Hilary Steele | Head Coach

Hilary Steele enters her second season with Temple and first as head coach as she was hired on June 16, 2023 to lead the program.

During the 2022-23 season, Steele spent time as the lead assistant for Temple as she helped the squad to six of the team’s Top 20 scores in school history, including the third and fourth highest overall scores.   With her primary apparatus being the beam, Steele helped the Cherry and White to two of the program’s Top 10 scores.  Seven of her student-athletes matched or set career highs on the beam with two Owls earning All-EAGL on beam under her tutelage.

Prior to her arrival at Temple, Steele served as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Maryland, assisting with all four events with her primary focus being on the floor and vault.  She helped Maryland earn a #20 national ranking during the season, post the second through fifth highest point totals in program history, and have one of its gymnasts earn All-American honors for the first time since 2013.

While coaching in College Park, Steele was also an Optional Coach at Hill's Gymnastics Training Center in Maryland, known for training some of the best gymnasts on the East Coast. 

Prior to Maryland, Steele lived in Hawaii for five years, working as a coach and competitive athlete for Crossfit.  She was a five-time Crossfit Games Regional Competitor from 2015 to 2019 and was recognized as the top 1% of worldwide Crossfit competitors.  While competing, she was twice named Fittest Athlete in Hawaii in 2017 and 2018 and Fittest in Delaware in 2019. 

During her time in Hawaii, Steele rose from Optional Coach to the Director of Coaching and Head Coach of Kokokahi Gymnastics team in Kaneohe, Hawaii.  Steele rebuilt the Kokokahi program and was instrumental in having one of her athletes sign with a college gymnastics program for the first time in seven years.

As a student-athlete at Georgia (2007-11), Steele, who competed under her maiden name, Mauro, helped the GymDogs win the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Championships.  As a freshman, she earned second team All-America honors on the beam with a 9.85 score.   Also, during her collegiate career, she helped lead Georgia to the 2008 SEC Championship while earning all-SEC Freshman Team honors.  In 2011, she won the SEC Vault individual championship. 

After earning her degree from Georgia, she served as a volunteer assistant coach for the program during the 2011-12 season.

Prior to her time at Georgia, Steele was a USA Gymnastics National Team member from 2005 to 2007.  She competed internationally, earning a silver medal on balance beam at the World Cup in Ghent Belgium, a silver medal on Floor Exercise in Ireland, and a silver medal on floor at the Houston International Invitational.  She was an alternate for the 2006 Team USA World Championship Team where she trained under Mary Lee Tracy.

Steele and her husband, Matthew, are the parents of a newborn daughter, Gracen Piper.

Brittney Miller | Assistant Coach

Miller joined Temple in August of 2023 after a decorated gymnastics career at the University Nebraska, Division I coaching experience with stops at the University of Penn and Pitt, and various club gymnastics stops in Pennsylvania and the  New Jersey area.

The Hatboro, Pa. native recently has coached at the club level with Precision Gymnastics, Silvia's Gymnastics, and Liberty Bell Athletics where she's assisted in the collegiate recruiting process. Miller's teaching success has guided some of her former gymnasts  to collegiate rosters, including West Virginia, Ursinus, Bridgeport, Ball State, and Bowling Green.

As a Division I assistant coach, Miller's most recent stop was across town at the University of Pennsylvania from 2015-2019. In five seasons, the Quakers earned six on the All-ECAC First Team and five on the second team. In 2019, the Quakers earned their highest  team score (195.075) since the 2012 season. Miller also coached the ECAC and Ivy Classic Bars Champion (2016), ECAC and Ivy Classic Vault Champion (2017), and the 2018 and the 2019 ECAC Bars Champion.

Prior to Penn, the former Cornhusker spent the 2015 season with the University of Pittsburgh as a volunteer assistant coach. Miller's main focus was on the floor and vault where she helped developed the choreography and routines. Concluding the 2015 season,  three Panthers were named to the All-EAGL First Team on bars, beam, and floor, and four earned plaudits on the second team on bars, vault, beam, and all-around. Miller assisted in the coaching of Lindsay Offutt who advanced to the 2015 NCAA Regional on the  beam after winning the EAGL championship in the same event.

Before getting into collegiate coaching, Miller found herself in club coaching at Gymknana Gymnastics in Pittsburgh, Pa. (August 2014-May 2015) and Will-Moor Gymnastics (July 2012-May 2014) in Mount Laurel, N.J., in various aspects teaching preschool/recreational  level gymnasts to working with Level 7-10 athletes at Will-Moor where she formatted all-around choreography and routine placement.

As a standout Division I gymnast, who competed under her maiden name Williams, Miller competed at the University of Nebraska from 2004-09 where she helped the Huskers to the Big XII Team Championship in 2005 and 2007 and a NCAA Super Six team qualifier in 2005-07.  Individually, Miller earned Big XII First Team plaudits on the bars in 2007 and 2009, All Big XII Championship Team in 2009, and the Big XII bar champion in 2009.

Miller graduated from Nebraska in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and was married to Nyere Miller in 2017. The couple have a daughter, Leah.

Joel Shugart | Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator

On Wednesday, the new Temple gymnastics head coach Hilary Steele announced the hiring of Joel Shugart as a new assistant coach.

"I am very excited to welcome Joel to Temple Gymnastics," said Steele. "Joel's energy, and enthusiasm really stood out from the beginning. From our first conversation, it was clear he wanted to be a part of Temple Gymnastics and the future of our program. He has extensive gymnastics knowledge and has built many great relationships throughout the sport that will help elevate our program. Joel is the perfect addition to our coaching staff, and we look forward to achieving the goals we have for this program."

He joins Steele's coaching staff as the second assistant coach hired this month, after Brittany Miller joined the staff on August 10.

The Iowa native got his start in the gymnastics coaching profession in 2012 with the Hawaiian Island Twisters (HIITS) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Shugart graduated from Northern Iowa in 2002 with his bachelor's degree.