Player Bio: Amanda Janney

Amanda Janney

Position:
Head Coach

Experience:
3rd Season

Alma Mater:
Wake Forest '99

Amanda Janney

Head coach Amanda Janney will begin her third season on North Broad Street in 2007.

In two seasons in Owl Country, Janney has compiled a 24-13 overall mark while leading the Owls to two consecutive Atlantic 10 tournaments. Under her tutelage, 13 members of the Cherry and White have celebrated all-conference accolades.

Her most impressive coaching performance comes following a 13-7 finish in 2006. After losing seven contributing seniors in 2005 to exhausted eligibilities, the Owls, featuring 11 freshman and one senior, collected the most wins in program history since the 1991 season.

The Cherry and White took flight in 2006 with a seven game winning streak, the longest since the same '91 campaign. Overtime wins over Lafayette and Massachusetts, as well as three shutouts from sophomore goalkeeper Erin Hanshue against Fairfield, Drexel and Longwood kept the run in tact. Temple finished the Atlantic 10 slate with a 4-3 record and the conference's four-seed.

In 2005, her first season on North Broad Street, the Owls posted their first winning season (11-10) since 1992 and their best Atlantic 10 Conference mark (6-1) since becoming an affiliate in 1988.

Despite Temple's disappointing loss in the 2005 conference tournament's semifinal round, Janney was named Atlantic 10 Co-Coach of the Year in conjunction with Saint Louis head coach Maria Whitehead.

With a veteran-laden squad in 2005, Janney coached the Owls to 10 victories in their final 13 games of the regular season. Despite dropping six of their first seven games, Janney's troops rebounded to finish as the second seed in the conference tournament. A credit to her support, motivation, and teaching, six Temple players received all-conference honors en route to the program's third consecutive appearance in the conference tournament.

Prior to accepting the position at Temple, Janney, a '99 graduate of Wake Forest, spent two seasons as an assistant at Penn (2003, 2004) and one season at James Madison (2002).

Under Janney's tutelage, Penn finished the 2003 season with a 10-8 record while capturing the Philadelphia City 6 title and garnering a #30 national ranking according to BRP's ratings.com. The 2004 season saw the Quakers win a share of the Ivy League title while boasting a #5 national ranking in scoring defense (.860).

The 13-4 Penn squad ranked #20 nationally, according to womensfieldhockey.com. While at JMU, Janney assisted the Dukes to a 13-9 overall mark and their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1999.

Following an illustrious playing career as a Demon Deacon, where Janney started 55 games and finished in the school's top 10 in goals (21) and assists (17), she assumed the position of head field hockey coach at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas.

While at TVS for three seasons, she led the school to its first-ever undefeated season, posted an overall 53-3-1 record and was twice crowned Southwest Preparatory Champion.

While remaining active on the United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA) circuit as a player, Janney participated in the 2002, 2003 and 2004 National Indoor Tournament with Team Dita and Head to Toe. In 2004, she was named team captain and a North American Premier League all-star as a member of Team Dita.

Janney played as a member of the USFHA's Metro Rush in 2004 and 2005. In addition to coaching and coordinating several national youth teams and camps, Janney has worked with the AAU Junior Olympics team, the USFHA Field Hockey Festival and Futures Program, and the USA/Canada Field Hockey Challenge.

She has received coaching certificates from the NCAA, USFHA Level One Coaching, the USFHA Futures Program, and the Greg Gephart Fund Coaching Clinic.

Amanda Janney's Contact Information

Office: (215) 204-6288

Fax: (215) 204-5254

E-mail: ajanney@temple.edu