Education
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 Company-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 Company-Most Valuable Player and Defensive Most Valuable Player by his teammates in 2004.
