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JENNIFER ALBUJA NAMED NEW JERSEY ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

JENNIFER ALBUJA NAMED NEW JERSEY ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

PITMAN, NJ�For the first time in her career New Jersey City University sophomore striker JENNIFER ALBUJA (Union City, NJ/Hoboken) has been named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week after the sensational forward accumulated a season�s worth of offensive production in only three games, setting records along the way. Albuja scored nine goals with three assists for 21 points as NJCU opened a women�s soccer season with a 3-0 record for the first time in its history. She has 33 goals in only 21 games in her brief career.

Albuja, the 2007 NJAC Rookie of the Year and First-Team All-NJAC selection, is the first NJCU player to receive the honor since current assistant coach KATIE FEEHAN on October 24, 2005.

In 270 minutes, Albuja uncorked 33 shots�including 17 on goal�and chalked up two game-winning goals. She also assisted on the game-winner in a third game. Albuja was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Scarlet Raider�s Women�s Soccer Classic with six goals and three assists in a pair of contests.

With 33 career goals, she equaled Feehan�s career program goal record, and tied her record of six game-winners. She registered her fourth and fifth career hat tricks and ninth and 10th multiple-goal games. She also moved into second place in school history with 72 career points.

In NJCU�s 4-3 season-opening road win at Lancaster Bible on September 2, Albuja opened the 2008 season the way she performed as a freshman�as an unstoppable goal scorer. Albuja notched her fifth career game-winner, scoring the first, third, and fourth goals.

Trailing 1-0, that deficit stood for just over 11 minutes before NJCU uncorked the first of three consecutive goals at 20:14. Albuja outleaped the LBC keeper on a cross, heading in her first goal of the year for a 1-1 tie. The clubs were knotted at 1-1 at halftime. At 63:40, Albuja delivered again, firing a shot into the upper right corner, over the leaping keeper, for a 3-1 margin. After LBC cut the lead to 3-2, Albuja answered just 48 seconds later with her third goal of the game, and what proved to be the eventual game-winner, scoring off a thru ball that led to a breakaway goal. Albuja slipped a shot on the ground for the winner at 84:02.

In a 1-0 win over College of Staten Island on September 5 in the Scarlet Raider�s Women�s Soccer Classic, NJCU scored the only goal of the game at 87:12. Albuja lofted a perfectly-placed corner kick from the left endline, over both the opposing keeper and defenders, onto the right side of the box where it was banged home.

In NJCU�s 10-1 win over Medgar Evers College on day two of the tournament on September 6, Albuja tied the single-game school record with six goals, collected 14 points�one shy of the single-game mark of 15�and in the process equaled the program�s career mark of 33 goals.

The six goals in one game ties for sixth most in a game in NCAA Division III history while the 14 points ties for eighth on the NCAA single-game charts. Her six goals were also a Raiders� Classic record. She uncorked 15 of NJCU�s 39 shots and was one shy of her own single-game record of 16 shots set last year.

Albuja scored the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and 10th goals for NJCU. She scored the eventual game-winner in the 6th minute, for a 2-0 lead. She also provided two assists on corner kicks in the second half. All three of her assists this year have come off her corner kicks.
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Submitted 2008-09-08 18:21:49 by New Jersey City University Sports Information Department

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