CONTENTS A letter from the Director . .1 The Campus . .2 Philadelphia . .3 Individual Sport Highlights . .4-23 Men’s Basketball . .4 TEMPLE AT A GLANCE... Women’s Basketball . .5 • Temple is the 4th largest media market in the country, with over 2.9 million TV homes according to Nielsen. The designated market area (DMA) is 7.6 million. Men’s Crew . .6 • Temple is located in a region of 6.53 million people, and is only 95 miles from NYC and 120 miles from Washington DC. In fact, more than 40% of the US population is Men’s Cross Country . .7 within a days drive from Philadelphia. Women’s Cross Country . .8 • Temple is the 26th largest public University in the country with over 38,000 students founded in 1884 and has 404 academic programs including 5 professional schools of Fencing . .9 law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and podiatry. Field Hockey . .10 • Temple is Research I institution, a Carnegie Classification in 2015 as the highest level and ranked by US News and World Report at 115 (6th) with an overall graduation rate Football . .11 of 70%, and has a full time retention rate for undergraduate students at 89%. Men’s Golf . .12 • Temple is one of 11 institutions in the country with multi-year APR scores of 970 or greater for all teams including a 2015 multi-years APR score of 971, as well as 979 for Women’s Gymnastics . .13 men’s basketball. Women’s Lacrosse . .14 • Temple has over 300,000 alumni around the world including over 170,000 alumni that live in the Philadelphia DMA. Women’s Rowing . .15 • Temple’s athletic department has 19 sports and 500+ student athletes. Men’s Soccer . .16 • Temple has one of the best football coaches in Matt Rhule. The football team has been bowl eligible 5 out of the last 7 years and finished 10-4 last year, winning the Women’s Soccer . .17 AAC Eastern Division and being ranked in the Top 25 for several weeks. Men’s Tennis . .18 • Temple posted the largest attendance gain during the 2015 season, playing in front of an average home crowd of 44,159, an increase of 20,789 per game. This excitement Women’s Tennis . .19 led ESPN to bring its popular pregame show, College GameDay, to Philadelphia. • The Temple game played against Notre Dame had a 3.9 national rating and an 18.1 Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field . .20 local rating. It was ABC’s highest ranking game ever in the Philadelphia area which is Volleyball . .21 impactful given we are in the 4th largest media market in the country. • Out of the 10 football games televised on ABC/ESPN locally, Temple had over 14.8 Individual Honors . .22 million viewers in the Philadelphia market. (There is not data available for the re - Resnick Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes . .27 maining two games televised on CBSSN). • Led by the AAC Coach of the Year Fran Dunphy, the men’s basketball team won the Academic Honors . .28 regular season conference title and is the 5th winningest program in the history of Student-Athlete Development . .33 college basketball. • Temple’s athletic facilities are among the finest in the country. The football team Community Service & Outreach . .35 plays its games in the NFL stadium operated by the Philadelphia Eagles and there are Facilities . .37 ongoing discussions to build an on campus football stadium as well. The basketball arena is a state of the art facility with a capacity crowd of 10,000. Over the last four Marketing & Promotions . .39 years Temple has spent over $50 million for athletics multipurpose facilities with all OwlSports.com . .41 the athletic facilities being state of the art. • The University itself has over $400 million planned for capital projects over the next The Owl Club . .42 five years including a $170 million state of the art library. T-Club . .44 TeMPLe FAnS, What a year it was to be a Temple Owl! From the start of the 2015 fall season where Football posted its first win over Penn State in 74 years to the 2016 spring season highlighted by academic records set by our student-athletes in the classroom, it has been quite a ride for our Cherry and White. Here are some of the many memories I will take from this amazing year! • Record-setting grade point averages and APR numbers by our student-athletes, including a new semester record 3.22 GPA for Spring 2016 • All-time high of 4,876 community service hours performed by our student-athletes over a record 50 projects • Football garnering its first national ranking since 1979, winning the AAC East Division, tying a record for wins in a season and earning a trip to the Marmot Boca Raton Bowl • ESPN’s College GameDay coming to Philadelphia for our Notre Dame game and the ABC national telecast setting a record