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Jared Odenbeck

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    Assistant Coach

Former Division I standout Jared Odenbeck begins his second season as an assistant coach for Penn State Harrisburg's women's soccer program in 2025. 


Odenbeck helped lead Penn State Harrisburg to the NCAA Tournament after capturing the 2024 United East Championship thanks to a thrilling victory over St. Mary's (Md.) in PK's in the conference title game. Three players in Kylie Yap, Diana Pon and Julia Hughes secured United Soccer Coaches All-Region honors, while Yap was also tabbed the United East Defensive Player of the Year. In total, 10 players were named all-conference, while Yap, Pon, Ava Myers, Sarah Toche-Manley and Sydney Mulka earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District recognition. 


Odenbeck completed his collegiate career at Wake Forest University after it began at Georgetown University in 2013. While at WFU, he helped the Demon Deacons to an NCAA National Championship Game appearance in 2016, an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championship, and a pair of regular season conference titles. Appearing in nearly 60 games for Wake Forest, he earned the Walt Chyzowych Award For Leadership and Character following his senior campaign. 


After college, Odenbeck went on to play professionally, first for the Charlotte Independence in 2017 before heading to Sweden and Lindome GIF later that year. He joined Tormenta FC in 2018 and made his way to the Western Suburbs Football Club of the New Zealand Premier League the following season. He was a member of Stumptown Athletic for three years before joining FC Tucson in 2021. He followed it up by joining Ljungskile SK in Sweden for the 2022-23 seasons.


Odenbeck has a plethora of coaching experience at various levels, joined the ranks of Performance Unlimited in Charlotte, N.C. in 2017 before coming onboard as an assistant with the Charlotte Eagles U19 group later that year. He became as assistant for Charlotte Christian School for three seasons and added U12 to his repertoire with Western Suburbs/Olé Football Academy in New Zealand in 2019.