Emily Spreeman

International career

Spreeman has represented the United States internationally in deaf soccer since the age of 15, when she started all six matches in the team's gold medal-winning debut at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics in Australia. She received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball at the 2016 World Deaf Football Championships in Italy, where the United States won gold. She led the team to win the 2023 World Deaf Football Championships in Malaysia, scoring 13 goals in six games, and repeated as the tournament's Golden Boot and Golden Ball winner.

Spreeman set a single-game team record with six goals against Australia on June 1, 2024, in an exhibition double header with the women's national team. As of 2024, she is the deaf national team's all-time leading scorer and the only active player from the team's original roster at the 2005 Deaflympics. She was born very hearing-impaired, which her family discovered when she was nine months old, and originally wore hearing aids in both ears and learned to speak. During her second year of high school, the little hearing she had in her right ear disappeared, after which she became increasingly deaf.

, Spreeman lives in Newport Beach, California. Outside of soccer, she works as a spa esthetician.