Bobby McAuley

Position:
Midfielder
Height:
6-0
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Hicksville, N.Y.
High School:
Hicksville

Coach Joe Breschi on Bobby McAuley
•Very good on-field general
•Quarterbacks the offensive midfield
•Has the ability to break down a defense with a great split dodge

General: One of the Tar Heels' four captains this year...three-year returning letter winner who has had an outstanding career at Carolina...will likely run on the first midfield unit this year with Ben Hunt and Sean Delaney..a hard worker...has great dodging ability from the midfield...great on-field leader.

2008 Season (Junior): Played in 12 games as a junior, missing two games after being injured in the Notre Dame match...had four goals and four assists for eight points...had seven ground balls and two caused turnovers...had a goal and an assist in the Maryland and Johns Hopkins matches...had two ground balls in each of the last two games of the season against Duke and Navy.

2007 Season (Sophomore): Played in 15 games as a sophomore, missing only the season opener against Ohio State 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...scored goals against Bellarmine and Notre Dame.

2006 Season (Freshman): 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 ACC Men's Lacrosse All-Academic Team...a 2005-06 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.

Personal: Robert Alexander McAuley is the son of Robert and Linda McAuley...was born March 13, 1987 in Plainview, N.Y. ...has two brothers, Brendan, 23, and Conor, 14.

The Making Of McAuley
Academic Major at Carolina: Advertising Sequence in the School of Journalism
Career Plans: To work in New York City
Hobbies: Wrestling (WWF style), Snowboarding, Beaching It, Riding my Go-Ped
Athletes I Most Admire: Shane Walterhoefer, Derek Jeter
Biggest Sports Thrill: Every game I play at THE Historic Fetzer Field
People Who Have Had The Greatest Influence On My Athletic Career: My parents, my Uncle Brian and my brother Brendan
Favorite Book: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Favorite Magazines: Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Inside Lacrosse
Favorite Food: Two eggs scrambled with bacon and cheese on a roll at the OCR Deli
Favorite Movies: Beautiful Girls, Dazed and Confused
Favorite TV Shows: The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Entourage, Cash Cab, The Flight of the Conchords
Favorite Website To Visit: You Can Find Everything Here