2020 Women's Gymnastics Roster
Shepard, Emily
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Emily Shepard
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Olathe, Kan.
- High School:
- Olathe South High School
- Height:
- 5-2
Bio
2024 WCGA Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year
2024 ACC Gymnast of the Year
2021 WCGA Region 5 Gymnast of the Year
2x EAGL Gymnast of the Year (2021, 2023)
2022 EAGL Individual Champion: Beam
2022 EAGL Individual Champion: All-Around
5x All-ACC Honoree
15x All-EAGL Honoree
2023 (Senior)
2022 (Junior)
2021 (Sophomore)
2020 (Freshman)
Prep/Personal:
2019 Level 10 Nationals: Fifth Place - Beam
2019 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Beam
2019 Level 10 Kansas State Runner-Up: Floor
2019 Level 10 Regionals: Fifth Place - Vault; Sixth Place - All-Around; Seventh Place - Floor; Eighth Place - Beam; Ninth Place - Bars
2018 JO Nationals Level 10: Seventh Place - Beam; 14th Place - All-Around
2018 Level 10 Regional Champion: Vault
2018 Level 10 Regional: Second Place - All-Around; Fourth Place - Bars; Fifth Place - Floor, Beam
2018 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Bars, Beam, All-Around
2018 Level 10 Kansas State: Second Place - Vault; Fifth Place - Floor
2017 Level 10 Regional: Fourth Place - Beam; Sixth Place - All-Around; Eighth Place - Bars; 11th Place - Floor
2017 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Vault, Beam, All-Around
2017 Level 10 Kansas State: Second Place - Floor, Bars
2016 Level 9 Westerns: Ninth Place - Floor; 10th Place - All-Around; 11th Place - Bars; 12th Place - Beam
2016 Level 9 Regional Champion: Beam, Floor, All-Around
2016 Level 9 Regional: Third Place - Vault, Bars
2016 Level 9 Kansas State Champion: Bars, Beam, All-Around
2016 Level 9 Kansas State: Third Place - Vault; Fourth Place - Floor
Coached by Holly Emmot, Jeremy Bourdette and Katja Bullock at Diamond Academy
Career Highs
2024 ACC Gymnast of the Year
2021 WCGA Region 5 Gymnast of the Year
2x EAGL Gymnast of the Year (2021, 2023)
2022 EAGL Individual Champion: Beam
2022 EAGL Individual Champion: All-Around
5x All-ACC Honoree
- 2024 All-ACC Gymnastics Team: All Around
- 2024 All-ACC Gymnastics Team: Vault
- 2024 All-ACC Gymnastics Team: Beam
- 2024 All-ACC Gymnastics Team: Floor
- 2024 All-ACC Gymnastics Team: Bars
15x All-EAGL Honoree
- 2023 First Team: Vault
- 2023 First Team: Bars
- 2023 First Team: Floor
- 2023 First Team: All-Around
- 2023 Second Team: Beam
- 2022 First Team: Bars
- 2022 First Team: Beam
- 2022 First Team: Floor
- 2021 First Team: Vault
- 2021 First Team: Bars
- 2021 First Team: Floor
- 2021 First Team: All-Around
- 2020 First Team: Vault
- 2020 First Team: Bars
- 2020 Second Team: Floor
- 2023 First Team: Vault
- 2023 First Team: Bars
- 2022 First Team: Vault
- 2022 First Team: Bars
- 2022 First Team: Beam
- 2022 First Team: Floor
- 2022 First Team: All-Around
- 2021 First Team: Vault
- 2021 First Team: Beam
- 2021 First Team: All-Around
- 2021 Second Team: Bars
2024 (Senior)
- Named 2024 Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association
- Led the Wolfpack to ACC regular season and championship titles in league’s first year sponsoring the sport since 1984
- Earned the ACC’s inaugural conference Gymnast of the Year crown
- Received All-ACC honors on all four events and as an all-arounder to conclude her career with 20 All-Conference recognitions
- Was the only gymnast in the ACC to earn All-ACC marks on four events and as an all-arounder
- Earned nine total ACC Gymnast of the Week Awards during the campaign, including seven in a row
- Finished season with 18 scores of 9.900 or above throughout the year
- Opened season with a 9.850 on floor in dual-meet loss to Georgia on Jan. 6
- Posted a 39.150 score in the all-around competition at Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad on Jan. 13
- Tabbed four podium finishes and the all-around title, scoring a 39.475, in win over Pitt on Jan. 26
- Fired the highest all-around total (39.750) in program history during the Pack's Feb. 17 dual meet against Clemson
- That total also marked the top all-around total ever fired by a gymnast at an ACC school
- Won the all around title at the ACC Championship with a score of 39.500
- Earned All-Championship honors on bars, beam, floor and the all-around at the 2024 ACC Championship
2023 (Senior)
- Named NC State's first two-time EAGL Gymnast of the Year at EAGL Championships
- Recorded a team-high 34 podium finishes, 15 of which were medalist honors
- Tied NC State’s best all-around score in program history on Mar. 4 against Rutgers at 39.550
- Matched NC State’s all-time record of 9.900+ scores on bars with ten
- Broke the program all-time record of most 39.000+ all-around scores with 28
- Competed all-around in each of NC State’s 14 meets
- Tallied 13 scores of 9.900+ on the year
- Posted a career-high 9.950 on floor against Rutgers
- Improved her career high to 9.925 on bars, hitting that number twice during the season
- Matched her career best of 9.900 on vault on three occasions
- Registered a season-high 9.875 on beam during tri-meet against George Washington and Pitt
- All-EAGL First Team: Vault
- All-EAGL First Team: Bars
- All-EAGL First Team: Floor
- All-EAGL First Team: All-Around
- All-EAGL Second Team: Beam
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Vault
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Bars
- All-EAGL Scholastic Team
2022 (Junior)
- Became NC State's first EAGL individual champion on any event since 2019, winning the beam and all-around titles
