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Malachi Timberlake
Malachi Timberlake
Malachi Timberlake joined the Temple Football staff in July 2025 as the assistant director of recruiting.
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Timberlake spent the past three seasons as head football coach at Pleasantville (N.J.) High where he inherited an 0-10 team and turned it around, posting a 15-5 record in his first two seasons at the helm. Over that time, he developed two dozen all-conference players. He began his coaching career in 2020 as an assistant at Pleasantville and spent a season at his alma mater, Cedar Creek, in 2021.
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The Atlantic County, N.J., native went on to play college football at ASA College in Brooklyn, N.Y., before becoming a two-year starter and all-conference defensive back at FIU in 2018-19. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2020.
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