Ed Temple was twice the head coach of the U.S. Olympic Team (1960, 1964) and was the man who led and inspired the Tennessee State University women’s track & field program for 44 years before retiring after the 1993-94 academic year. Temple almost single handedly led the rise of Black women in the sport as the coach of Hall of Fame athletes including Olympic champions Wilma Rudolph, Wyomia Tyus, Madeline Manning, Mae Faggs and Edith McGuire, as well as Martha Watson, Willye White and Chandra Cheeseborough among many others. Temple coached 23 Olympic medalists, 30 Pan American Games medalists, as well as eight USATF Hall of Fame inductees. His Tigerbelle teams were perennial national champions, capturing a total of 34 team titles, 16 indoors, 13 outdoors and five in the junior meet. His commitment was true not only to the athletic accomplishments of those he coached, but also to the value of education, which is evident in the fact that 39 of his 40 Olympians have one or more college degrees. The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native was also a great athlete in his own right. He earned All-City honors in track, football and basketball at John Harris High School before moving on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in Health and Physical Education from Tennessee Agricultural and Mechanical State College, where he also minored in Sociology. Civically active in Nashville in several areas, Temple is also the author of a book published in 1980, “Only the Pure in Heart Survive.” Among his many honors are inductions into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, Helms Hall of Fame, the Tennessee State University Hall of Fame, the Harrisburg Central Area Chapter Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame and the Communiplex National Sports Hall of Fame. Temple died September 22, 2016. He was 89.