 

Indiana women's soccer head coach Amy Berbary announced that Emily Basten (Hoffman Estates, Ill./William Fremd HS/Central Michigan) has transferred to Indiana University. She will enroll in classes at IU starting January 2015 and will be eligible to play starting with the 2015 fall season. Basten played the last three seasons at Central Michigan and will be a senior for the Hoosiers.

 

“We are thrilled to be adding a very experienced defender to our roster this spring,” Berbary said. “Emily’s energy and enthusiasm could prove to be contagious within our team and can help us achieve our post season goals.”

 

Basten (pronounced ‘Bast-in’) has appeared in 54 career games with the Chippewas, and was in the starting lineup for 42 of those contests. As a defender at CMU, she was a part of 26 shutouts over the last three seasons, including seven during the 2014 campaign. This past season, while serving as a team captain, Basten recorded points for the first time in her career with a pair of assists on game-winning goals for the Chippewas.

 

As a sophomore, she started all 20 games as CMU went 8-4 in conference play and posted seven shutouts overall.

 

In her first season at Central Michigan, Basten played in 17 games and made eight starts to help CMU post a 15-7-1 overall record and a 10-2 mark in MAC play. That 2012 freshman campaign proved to be a historical one for the Chippewas, with the team receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament - the first ever at-large bid in women’s soccer for the MAC. Central Michigan would go on to lose at Michigan, 2-1 in overtime, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Her defensive efforts helped the team record 12 shutouts on the year, which ranked among the best in the country that year.

 

Basten attended William Fremd High School near Chicago, where she was a three-time all-conference selection and earned 2012 IHSSCA all-sectional team honors while playing for head coach Steve Keller. She was named team MVP following her senior year while also garnering the 2012 IHSA Scholastic Achievement Award and all-academic Mid-Suburban league honors. She played club soccer for Hoffman United Soccer Club under coach Kim Crowe-Cop and was a three-year captain of the team.

 

After working towards a degree in Biomedical Science at Central Michigan, Basten will major in Neuroscience at IU. At CMU, she represented the school at the MAC Leadership Symposium on two occasions and was also on the school’s student-athlete advisory committee the last two seasons. In addition, she served as one of the student-athlete representatives on the CMU Athletic Department Committee, helping to provide the student-athlete’s voice within the department. While earning Academic All-MAC Honorable Mention in 2013, she was named to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and served as a mentor in the CMU CHAMPS Freshman Mentor Program.

 

Off the field, Basten has competed internationally in Tae Kwon Do, earning a second-degree black belt. She was the Illinois State Champion gold medalist seven times and has participated in the U.S. Open competition for Tae Kwon Do. :good: 

 

She is the daughter of Mark and Sharon Basten and has one brother, Collin. 

 

http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/121714aaa.html

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7-time champ black belt in tae kwon do, college team captain, majoring in neuroscience... her future isnt bright at all.  helluva pick-up.  gotta keep this superhuman in btown or indianapolis after she obtains her master's - cook or lilly, perhaps.

berbary has done a nice job here in her first two seasons as hc.  under contract through 2019.  hopefully the program keeps rising and we dont lose her to a powerhouse.  i imagine those big southern schools are very appealing to her though, from and having played at georgia and coached in a couple southern states.  wouldnt blame her.

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Congratulations Emily! Sounds like IUWS is picking up a student-athlete with a great resume.