Esmeralda Negron

Esmeralda Negron is an American soccer player and coach. She was voted the second greatest Princeton University female athlete of the decade (2000–2010) for her time leading Princeton University women's soccer team.
A native of Harrington Park, New Jersey, Negron attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.

Princeton made the NCAA tournament in all four seasons Negron was on the team, advancing to the second round in her freshman season of 2001. During her days at Princeton, Negron scored 47 goals as part of her 112 career points, both Princeton records for both the men's and women's programs. The unforgettable season of 2004 saw Negron score 20 goals with 12 assists for a total of 52 points, all Princeton single-season records, leading the Tigers to the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship semifinals. She was a 2004 first-team All-America, a 2003 third-team All-America, a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year and a three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection. She won the von Kiensbusch Award her senior year as Princeton's top senior sportswoman. During the summer of 2004, Negron played internationally with the United States U-21 team in Iceland and was a member of the pool for the full U.S. National Soccer Team.

Her Princeton career concluded with a record-breaking run to the NCAA Final Four in 2004 with then freshman teammate Diana Matheson, a member of the Canadian National Team. No other any Ivy League team has ever reached the NCAA Final Four of a 64-team tournament. She has also played professionally for the New Jersey Stallions and New Jersey Wildcats of the USL W-League.

Negron served as Assistant Coach for Seton Hall University and Princeton University women's soccer programs. After serving as Assistant Coach during Princeton's second Ivy League perfect season and second-best NCAA appearance of reaching the Round of 32, Negron founded her own soccer training academy, Champions League Soccer Academy.