- Was the first Wolfpack gymnast to win two EAGL individual titles in the same year since 2014
- Was the only gymnast at the 2022 EAGL Championships to garner All-Tournament First Team accolades on all four events and the all-around
- Set the program record for career 9.9+ marks at 25
- Upped her beam career best to 9.925 at the EAGL Championships
- Tied her personal highs on floor (9.925) and all-around (39.500) during the 2022 season
- Compiled the most podium finishes of anyone on the team with 22, eight of which were individual titles
- Was one of two Wolfpack gymnasts to score a 9.900 or higher on two events in 2022
- Strung together a four-meet streak of 9.9+ marks on beam
- Led the team on beam in nine meets, on floor in seven meets and on bars in three meets
- Week 2 EAGL Specialist of the Week
- Week 7 EAGL Co-Specialist of the Week
- Week 8 EAGL Co-Gymnast of the Week
- All-EAGL First Team: Bars
- All-EAGL First Team: Beam
- All-EAGL First Team: Floor
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Vault
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Bars
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Beam
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Floor
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: All-Arounnd
2021 (Sophomore)
- Was NC State’s first individual Nationals qualifier since 2015
- Posted a 9.8875 on floor at NCAA Semifinal II for the highest score by an NC State individual on any one event
- Attained a career-best 9.900 on bars in a tri-meet at Pittsburgh with Towson that she tied five more times during the season
- Posted a 9.900 for a career high on vault in a tri-meet at Pittsburgh with Towson, which she tied three times throughout the rest of the season
- Recorded her beam career best of 9.900 in a dual meet at New Hampshire
- Tabbed a 9.925 on floor at NCAA Regionals Round 2 to set a career high
- Compiled a career-best all-around mark of 39.500 in a dual meet at New Hampshire that she tied two more times
- 39.500 all-around mark tied the third-best all-around score in program history
- Only member of the Wolfpack to compete all-around in every meet of the season
- Collected a team-leading 42 podium finishes of which 23 were individual titles
- Posted 16 scores of at least 9.900 over the course of the season, good for the fifth-most career 9.9+ marks in program history
- In five meets tabbed a 9.900 on two events, the only member of the team to post more than one 9.9 score in a single meet
- Led the team on vault in nine meets, on bars in seven meets, on beam in seven meets and on floor in five meets
- WCGA Region 5 Gymnast of the Year
- EAGL Gymnast of the Year
- Week 1 EAGL Gymnast of the Week
- Week 2 EAGL Gymnast of the Week
- Week 6 EAGL Gymnast of the Week
- Week 7 EAGL Gymnast of the Week
- All-EAGL First Team: Vault
- All-EAGL First Team: Bars
- All-EAGL First Team: Floor
- All-EAGL First Team: All-Around
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team Vault
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: Beam
- EAGL All-Tournament First Team: All-Around
- EAGL All-Tournament Second Team: Bars
- All-EAGL Scholastic Team
2020 (Freshman)
- Competed in every meet of the season
- Tabbed podium finishes on vault in the first eight meets of the season, five of which were individual titles
- Posted career-high 9.875 on vault in a quad meet at Kentucky and tied that score one more time during the season
- Tabbed career best on bars of 9.875 in a tri meet with North Carolina and New Hampshire and tied her career high one more time
- Attained career-best 9.875 on floor in a dual meet with North Carolina and tied the score one more time over the course of the season
- Made her all-around debut in quad meet at Penn State, posting a 39.150
- Achieved 18 podium finishes, including nine individual titles
- Led the team on vault in all 10 meets of the season
- Led the squad on bars in five meets
- Led the team on floor in one meet
- Week 7 EAGL Rookie of the Week
- All-EAGL First Team: Vault
- All-EAGL First Team: Bars
- All-EAGL Second Team: Floor
- All-EAGL Academic Team
Prep/Personal:
2019 Level 10 Nationals: Fifth Place - Beam
2019 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Beam
2019 Level 10 Kansas State Runner-Up: Floor
2019 Level 10 Regionals: Fifth Place - Vault; Sixth Place - All-Around; Seventh Place - Floor; Eighth Place - Beam; Ninth Place - Bars
2018 JO Nationals Level 10: Seventh Place - Beam; 14th Place - All-Around
2018 Level 10 Regional Champion: Vault
2018 Level 10 Regional: Second Place - All-Around; Fourth Place - Bars; Fifth Place - Floor, Beam
2018 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Bars, Beam, All-Around
2018 Level 10 Kansas State: Second Place - Vault; Fifth Place - Floor
2017 Level 10 Regional: Fourth Place - Beam; Sixth Place - All-Around; Eighth Place - Bars; 11th Place - Floor
2017 Level 10 Kansas State Champion: Vault, Beam, All-Around
2017 Level 10 Kansas State: Second Place - Floor, Bars
2016 Level 9 Westerns: Ninth Place - Floor; 10th Place - All-Around; 11th Place - Bars; 12th Place - Beam
2016 Level 9 Regional Champion: Beam, Floor, All-Around
2016 Level 9 Regional: Third Place - Vault, Bars
2016 Level 9 Kansas State Champion: Bars, Beam, All-Around
2016 Level 9 Kansas State: Third Place - Vault; Fourth Place - Floor
Coached by Holly Emmot, Jeremy Bourdette and Katja Bullock at Diamond Academy
Career Highs
Event | Score |
Vault | 9.900 |
Bars | 9.925 |
Beam | 9.925 |
Floor | 9.950 |
All-Around | 39.550 |