with an 18.1 share in the Philadelphia market • Tyler Matakevich earning National Defensive Player of the Year (Bednarik and Nagurski Awards) and Consensus All-American honors • Men’s Basketball winning the conference regular season title and earning its seventh trip in nine years to the NCAAs • Senior Alyssa Delp earned All-America honors in leading Field Hockey to a second straight berth in the BIG EAST Championship game • Blanca Fernandez won her first six races, including the AAC Championship and NCAA Regional title, and became women’s cross country’s first All-American. She also set a school record in the 5000 meters and earned All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championship • Freshman Sylvia Wilson won the 60m hurdles at the American Athletic Conference Indoor Championship • Men’s Soccer earned its first national ranking since 1997 while Women’s Soccer posted a season-record 12 wins • Women’s Basketball posted its first upset of a nationally-ranked team in seven years with a thrilling 68-66 win over #19/17 USF • Fencing won its 20th straight NIWFA Championships and four Owls competed at the NCAAs. • Junior gymnast Briana Odom was co-champion at the ECAC Championships in the floor exercise. • Women’s Lacrosse advanced to the BIG EAST Championship game on the strength of a 13-win season. • On the river Men’s Crew won its first medal at the Dad Vail Regatta since 2008 while Women’s Rowing had its best-ever finish at the American Athletic Conference Championships • Last, but certainly not least, due to the impressive performance by our student-athletes, our overall fundraising increased by 134 percent. This is just a sampling of the many accolades and highlights our student-athletes, coaches and teams earned during this amazing year. Now, we look forward to even greater success for Temple Athletics during the 2016-17 academic year. We eagerly anticipate the opening of the Temple Sports Complex, the new home of men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, lacrosse and women’s track. Enjoy the rest of your summer Temple fans, and I look forward to seeing everyone at a game this fall cheering on your Owls!! GReATneSS DOeSn’T QUIT. Dr. Patrick Kraft Director of Athletics Temple University ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 1 THE CAMPUS Founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is a public university that enrolls nearly 39,000 students. Temple offers disciplines in 17 schools and colleges, including professional schools such as med - ical, dental and law. Sitting just 1.5 miles north of Cen - ter City Philadelphia, our Main Campus is close to the arts, music, intellectual and cultural scene of the country’s sixth Each of our 18 schools and largest city. colleges offers an abundance of courses and majors There are over 170,000 living Temple boasts more than 100 undergraduate programs on nine campuses, alumni in the tri-state area. including locations in Rome and Japan. 2 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS MEN’S BASKETBALL Tournament games, was named to the American Athletic 21-12 Overall; 14-4 The American 2015-16 HIGHLIGHTS Conference All-Tournament Team and to the Philadelphia Big 5 Second Team. He recorded 10 double-doubles, and his 1st in The American • Temple made its 32nd appearance all-time in the NCAA 8.5 rebounds per game ranked fifth in the conference. Tournament and seventh in head coach Fran Dunphy’s 10 • Sophomore Obi Enechionyia was Temple's second-leading years with the program. scorer with 11.0 points per game, and reached double fig - • The 10th-seeded Owls fell narrowly in overtime to seventh- HeAD COACH ures in scoring in 12 of the last 15 games of the season. seeded Iowa, 72-70, in the NCAA First Round. • Junior point guard Josh Brown led all players in the confer - Fran Dunphy • The Owls finished the season with an overall record of 21- ence with an assist/turnover ratio of 3.5 (eighth in the na - 12, marking their 36th 20-win season all time and eighth in tion), and ranked second in the league with 4.9 assists per Dunphy's 10 seasons. game. He twice dished nine assists in a game this season. • Temple won the American Athletic Conference regular sea - ASSISTAnT COACHeS • The Owls finished the regular season with 11 home wins, son title with a record of 14-4 and claimed the top seed in and have now won 10 or more games at home in eight of Dwayne Killings the American Athletic Conference Tournament. the last nine seasons. • Temple’s regular season conference title was its first since Aaron McKie • Overall, the Owls won 13 of their last 18 games including a 2012 in the Atlantic 10, and its 14th all-time shared or out - streak of five straight.