The Aurora University men's soccer team took part in two community service in the first month of school within the local community. As has become the norm for the men's program, the Spartans took time out of their busy class and soccer schedules to find time for others.

On Sunday, September 22, the Spartans volunteered at Mutual Ground Shelter in Aurora.  As a domestic violence shelter, Mutual Ground serves women and children affected by domestic violence and abuse.  The men's soccer program volunteered by doing several landscaping, cleaning, and moving tasks. The Spartans moved beds within the shelter, helped prepare painting supplies, washed exterior windows, picked weeds in the playground, and cleaned up trash on the property.  This is the third year that the men's soccer
The Spartans then followed up by hosting three grades from Lowrie Elementary School from Elgin, Ill. on Wednesday, September 25 as part of a College Preview Day. Lowrie and the AU men's soccer program have had a pen-pal relationship for the past three years where elementary school children and AU players writing letters to each other talking about school, sports, and reaching for your goals.  Lowrie Elementary School is a "No Excuses" school that emphasizes the need and desire of each child to attend college one day.  Lowrie selected Aurora University and the men's soccer program to be their university partner. 

Each of the last two years, the AU men's soccer program has traveled up to Lowrie and put on a question and answer session as well as hosted a soccer clinic. This year, children from three grades at Lowrie accompanied their teachers to the campus of Aurora University for a college preview day, where they took a campus tour led by AU soccer players, shadowed a class, visited Phillips Library, played on Vago Field with AU players, and had the opportunity to watch their AU soccer pen-pals play in a real college soccer game.  Around 53 children and six teachers took part in the college preview day from Lowrie.