Joe Auleta keeps raising his game, and the talented senior continues lifting the Rutgers-Camden men’s soccer program in the process. Auleta played both in the midfield and the back during the 2013 season as the Scarlet Raptors posted the finest campaign in program history, went 23-1-2 and reached the NCAA Division III championship game. He started all 26 games to set a program single-season record (shared by four other teammates last season) and earned numerous athletic and academic honors.
Entering his senior season, Auleta has played in all 72 games during his Rutgers-Camden career, starting all but his very first collegiate contest. He is within 21 games played of tying the program’s career record, set last season by Mitch Grotti, and ranks ninth on the all-time Rutgers-Camden list for assists (17), 11 shy of the record. Auleta has collected nine goals (four game winners) and 35 points in his career, while leading Rutgers-Camden to a remarkable three-year record of 59-6-7 and three straight New Jersey Athletic Conference championships.
Soccer 2013: Started all 26 games, collecting two goals, six assists and 10 points, for the 23-1-2 Scarlet Raptors, who finished as the NCAA Division III runner-up…Served as one of the Raptors’ co-captains…Captured the NJAC’s prestigious David Logar Leadership Award…First Team All-NJAC…Named to the NCAA Div. III Final Four All-Tournament Team…NSCAA Division III All-South Atlantic Region First Team…ECAC Division III Metro First Team…Earned CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team and Academic All-America Third Team honors…Added
Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men’s Soccer Team, NSCAA Men’s College Division Scholar All-America Third Team and NJAC Academic First Team recognition…Named the NJAC Defensive Player of the Week and Rutgers-Camden’s Raptor of the Week on Sept. 16…Added ECAC Metro Defensive Player of the Week honors the next day…Collected the game-winning goal in a 3-1 victory over York College (Nov. 23) as the Raptors advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight…Collected two assists in a 5-0 win over New Jersey City University (Oct. 30)…Assisted on Keegan Balle’s insurance goal in a 2-0 win over Rutgers-Newark in the NJAC championship game (Oct. 9)…His first goal of the season came against Rutgers-Newark on Sept. 21 as the Raptors rallied from a 3-0 deficit to a 4-3 win…Also had single assists in a 4-3 win over DeSales (Aug. 31) and 1-0 victories over Rowan (Sept. 25) and Haverford (Oct. 16).
Soccer 2012: Started all 22 games while leading Scarlet Raptors to a 17-2-3 record and a second-round berth in the NCAA tournament…Notched one goal and finished tied for second on the team with five assists to produce seven points…Named to the All-NJAC Second Team and added NJAC Academic Honorable Mention…Captured a berth on the
Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men’s Soccer Team…Winner of the annual Borda-Sheehan Memorial Award as Rutgers-Camden’s Most Dedicated Player…Tied for 13th in the NJAC in assists (5) and finished 20th in assists per game (0.23)…Played almost entirely in the midfield, but started in the back during one stretch due to team injuries and ended up as the NJAC Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 24…Added honors on Sept. 25 as the ECAC Division III Metro Player of the Week…Helped team post 11 shutouts and a 0.74 goals-against average…Notched his lone goal of the season in a 2-1 win at Rowan University (Sept. 19), scoring the tying goal on a penalty kick…Had his first assist of the season in a 5-0 win over St. Joseph’s College-Long Island (Sept. 8) in the Raptors’ opener of their own Cialella Soccer Classic…Assisted on the first two goals of a 4-1 win over Kean University (Sept. 22)…Assisted Mike Ryan’s game-tying goal in a 2-2 deadlock at Richard Stockton College (Oct. 10)…Played a role in a record-setting 5-0 win at New Jersey City University (Oct. 24) in which the Scarlet Raptors scored four goals in a 2:46 span: he assisted Bobby Foster’s goal at 52:58, the second goal in that run, which sparked a three-goal explosion in a program-record 2:09.
Soccer 2011: Played in all 24 Rutgers-Camden games, starting 23…Only game he didn’t start came in a 1-0 win over Widener University in the season opener (Sept. 3)…Finished second on the team in scoring (18 points), goals (six), assists (six) and game-winning goals (three)…Took 54 shots, also second on the team…Named the NJAC Rookie of the Year and the ECAC Division III Metro Co-Rookie of the Year…Earned a berth on the All-NJAC Second Team…Named the NJAC Rookie of the Week on Sept. 19, Oct. 10 and Nov. 7…Named the Rutgers-Camden Raptor of the Week Oct. 10 and shared the honor with his teammates when the men’s soccer team was recognized on Nov. 21…Made first career start in a 2-1 loss at Swarthmore College in the title game of the Garnet Alumni Classic (Sept. 4)…Collected first career points with a goal in a 4-1 victory over Hunter College (Sept. 10), scoring the game’s first goal at 6:52 on a volley into the left side of the net…Notched a goal and an assist – including his first career game-winning goal – in a 3-1 victory at Rutgers-Newark (Sept. 17)…During a four-game span, Scored goals in a 4-1 win at Stevenson University (Oct. 5), a 3-1 victory over Montclair State University (Oct. 8) and a 2-1 win at William Paterson University (Oct. 15)…Also had assists against Stevenson and Montclair State, while the goals against the Red Hawks and the Pioneers were the game winners…The winner against Paterson came on a penalty kick with 5:55 remaining in regulation…Scored his final goal of the season in a 4-2 win over the United States Merchant Marine (Nov. 12), helping the Raptors earn their first NCAA tourney win in program history…Assisted on the game-winning goals by Mitch Grotti against Catholic University (3-2 in overtime, Sept. 19) and against Ramapo College (1-0, Oct. 22)…Also assisted on Bobby Foster’s game-winning goal against Stevenson (4-1, Oct. 5)…Added an assist against Rowan University (Sept. 21) and Montclair State University (Oct. 8), in addition to his first career assist against Rutgers-Newark (Sept. 17)…Honors College Award.
High School: Earned four varsity soccer letters at Hammonton High School for Coach Dave Thompson…Cape-Atlantic League First Team All-Star as a senior…Two-time all-conference Honorable Mention player…Two-time team captain…All-Area First Team from the
Atlantic City Press during senior season…Led team to first Group 3 South Jersey title in school history…Ranked 16th in class…National Honor Society treasurer.
Personal: Born May 8, 1993…Played club soccer for the South Jersey Barons…Enjoys fishing, tennis and wakeboarding…Nicknamed “Golden Leg”…Biology major at Rutgers-Camden with a Psychology minor…Dean’s List student every semester…Honors College…Tomasso A. Borda Memorial Award…Plans to attend medical school and pursue a career in medicine…Joe is the son of John and Paulette Auleta of Hammonton.
