UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Emily Mabbitt concluded her four-year Blugold soccer career in 1997 with the school single season and career records for goals scored and total points. At the time of her induction, she still ranked second in career goals and points. Mabbitt was a three-time All-Conference midfielder, playing three years for Scott Martin and the inaugural season for head coach Sean Yengo. She was a consistent scorer all four years including 27 points (10 goals, 7 assists) as a freshman when the Blugolds captured a share of the regular season conference championship with a 6-0-1 mark. She followed with seasons of 28 (12+4), 25 (9+7) and 43 (17+9) points to finish with career totals of 48 goals, 27 assists and 123 points. Mabbitt led the league in goals (9) and points (20) as a sophomore, was fifth in goals (5) as a junior and fourth in goals (8), second in assists (7) and second in points (23) as a senior. She was the conference player of the week once as a senior, a season in which she also earned NSCAA Central Region Third Team honors. She was the team co-MVP as a junior and captain as a senior. The Blugolds were 24-5-2 in conference play and 45-30-4 overall during her career.
A member of the Minnesota Olympic Development team and a Rochester John Marshall team captain before she enrolled at UWEC, Mabbitt graduated with a Management Information Systems major in 1999. She has worked her entire career at 3M in the Twin Cities and at the time of her induction was IT Manager of End User Services. She has served in several positions within the company including Analyst, IT Supervisor, IT Project Lead, IT Plant/Lab Supervisor, IT Operations & Quality Manager and IT Manager of three different services. Mabbitt is a three-time Pyramid of Excellence nominee and twice received a Pyramid of Excellence Business Unit Award. She has been a volunteer for several United Way events at 3M and also served as a volunteer mentor for after school kids in the Minneapolis area and as a math tutor for a Woodbury elementary school. She served on a hospitality team for two years at the Valley Creek Church in Woodbury and as an Awana leader at Faith Community Church in Hudson for three years. Her family has sponsored a child with Compassion International for more than 13 years and in 2019 supported the Tutapona ministry for trauma rehabilitation in Uganda and Iraq. At the time of her induction, she and her husband Glen were parents of two children.
