Jacob Templar

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Jacob Templar (born October 30, 1992 in Wagga Wagga ) is an Australian American football player in the position of punter who has been part of the Hildesheim Invaders team in the German Football League (GFL) since May 2019 .

Life

Origin and private life

Templar grew up in Brisbane , the capital of the state of Queensland , and attended Victoria Point High School there. After graduating from school, he first worked as a salesman in a car dealership . Since autumn 2019 he has been doing an internship in a company for orthopedic technology in Hildesheim and at the same time acquired CEFR certificates for German as a second language in order to be able to begin dual training as an orthopedic technology mechanic from August 2020 . In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , however, the internship was ended by the employer in spring 2020.

On his YouTube channel Punting For The People , he has been giving an insight into his everyday sporting and private life as a foreign American football player in Germany since February 9, 2018 . He is a fan of the NFL team Miami Dolphins and describes Pat McAfee as his sporting role model. He played as a punter for the Indianapolis Colts between 2009 and 2016 and was elected to the Pro Bowl twice during his career .

Athletic career

Templar has played Australian football since childhood , but switched to American football in 2014 following an ankle injury . He enrolled at Golden West College - a community college in California Huntington Beach - and hoped for an athletic scholarship for the NCAA Division I . However, due to formal irregularities in the transfer, it was not taken into account. He then moved back to his hometown.

He then played very successfully in 2014 and 2015 as a wide receiver , safety and punter in Brisbane for the Bayside Ravens, who compete in the amateur league Gridiron Queensland. In these two seasons he caught passes for a total of over 2000 yards . In addition, he set a club record with 21 captured touchdowns in one season. The Prokick Australia Punting Academy then named him a potential candidate for the NCAA Division I. In spring 2015, he was included in the provisional 75-man squad of the Australian national team for the World Cup held in the United States in July of the same year ; but ultimately canceled before the tournament. In the following season, 2016, he played for Griffith University Thunder - a team that had only recently been founded at the Brisbane-based university of the same name .

On February 11, 2017, the Dresden Monarchs announced the commitment of Templar and he was able to celebrate his debut in the GFL at the start of the season on May 6 at the home game against the Hildesheim Invaders . At the end of the 2017 season , he and his team reached the quarter-finals of the play-offs . The following season of 2018 was even more successful with the move into the play-off semi-finals. For the 2019 season Templar moved to the Hildesheim Invaders. With 1831 punting yards , he finished second in the league and his average punting distance of 40.7 yards was even the best. So he played a key role in ensuring that the Invaders reached the play-off quarter-finals.

Awards

  • 2014: Bayside Ravens Offensive MVP
  • 2014: Queensland Wide Receiver of the Year
  • 2016: Griffith Thunder Offensive MVP
  • 2016: Griffith Thunder Overall Team MVP
  • 2016: Queensland Sundevils State Team
  • 2019: GFL Nord All-Star Punter

statistics

Physical data
size Weight 40 yard dash (≙ 36.6 m) Bench press (84 kg) Standing vault
193 cm 102 kg 4.7 s 12 repetitions 91 cm


Jacob Templar's game statistics in the GFL
season society league Games S - U - N Punting
№ Yards Avg Long TB FC I20 50+ Blkd
2017 Dresden monarchs GFL 15 (15) 10 - 0 - 5 39 1405 36.0 55 3 09 14th 3 0
2018 16 (16) 12 - 1 - 3 35 1336 38.2 54 2 07th 19th 1 0
2019 Hildesheim Invaders 15 (15) 10 - 0 - 5 45 1831 40.7 59 1 14th 09 4th 0
2020 Season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Legend
  • Games: Number of games played by Templar in the respective season. The number in brackets shows how many games each team played.
  • S - U - N: Number of wins, draws and losses.
  • № = number: number of punts.
  • Yards: the total of all punts in yards.
  • Avg = Average: Average width of the punts in yards.
  • Long: Value of the furthest point in yards.
  • TB: Number of touchbacks after punts.
  • FC: Number of fair catches after punts.
  • I20 = Inside the 20: Number of points that were kicked beyond the 20-yard line into the opposing “red zone”.
  • 50+: Punts with a width of more than 50 yards.
  • Blkd = Blocked: Blocked punts.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Vincent Pervis: "Jacob Templar continues GFL career with Hildesheim Invaders". On February 11, 2019 on recruit.thepodyum.com (The Podyum). Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Germany: Hildesheim Invaders sign Australian P / WR Jacob Templar". On November 29, 2018 on americanfootballinternational.com . Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Profile about Jacob Templar on the homepage of a player agency. Retrieved from recruit.thepodyum.com (The Podyum) on March 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ “Another Australian for the Monarchs!” On February 11, 2017 on dresden-monarchs.de . Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Official statistics homepage of the German Football League. Retrieved from stats.gfl.info on March 5, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Templar, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian American football player on the position of the punter
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagga Wagga , New South Wales , Australia