Amber Di Nucci Slone ‘11 Lifted Emmanuel Soccer to New Heights

As we approach the 2025 Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony this October, Emmanuel College is highlighting the achievements of this year’s inductees.

In the weeks ahead, we will share profiles of the student-athletes, coaches, and supporters whose dedication, leadership, and excellence have left a lasting mark on Saints athletics.

Known to teammates as “Bam Bam” for her relentless energy, Amber Di Nucci Slone '11 wasted no time rewriting the Emmanuel College women's soccer record book when she arrived to the pitch in the fall of 2007. Over her four-year career, she became the Saints’ all-time leader in games started with 87 and established herself as one of the program’s most decorated players.

She sits third in program history with 51 career goals, while holding the program’s record with 42 assists. Her 144 career points make her one of only four Saints to eclipse the 100-point mark and the only player in Emmanuel history to combine at least 30 goals with 20 assists. Fifteen of those goals were game-winners — also a program best.

Accolades followed quickly. Slone was the Great Northeast Athletic Conference’s Rookie of the Year in 2007, then Offensive Player of the Year in 2008, one of only six student-athletes in GNAC history to earn both honors in a career. She was named to the GNAC First Team all four seasons, helped lead the Saints to the 2007 GNAC Championship as a first-year, and capped her career with the Andrew Yosinoff Senior Athletic Achievement Award.

More Than Box Scores

Slone, however, insists it wasn’t the box scores that defined her time at Emmanuel. She points instead to the bonds — the music that blared before kickoff, the laughter that carried through practices, the friendships that still endure nearly two decades later. Their most beloved pre-game ritual came when “Footloose” played during warm-ups: “We always dropped everything,” she said. “No matter what we were doing, we’d gather in a circle and dance like crazy.”

The memories of winning stand out just as strongly. That freshman-year GNAC Championship remains vivid — a night game under the lights, teammates beside her, the sense of something just beginning. For four years, Emmanuel’s women’s soccer program became a crucible of joy and competition. “The friendships we built off the field were the foundation for how well we played together on it,” she said.

She credits her coaches, Wayne Currie and Keith Rogers, with teaching her what it meant to be a true teammate — lessons she carried into her career as a supply chain manager at Staples, where she thrives as much for cultivating collaboration as for delivering results.

And then there is the Emmanuel connection that became personal: her husband, Jamie Slone ‘10, whom she met as a sophomore. He was in the stands for nearly every game, often corralling roommates to cheer from the sideline. “His support meant the world then, and it still does today,” she said.

Now she finds herself on the sidelines again, this time coaching her daughter’s soccer team. The joy remains the same.

When she returns to Emmanuel this fall to be enshrined in the Athletics Hall of Fame, Slone said she will do so with gratitude as much as pride. “The friendships I formed during freshman year preseason have remained some of the closest and most meaningful in my life to this day,” she said.

Her numbers may be etched in the record book, but the legacy she cherishes most was built in laughter, music, and lasting bonds.