New Jersey City University Athletics

Freshman forward JUAN ESPINOZA (New Brunswick, NJ/Buen Pastor (Lima, Peru)) was selected as the New Jersey Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week and the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Metro Player of the Week, and after scoring three times with an assist in a seven-point week, has been named the NJCU Men's Student-Athlete of the Week for the third time this season.

Espinoza is the third NJCU player ever to receive the ECAC award and the first this season. He is the only freshman in the NJAC this season named NJAC Player of the Week after previously being selected Rookie of the Week on two occasions.

In his seven-point week, he led NJCU to the NJAC Semifinals after the Gothic Knights defeated two nationally-ranked opponents last week and improved to 5-0 this year against ranked teams.

In NJCU’s 4-0 shutout of #8 ranked Ramapo College on October 24, Espinoza scored the opening two goals of the game against a team which had only allowed three goals the entire season entering the contest and just one goal in the conference. Espinoza surprised Ramapo College at 11:41, as he set the tone for the contest by receiving a cross at the top of the box. There, he dribbled to his right and curved a bullet inside the right corner of the net, to regain the conference lead in game-winners with five. Espinoza made it 2-0 at 33:31, when his right-wing header of a cross banked in off the right post.