Tim Velten
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Timothy Velten | ||
Date of birth | (1983-09-01) September 1, 1983 (age 41) | ||
Place of birth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2003 | SIU Edwardsville Cougars | ||
2004–2005 | Louisville Cardinals | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007 | Harrisburg City Islanders | 23 | (1) |
2008 | Charleston Battery | 26 | (0) |
2009 | Harrisburg City Islanders | 20 | (0) |
2009 | → Rochester Rhinos (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2010 | AC St. Louis | 24 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 2, 2010 |
Tim Velten (born September 1, 1983, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American soccer player, last playing for AC St. Louis in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.
Career
College
Velten attended Webster Groves High School where he was a second team All State soccer player as a senior. He played two years of college soccer at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he started all 39 games of his freshman and sophomore seasons and was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Co-Freshman of the Year in 2001, and a First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region, and Third Team All-American his sophomore year before transferring to the University of Louisville as a junior. At Louisville he started 34 games over the course of 2004 and 2005, and was named Co-Most Valuable Player and Defensive Most Valuable Player by his teammates in 2004.
Professional
Velten turned professional in 2007 when he joined the Harrisburg City Islanders in the USL Second Division, and was part of the USL-2 championship-winning team in his debut season. On July 16, 2007, the Baltimore Blast of Major Indoor Soccer League selected Velten in the 8th round of the MISL Supplemental Draft, but he did not sign with the team.
On April 8, 2008, Velten signed with the Charleston Battery in the USL First Division.,[1] and played 26 games for the Battery before returning to Harrisburg in 2009. On February 9, 2010, he signed with the new founded club AC St. Louis.[2]
References
- ^ Battery Bring On Two Islanders Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ AC St Louis signs local native, Tim Velten: Velten Becomes Second Official Signing by the Club
External links
- AC St. Louis bio
- Harrisburg City Islanders bio
- Charleston Battery bio
- SIU Edwardsville bio
- University of Louisville bio