Our Team
AJ Auld, Founder & CEO
Founder and CEO of Titanium Lacrosse AJ Auld has a proven track record of developing exceptional lacrosse players, coaching championship caliber teams and assisting with the recruiting process for lacrosse players across the United States.
Auld is entering his seventh season as the head boys’ lacrosse coach at Dublin Jerome High School in Dublin, Ohio. He has won two Ohio state championships and been runner-up one time over the past six years. Auld was the recipient of the 2011 Ohio Capital Conference (OCC) Men's Lacrosse Coach of the Year and the 2006 Ohio High School Lacrosse Coach of the Year awards. He has coached multiple academic and scholastic All-Americans, 1st team all-state recipients, and many student-athletes who have received scholarships to play Division 1 college lacrosse. Auld has a 100–22 record as a head coach.
Prior to taking the reins at Dublin Jerome, Auld was a varsity assistant coach at Dublin Scioto from 2003 to 2005. Dublin Scioto's lacrosse team won the 2003 Division 1 state championship and was the Division 1 runner-up in 2004.
Auld has been the head coach of the Under Armour Underclassmen Midwest team since its inception (2009 through 2012). He was selected as one of twenty coaches in the United States to serve as an evaluator for the U19 National Team.
A strong believer in volunteering to help grow the game, Auld currently serves as a board member of the safety subcommittee for US Lacrosse. He served as the US Lacrosse central Ohio area rep from 2007 to 2011, Ohio High School Lacrosse Association (OHSLA) president from 2010 to 2011, OHSLA vice president from 2008 to 2009 and OHSLA central Ohio rep from 2006 to 2008.Joe Horine, VP of Marketing & Communications
Joe Horine is a seasoned marketing and communications specialist who has served in vice president and director-level positions at various companies, including AT&T, IBM, NCR and Citrix, over the past twenty years. Joe also has an extensive background in education, having taught at the university and high-school level, coached high school and middle school sports, and served as the Director of Football Operations, Director of Marketing and the English Department Chair for North Broward Prep in Florida and the Meritas International Family of College Preparatory schools. Currently Director of Communications for a division of IBM, Joe also teaches Organizational Communications, Public Relations, and Film Studies for Franklin University. He holds a bachelor's degree from DePauw University, earned a master's from Miami University and did his doctoral work at the University of Cincinnati while receiving an MBA Certificate in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. A widely published academic as well as sports and entertainment journalist specializing in film and theater reviews, Joe is married and has two sons currently playing college lacrosse.
