{{short description|Canadian retired soccer player (born 1980)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Brian Rowland | image = <!-- 150px --> | fullname = Brian Rowland | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|12|30}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}} | position = Goalkeeper | currentclub = | clubnumber = | collegeyears1 = 1999–2003 | college1 = UMBC Retrievers | years1 = 1998–1999 | clubs1 = Halifax Town | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 2001–2002 | clubs2 = Chesapeake Dragons | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 2003–2004 | clubs3 = Toronto Lynx | caps3 = 1 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2003–2005 | clubs4 = Baltimore Blast (indoor) | caps4 = 18 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2005–2006 | clubs5 = California Cougars (indoor) | caps5 = 3 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 2006 | clubs6 = Baltimore Blast (indoor) | caps6 = 17 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2006–2007 | clubs7 = Milwaukee Wave (indoor) | caps7 = 6 | goals7 = 0 | years8 = 2007–2009 | clubs8 = Crystal Palace Baltimore | caps8 = 53 | goals8 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2001 | nationalteam1 = Canada U-20 | nationalcaps1 = 0 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | medaltemplates = |manageryears1 = 2010–2017 |manageryears2 = 2018–2022 |managerclubs1 = Maryland Terrapins (assistant) |managerclubs2 = Temple Owls | pcupdate = 22 December 2017 | ntupdate = }}
'''Brian Rowland''' (born December 30, 1980) is a Canadian retired soccer player who was a goalkeeper in both the indoor and outdoor versions of the sport. He is formerly the head coach for the Temple Owls men's soccer team.<ref name="Owls">{{cite web |url=http://temple-news.com/sports/temple-hires-mens-soccer-coach/ |title=Temple hires men's soccer coach |publisher=The Temple News |date=December 22, 2017 |access-date=December 22, 2017 }}</ref>
==Career==
===College=== Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rowland played college soccer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he was a four-year starter between 1999 and 2002. In 2002, he earned first team All-America East Conference, and was named an All-America honorable mention. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2003.<ref name="feartheturtle">[http://www.umterps.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/021510aaa.html "Rowland Named Assistant Coach," University of Maryland Athletics, Monday, February 15, 2010.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509193405/http://www.umterps.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/021510aaa.html |date=May 9, 2012 }}</ref>
===International=== Rowland was a member of the Canada national U20 Team, the Eastern Canadian U19 regional team and the Ontario U20 Team. He played in a friendly match for Manchester United while on trial there, trained with Everton, and Fulham, and played a couple of first team games for Halifax Town as a triallist in 1998 and 1999.
During the 2001 and 2002 Rowland also played for the Chesapeake Dragons in the Premier Development League.
===Professional=== Rowland turned professional upon his graduation from college in 2003, and played for his hometown club Toronto Lynx in 2003 and 2004. Rowland also has extensive indoor soccer experience, having spent time playing for Baltimore Blast, the California Cougars and Milwaukee Wave.
Rowland signed with Crystal Palace Baltimore in 2007, and has been the team's first choice goalkeeper since then, helping the team to the USL-2 postseason for the first time in 2008. He became an assistant coach for the University of Maryland men's soccer team when he retired as an active player on February 15, 2010.<ref name="feartheturtle"/><ref>[http://www.palacebaltimore.com/home/403053.html "Two New Goalkeepers Brought In As Rowland Retires," Crystal Palace Baltimore, Thursday, February 18, 2010.]</ref>
===Coaching=== After retiring from playing, Rowland was an assistant coach for the Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team for eight years, serving as the associate head coach 2015–17. On December 22, 2017, he was named head coach of the Temple Owls of the American Athletic Conference.<ref name="Owls"/>
==Personal== A native of Toronto, Ontario, Rowland earned his bachelor's degree in economics from UMBC in 2003. Rowland holds a USSF A License (2012) and is involved with US Soccer as a scout for their Youth National Teams.<ref name="Owls"/>
Since 2004 Rowland has run a goalkeeper specific training camp named "Rowland Keeper Academy."<ref>[http://www.rowlandkeeperacademy.com Rowland Keeper Academy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619232419/http://www.rowlandkeeperacademy.com/ |date=June 19, 2008 }}</ref>
==Career statistics== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="2"|League !colspan="2"|Cup{{efn|name=fn1|Includes U.S. Open Cup}} !colspan="2"|Play-Offs !colspan="2"|Total |- !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals |- |rowspan="1" valign="top"|Crystal Palace Baltimore |2007 |19||0||1||0||-||-||20||0 |- |Crystal Palace Baltimore |2008 |13||0||2||0||2||0||17||0 |- |Crystal Palace Baltimore |2009 |20||0||1||0||0||0||21||0 |- style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#eeeeee;" |'''Total'''||2007–present||53||0||3||0||2||0||58||0 |}
==Head coaching record==
{{CBB Yearly Record Start |type=coach |conference= |postseason= |poll= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead |name=Temple Owls |startyear=2018 |conference=American Athletic Conference |endyear= |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 2018 | name = Temple | overall = 5–10–2 | conference = 2–4–1 | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 2018 | name = Temple | overall = 8–8–2 | conference = 3–2–2 | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 2018 | name = Temple | overall = 5–4–2 | conference = 5–4–2 | confstanding = 3rd | postseason = American Semifinals }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 2018 | name = Temple | overall = 2–12–2 | conference = 0–10–0 | confstanding = 6th (Last) | postseason = None }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Temple | overall = 20–34–10 ({{Winning percentage|0|0|0}}) | confrecord = 10–20–5 ({{Winning percentage|0|0|0}}) }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Temple | overall = 20–34–10 ({{Winning percentage|0|0|0}}) | confrecord = 0–0–0 ({{Winning percentage|0|0|0}}) }} {{CBB Yearly Record End | overall = 20–34–10 ({{Winning percentage|0|0|0}}) |confrecord = | poll = two | polltype= | polltype2 = }}
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090519235129/http://www.crystalpalaceusa.com/PLAYER-Rowland.php Crystal Palace Baltimore player profile] * [https://owlsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/coaches/brian-rowland/4517 Temple Owls bio]
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