Emily Curlett

Everything I have and everything I am is yours, Lord.

Totus Tuus.

Where I serve

After a lifetime of pursing sports, God called me out of professional hockey to serve the next generation of college students at The University of Northern Iowa. UNI Fight!

My Story

Like most student-athletes, sports had been my identity since I was a kid. In college, I progressively had more success, made more friends, was more involved in nonprofits, and became more a product of college culture. Despite pursuing more of what I was told would make me happy, no amount of points, grades, likes, or titles could fix my anxiety, perfectionism, and lack of self-worth. At the end of my junior year, I hit a rock bottom— it was there that God met me, and I chose to start asking God for answers instead of searching in all other places.

God used the next few years to shift my identity from what I produced and how I performed in sport, to who created me and who I was created to be in life. He taught me through success, failure, suffering, and injuries to be open to the plan that he had for me. It was after a back injury, being cut from my ‘dream job,’ and a lot of prayer that I said yes to God calling me to something bigger than the familiarity and comfort of being a hockey player: And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; come, follow me.” (Mark 10: 21).

Colleges are filled with lost students who like me, will look for fulfillment in all of the wrong places, all the while never freely performing at their best. My mission is to mentor athletes by walking with them through success, suffering, and everything in between to show them the unconditional love of God and the freedom of an identity rooted not in sport, but in the truth of Jesus Christ.

Your Impact

By walking away from sport and answering the call to FOCUS, I am metaphorically and literally ‘selling all I have’ in choosing to rely on the spiritual and financial support of mission partners to send me on mission.

I would be honored to be supported on mission by you. If you are interested in partnering with me, please let me know the best way to contact you and schedule an appointment with you to share more of my testimony and mission. I will serve my mission partners by:

1. Praying for you and for your special intentions at mass and during my daily prayer.

2. Stewarding my gifts prudently to serve and call student-athletes higher in and out of sport.

3. Update you on the friendships, growth, and glories of what God is doing at UNI!

(810) 728-8501

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Host	Retreat Type	Start Date	End Date
Tulane University	Way of the Disciple	09/05/24	09/07/24
University of Nebraska Lincoln	The Sanctifier	09/13/24	09/15/24
Parish Outreach	The Father’s House	09/16/24	09/18/24
Kansas State University	The Father’s House	09/20/24	09/22/24
University of Delaware	Rec	09/20/24	09/22/24
University of South Carolina – Columbia	Rec	09/27/24	09/29/24
St. Francis University	The Father’s House	10/04/24	10/06/24
Nicholls State University	The Father’s House	10/04/24	10/06/24
Northwestern State University	The Father’s House	10/11/24	10/13/24
University of Memphis	The Father’s House	10/11/24	10/13/24
Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville	The Father’s House	10/18/24	10/20/24
Ohio State University	The Father’s House	10/18/24	10/20/24
University of Dallas	The Sanctifier	10/24/24	10/26/24
Central Connecticut State University	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
Universidad de Monterrey	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
California State University – Fullerton	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
Sts. Anne and Joaquim, Fargo, ND	Way of the Disciple	11/01/24	11/03/24
University of Krems	Men’s	11/01/24	11/03/24
University of Mary	The Father’s House	11/08/24	11/10/24
DePauw University	Rec	11/08/24	11/10/24
Philanthropy Engagement	Way of the Disciple	11/15/24	11/17/24
University of Passau	Rec	11/21/24	11/23/24
Texas A&M University	The Sanctifier	02/07/25	02/09/25
FOCUS Greek Southeast	The Father’s House	02/14/25	02/16/25
FOCUS Greek Midwest	The Father’s House	02/14/25	02/16/25
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	The Sanctifier	02/14/25	02/16/25
FOCUS Greek Southwest	The Father’s House	02/21/25	02/23/25
Wayne State University	The Father’s House	02/21/25	02/23/25
University of Illinois-Chicago	The Sanctifier	02/21/25	02/23/25
Queens College of the City University of New York	The Father’s House	03/07/25	03/09/25
Nicholls State University	Way of the Disciple	03/07/25	03/09/25
Grand Valley State University	The Father’s House	03/28/25	03/30/25
University of Northern Iowa	Way of the Disciple	04/03/25	04/05/25
University of Nebraska Lincoln	The Father’s House	04/04/25	04/06/25
Arizona State University	Men’s	02/07/25	02/09/25
University of Nebraska at Kearney	Rec	09/27/24	09/29/24