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General: Two-year returning letter winner who has had a pair of outstanding years for Carolina...will again run in one of Carolina's top three midfield units this coming season..a hard worker...has great dodging ability from the midfield...has a tremendous ability to get close to the goal...has a lot of experience in the midfield.
2007 Season: Played in 15 games as a sophomore, missing only the season opener with an injury...had two goals and four assists on the season...had a career-high two assists at Virginia...matched his career high for ground balls in a game with three against Vermont...had goals against Bellarmine and Notre Dame.
2006 Season: Played in 14 games as a freshman and was the team's sixth-leading scorer with 12 points on five goals and seven assists...his assist total tied him for third on the team...opened the season with a three-point effort against Ohio State by scoring a season-high two goals to go along with one assist...had a goal and an assist against both Navy and Fairfield...also scored against Pennsylvania ...had assists against Air Force, Hofstra, Duke and Johns Hopkins...had 13 ground balls including a season high three against Penn....named to the 2006 All-ACC Academic Team...a 2006 ACC Academic Honor Roll choice...named to the 2006 spring semester Dean's List.
Prep: Graduated in June 2005 from Hicksville High School...a four-year letterman in both lacrosse and football...was a midfielder on the lacrosse team and played wide receiver, cornerback and outside linebacker during his high school football career...was the captain of the lacrosse team his final two seasons...played on Long Island Empire State Games teams which won silver medals his junior and senior years...named a high school All-America as a senior and honorable mention All-America as a junior...2004 Newsday All-Long Island selection in lacrosse...also earned All-Conference and All-County awards during his career...named to the Academic All-County Team for Nassau County as a junior and senior...won the Nassau County John Driscoll Midfielder-of-the-Year award his senior year...member of academic honor society.
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Given Name...Robert Alexander McAuley
Preferred First Name... Bobby
Parents...Robert and Linda McAuley
Birthdate and Birthplace... March 13, 1987 in Plainview, N.Y.
Siblings...Two brothers (Brendan, 22, Conor, 13)
College Major... Advertising
Post-School Ambition... To work in New York City
Hobbies... Surfing, snowboarding, fishing, watching Bart and Gavin play Halo
Athlete I Most Admire... Derek Jeter
My Biggest Sports Thrill...Playing in the NCAA quarterfinals last year
People Who Have Had the Greatest Influence on My Athletic Career... My father, my brother Brendan, my uncle Brian
Favorite Book... The Book of Face
Favorite Foods... bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches
Favorite Movies... Beautiful Girls, Dazed and Confused
Favorite TV Shows... Rescue Me, Entourage, Ghost Hunters, Flight of the Concords
Favorite Website... Digg.com
