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Greg Temple

  • Title
    Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach
  • Email
    templeg@william.jewell.edu
  • Phone
    816-415-5007
  • Hometown
    Urbandale, IA
  • Alma Mater
    Missouri State '08
  • Year Started
    2019
Greg Temple enters his seventh year as the head men's and women's swimming coach in 2025-2026. 
 

Key Dates
• July 1, 2019 | Named Head Men's & Women's Swimming Coach


Jewell Highlights
• Mentored Martina Torrent who made three-straight NCAA-II National Championship apperances, accumulating three All-America honors and setting several school records
• Took two women to the 2023 NCAA-II National Championships to compete in four events, the first qualifiers since 2017• Teams combined to go 9-2 in dual meets in 2020-21
• Athletes have broken numerous school records and made more than 50 additions to the all-time top-10 charts 
• Mentored Cecil Martin Award (Men's Athlete of the Year) winner Noah Witzki in 2020-21 who broke three individual and three relay records
• 82 Academic All-GLVC honors have been awarded under his leadership


Prior to Jewell
• Served as the program director for the Des Moines Swimming Federation for nine years and previously served as a head age group coach since 2008
• Helped develop multiple junior and senior national qualifiers and sent more than 40 athletes to the college level
• Mentored athletes to multiple championships on the state and national level, earn All-America status in the NISCA and NCAA Division II and Division III, as well as qualifying for the junior and senior national teams and Olympic trials
• Served on the ISI Board of Directors in 2016 and was named the ISI Senior Coach of the Year twice 
 

Playing Career2
• Competed collegiately at Missouri State University
• Was a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference, winning championships in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, and posting four other top-10 finishes during his career
• Broke the school record in the 100 breast and is second all-time in the 200
• Named a co-captain as a senior
• 2004 Missouri State swimming Freshman of the Year


Personal
• An Urbandale, Iowa native
• Earned his undergraduate degree from Missouri State in 2008
• Has two sons 
 
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