University of Wyoming Athletics

2025-26 (sophomore): Playing as an individual Purcell opened the season by finishing 38^th at the 54-hole Utah Valley Wolverine Invitational. She also finished 39th at the Thunderbird Classic, 58th at the Silicon Valley Showcase and 64th at the Ram Classic and 108th at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational in the fall. ... Purcell emerged as a fixture in UW's lineup during the spring. She shot 229 (+13) at the Cowgirl Classic to finish 76th and 238 (+22) at the Bobcat Desert Classic to finish 69th. At the Mountain West Championships, Purcell contributed to UW's fourth-place finish, the highest in program history, shooting 240 (+24) to finish 45th. 
 
2024-25 (freshman): Finished 45^th at the Cowgirl Classic after shooting 234 (+18) on the par-72, 6,191-yard Ak-Chin Southern Dunes golf course. … Finished 44^th at the Bobcat Desert Classic with a three-round score of 235 (+19).

Before Wyoming: Emerson Purcell helped lead her New Albany High team to DI State Championships in 2020 and 2021 and a state runner-up team finish in 2023.  DI is the largest classification in the state of Ohio.  Individually, Purcell placed in the Top 10 at the state championships four consecutive seasons, finishing 10th in 2020, fourth in 2021, seventh in 2022 and eighth in 2023.  She was named to the DI Second Team All-Ohio Team three seasons and earned First Team All-Ohio one year.  Purcell's New Albany Team won the Central District Team Championship all four years of her high school career.  She also earned Co-Player of the Year honors for the Ohio Capital Conference (OCC) during her high school career, and she won the District Individual Championship as a senior.  Purcell captured the individual championship at the 2022 Texas-Oklahoma Junior Invitational.  She was a qualifier for the Optimist Junior International in both 2022 and '23, and she qualified for the Future Champions Golf (FCG) World Championship.
 
During her high school career, Purcell was not only a four-year letter winner in golf, but she was also a four-year letter winner in symphonic choir.  She served as a student council member all four years of high school and participated in the Ohio Association of Student Leaders (OASL) Summer Leadership Workshop at The Ohio State University.  Purcell was a three-year Girl Up member and participated in their fashion show to focus attention on Human Trafficking Awareness.  She also served one year as a Life and Leadership Student-Athlete member.  She volunteers with the New Albany Food Pantry and the Miracle League of New Albany, which is a baseball and golf buddy program.  Purcell played for head golf coach Richard Ritter at New Albany High School.
 
She is the only child of Tricia and Jeremy Purcell.  Her parents were both collegiate athletes at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.  Her mother was a golfer and her father was an outfielder on the baseball team.  Purcell plans to study design, merchandising and textiles at UW.   She was also recruited by South Dakota and Utah Tech.