Emily Keck receives C-USA Spirit of Service Award

Charlotte women’s soccer goalkeeper Emily Keck was recognized with Conference USA’s Spirit of Service Award for the fall season.

The C-USA Spirit of Service Award recognizes the community service efforts of the league’s student-athletes. Conference USA awards the honor three times during the school year, after each of the fall, winter and spring sports seasons.

Keck was chosen as Charlotte’s representative for women’s soccer this fall and won the honor with her community service, good academic standing and participation on the soccer team.

She spent more than 20 hours during the fall soccer season volunteering in the Charlotte community. She worked with Niner Elementary Welcome Back Day, Kids Soccer Shootout, Urban Ministry Promise and was a competition assistant for the Special Olympics. In the classroom, she holds a 3.77 GPA while majoring in biology and is enrolled in the University Honors Program.

The Hilliard, Ohio, native earned a Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal in 2021 and was named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll in 2022, in addition to appearing on Charlotte’s Athletics Director’s List each semester she has been enrolled.

Keck played in seven matches this season, including beginning the season as Charlotte’s starting goalkeeper. She made nine stops in her CLT debut in the season-opener against UNCG, the second-most saves any Charlotte keeper has had in their first match in the Green and White in program history. She then followed that up with seven stops in a draw with Richmond in the home opener three days later.

She becomes the third different women’s soccer player in program history to earn the award, joining Martha Thomas (2016) and three-time recipient Mary Manser (2017, ’18, ’19).