Emerson Etem

Emerson Etem
Born	(1992-06-16) June 16, 1992 Long Beach, CA, USA
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	210 lb (95 kg; 15 st 0 lb)
Position	Right Wing
Shoots	Left
NHL team (P) Cur. team	Anaheim Ducks Norfolk Admirals (AHL)
National team	United States
NHL Draft	29th overall, 2010 Anaheim Ducks
Playing career	2012–present

Medal record
Competitor for USA
Ice hockey
World Junior Championships
Bronze	2011 USA

Emerson Etem (born June 16, 1992) is an American ice hockey player currently playing for the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League. He is a first round draft pick of the Anaheim Ducks, selected 29th overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Early life

Etem comes from a family where rowing is popular, and his African-American mother Patricia made the U.S. Olympic rowing team, but due to the boycott, did not participate at the 1980 Games in Moscow. Patricia rowed in the four with coxswain at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Continuing with the rowing traditions of his family, Emerson's elder brother Martin is an Elite rower, who is training to compete for the US National Rowing Team. After a successful collegiate career at Syracuse, Martin most recently trialled at the 2012 National Selection Regatta in the Men's Heavyweight Double Scull. Emerson has an older sister Elise, who also has had a successful athletic career. She was Wilson HIgh School's Most Valuable Swimmer; swam for one season at University of California, Berkeley and then walked-on to the Women's Rowing team at Cal. She became a captain of the crew in her senior year and ended her career as the Pac-12 Athlete of the Year and a CRCA All-American.

Emerson followed his older brother Martin into roller then ice hockey. While watching Martin play with the Long Beach Jr. Ice Dogs in the 2003 National Tier II Championship tournament, he saw Sidney Crosby lead the Shattuck-Saint Mary's Sabers to the Tier I 17&under National Championship (held concurrently at The Gardens Ice House in Laurel, MD). Inspired by the caliber of players, coaching, and winning tradition of Sabers hockey, Etem moved to Minnesota at age 14 to play at Shattuck-Saint Mary's, where he led the Bantam team to a third place finish at the Tier I 14&under 2007 National Championship at Amherst, New York, in his freshman year. As the only sophomore on the Shattuck-Saint Mary's 2007–08 Midget Minor AAA team, Etem helped the Sabers win their second consecutive Tier I 17&under National Title - the first time in the school's history. In 2008–09 Etem moved to Michigan to play for the National Team Development Program.^[1] Etem is of mixed race as his father, Rick is Caucasian and his mother, Patricia is African-American.

Etem was drafted into the Western Hockey League (WHL) 115th overall by the Medicine Hat Tigers in the 2007 Bantam Draft. While playing for Medicine Hat in 2009–10, Etem led all WHL rookies in goals.

Professional career

Despite reaching the eighth spot in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's rankings, Etem saw his draft day go on longer than expected as he was drafted at 29th overall by the Anaheim Ducks. Etem scored his first career NHL goal on March 18, 2013 against Antti Niemi of the San Jose Sharks.

Career statistics

References

External links

• Emerson Etem's career statistics at EliteProspects.com
• Emerson Etem's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database