Emmanuel Awotula, new head women’s soccer coach and track coach at Tennessee Temple University.Emmanuel Awotula is taking on two new responsibilities on the campus where he has been active in athletics since seventh grade.
Now 30, the former Tennessee Temple middle school , high school and university soccer player has been promoted to head coach of TTU women’s soccer and the track team the school has decided to start.
Awotula has been a soccer assistant coach the last three years, the last two for Kenrick Liburd, who also heads men’s soccer and women’s basketball.
Liburd is delighted to give up one of his teams, and Awotula has head coaching experience with the Signal Mountain Storm club organization. A native of Nigeria, he lived briefly in Germany before coming to the United States, so his background includes a variety of soccer philosophies.
“His experience and vast knowledge of the game, and of the soccer community in Tennessee and the surrounding states, is an invaluable asset to the program here at TTU,” Liburd said on the school’s website. He’s currently in his native England.