Akron athletics has announced that assistant coach Jared Embick will be named the new men’s soccer head coach, taking over for Caleb Porter at the end of the season.

Embick, the 2010 National Assistant Coach of the Year, will become the program’s seventh head coach after Porter announced in August his intention to become the head coach of Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers.

Embick has agreed in principle to a three-year contract, pending approval by the University’s Board of Trustees. He released the following statement:

“For the last six years, I have been fortunate to work with and learn from Caleb Porter, one of the best coaches in the history of college soccer. I will continue to use those experiences to keep Akron at the pinnacle of college soccer.”

[Akron Athletics]