Temple University Athletics
Women's Cross Country
Ashley Deckert
- Title:
- Graduate Assistant
- Email:
- ashley.deckert@temple.edu
Ashley Deckert joined the Temple Athletic staff this fall as the Graduate Assistant for Men’s Cross Country. Deckert assists in handling the daily responsibilities for the men’s cross country team and helps manage the social media content for Temple XC/T&F Owls. Deckert is working towards obtaining her master’s degree in Adult Organizational and Development at Temple University.
With just a short drive over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Deckert is a Jersey girl and proud alumna of Delsea Regional High School in Franklinville, NJ, where she competed in both cross country and long distance events for track & field.
During her collegiate cross country career, Deckert wore the scarlet “R” and competed in the 800, 1,000 and 1,500- meter races on behalf of Rutgers University. At Rutgers, Deckert broke a 25-year old record in the 1,000-meter race, as well as achieved best top performances in the 800, 1,500 and 1 mile race in 2012, 2013 and 2014. She also earned All-Eastern honors in the 1,500- meter race as a junior. Deckert completed her undergraduate degree in journalism and media studies, with a minor in English in May of 2015.
After her career as an athlete, she worked as a marketing assistant at Out-of-Home Advertising Agency, Posterscope USA in Manhattan, NY. Here, she handled the day-to-day responsibilities and content generated for the company’s blog, social media accounts, case studies, weekly and monthly newsletters and press releases for all upcoming campaigns.
Preceding this position, Deckert went on to be a volunteer assistant for her former high school, Delsea Regional, with the boy’s cross country and track and field programs. While at Delsea Regional, sh assisted her father, head coach Ronald Deckert, with the daily operations of the boy’s high school practices and competitions. Deckert helped coach a Sectional Champion in the 1,600-meter race. Additionally, she coached two freshman boys’ to achieving national qualifying marks in the freshman 3,200-meter race.
From here, Deckert went on to become the Head Coach for boy’s cross country at Triton Regional High School. She designed training regimens for each individual athlete and implemented speed and agility, hurdle drills, threshold/track workouts and core routines into their summer training.
Deckert served as a Track and Field Competition Escort for the Special Olympic Games in 2014 and 2015. She also volunteers for the Franklinville Track Club that is run every summer, to help guide junior high school athletes to both understand and participate in all of the events competed in track and field.
With just a short drive over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Deckert is a Jersey girl and proud alumna of Delsea Regional High School in Franklinville, NJ, where she competed in both cross country and long distance events for track & field.
During her collegiate cross country career, Deckert wore the scarlet “R” and competed in the 800, 1,000 and 1,500- meter races on behalf of Rutgers University. At Rutgers, Deckert broke a 25-year old record in the 1,000-meter race, as well as achieved best top performances in the 800, 1,500 and 1 mile race in 2012, 2013 and 2014. She also earned All-Eastern honors in the 1,500- meter race as a junior. Deckert completed her undergraduate degree in journalism and media studies, with a minor in English in May of 2015.
After her career as an athlete, she worked as a marketing assistant at Out-of-Home Advertising Agency, Posterscope USA in Manhattan, NY. Here, she handled the day-to-day responsibilities and content generated for the company’s blog, social media accounts, case studies, weekly and monthly newsletters and press releases for all upcoming campaigns.
Preceding this position, Deckert went on to be a volunteer assistant for her former high school, Delsea Regional, with the boy’s cross country and track and field programs. While at Delsea Regional, sh assisted her father, head coach Ronald Deckert, with the daily operations of the boy’s high school practices and competitions. Deckert helped coach a Sectional Champion in the 1,600-meter race. Additionally, she coached two freshman boys’ to achieving national qualifying marks in the freshman 3,200-meter race.
From here, Deckert went on to become the Head Coach for boy’s cross country at Triton Regional High School. She designed training regimens for each individual athlete and implemented speed and agility, hurdle drills, threshold/track workouts and core routines into their summer training.
Deckert served as a Track and Field Competition Escort for the Special Olympic Games in 2014 and 2015. She also volunteers for the Franklinville Track Club that is run every summer, to help guide junior high school athletes to both understand and participate in all of the events competed in track and field.
Ep. 10: Temple Homecoming Preview; Volleyball Assistant Coach Taylor Davenport
Tuesday, October 07
Ep. 9: Head Women's Soccer Coach Chris Shaw
Friday, October 03
Ep. 8: Temple Athletics Weekly Recap; Women's Cross Country Runner Amelia Sabatino
Tuesday, September 30
Ep. 7: Temple Field Hockey Alumna Cherifa Howarth
Friday, September 26
