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Men’s soccer hires assistant coach

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Brian Clarhaut of the University of Connecticut has been hired as the new assistant coach for the men’s soccer team, a press release indicated Monday.
Clarhaut will assist coach David MacWilliams’ with all aspects of the program after spending last season as the Director of Soccer Quality Control at UConn. Temple has been in search of a new assistant coach since Trevor Singer left for George Mason.
Clarhaut helped lead UConn to the Big East Championship game and the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament in 2011.
Prior to spending last season at UConn, Clarhaut spent 2009 and 2010 alongside associate head coach Tim O’Donohue at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Clarhaut, a Medford, N.J. native, played Division-I soccer at St. Peter’s College from 2004-06.
-Tyler Sablich

Cross country coach resigns

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Matt Jelley, who served as head coach of the cross country team and distance coach of the track & field team, has resigned from Temple, athletic communications confirmed Wednesday morning.

Though communications couldn’t give a reason for his resignation, last night, Jelley posted a message on Twitter to his athletes: “Thank you for always working hard. Keep it up and you will kick butt. You made me look good. Love my owl family always.”

Jelley has been with the program since 2007, when he was hired as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country teams and distance coach for the men’s and women’s track and field teams.

His arrival came just two years after the lifting of a 20-year hiatus of Temple’s cross country program, and his presence during the past few seasons has been largely influential in reviving it.

-Avery Maehrer

Training Camp Day 4: Rebuilding the offensive line

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As offensive line coach Justin Frye looked at his group during football training camp day four, he noticed a stark contrast between this year’s line and last year’s, after losing four out of five starters.

With fifth-year senior right tackle Martin Wallace being the only holdover from last year’s starting line, the Owls will depend on a younger core up front come September. Despite the youth, Frye sees an ambitious group when looking at this year’s offensive line.

“I look at these young guys and they just seem to always want more,” Frye said. “They’ll do a drill and keep going at it over and over again, until finally their eyes light up and you can tell when it works.”

Helping Wallace lead this year’s young line will be redshirt-junior center Sean Boyle, who watched the previous two seasons unfold from the sidelines while his brother Pat flourished at left tackle.

Hampered by shoulder surgeries in each of the last two summers, Boyle has not played in a collegiate game since the fall of 2009.

“I’m excited to be out on the field and play with the guys again,” Boyle said. “Being out of the game for two years, I always had to sit and watch. Now, just being on the field with these guys again is great.”

“I’m playing the best football I’ve played in a while,” Boyle added. “I’m healthy and I feel strong again. There’s nowhere to go but up for me at this point.”

While Boyle continues to settle into his new role as the starting center, Wallace is beginning to embrace his role as a leader of the Temple offense.

A former transfer from the now-defunct Northeastern football program, Wallace has solidified his role as a consistent force over at right tackle.

“I want to have one of the best seasons I’ve ever had both individually and as a team,” Wallace said. “It goes hand in hand. I have to keep the same tough mentality throughout and I have to help lead these guys to that goal.”

In the long grind that is a collegiate football season, according to Wallace, toughness will be the key to success on a team that will have to rebuild its offensive line after last year.

“We have to be Temple tough,” Wallace said. “We have to keep grinding and working hard all year long. We do that, and we’ll be successful as a group.”

-Drew Parent