Malone College Athletics

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Malone College Pioneers
University	Malone College (Ohio)
Conference	Mid-States Football Association; football American Mideast Conference; all other sports
NAIA	Region IX
Athletics director	Hal Smith
Location	Canton, OH
Varsity teams	16
Football stadium	Fawcett Stadium
Basketball arena	Osborne Hall (Gymnasium)
Baseball stadium	Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium
Mascot	Maxamoose
Nickname	Pioneers
Fight song	Malone College Fight Song
Colors	Blue and Red
Homepage	Malone Athletics

Malone College Athletics teams are known as the Pioneers. They participate in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the American Mideast Conference. For football, the school competes in the Mid-States Football Association.

Men's Sports Baseball Basketball Cross Country Football Golf Soccer Tennis Track & Field

Women's Sports Basketball Cross Country Golf Soccer Softball Tennis Track & Field Volleyball

Contents 1 Baseball 2 Football 3 Track & Field/Cross-Country 4 Volleyball 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Baseball

A winning tradition was established on the baseball diamond at Malone by late NAIA Hall of Fame Coach Bob Starcher. Coach Starcher led the Pioneer baseball program for 23 seasons and accumulating 521 wins while at Malone. During Starcher’s tenure as head coach, the program experienced 19 winning seasons and 12 conference or district titles. This winning legacy has been revived under current head coach Tom Crank, who guided the 2006 Pioneer baseball team to a school record 40 wins (40-20) and an NCCAA national title.^[1]

In 2007, the last baseball game was played on the site of long-time Bob Starcher Field at Malone College. The school plans to build new student dormitories on the site and for the 2008 season the baseball team will play their home games at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton, Ohio. The college has plans to build a new on-campus baseball field in 2009.^[2]

[edit] Football

Malone College has played football since 1993 and has an all-time record of 77 wins, 77 losses, and 2 ties. The current head football coach is Mike Gardner, who has held the position since 2006. Under Gardner's leadership, the team played for the NCCAA Victory Bowl in 2006^[3] and in 2007.^[4]

Year	Record (W-L-T)	Head Coach	Notes
1993	2-6-1	Palmisano
1994	7-3-0	Palmisano
1995	10-1-1	Gravier
1996	8-2-0	Gravier
1997	5-5-0	Gravier
1998	7-4-0	Gravier
1999	4-6-0	Saulnier
2000	4-7-0	Saulnier
2001	2-8-0	Saulnier
2002	4-6-0	Hanson
2003	2-8-0	Hanson
2004	4-6-0	Hanson
2005	3-7-0	Hanson
2006	7-4-0	Gardner	Victory Bowl lost to North Greenville University
2007	8-4-0	Gardner	Victory Bowl defeated Geneva College
	77-77-2	All-Time Record

[edit] Track & Field/Cross-Country

There have been a total of 133 Men's NAIA track and field All-Americans and 17 NAIA national champions. On the woman's side, there have been 59 NAIA All-Americans and two national champions. Both of these totals include indoor and outdoor track and field. Keith Spiva is arguably the most accomplished track and field athlete produced by Malone. He won 4 NAIA national titles and was named an All-American 6 times. He is also the only Malone track and field athlete to win back-to-back national titles in a single event (1989 and 1990 200 meter dash). Combination of track and field with cross-country accomplishments, there have been 69 additional Men's NAIA All-Americans and 28 Woman's NAIA All-Americans. Moreover, Malone has produces one Men's and one Woman's individual cross country national champions.^[5]

Malone has won the following national honors:

NAIA Men's national cross-country champions: 1972 and 2007 ^[6]
NAIA Men's national cross-country runner-up: 1973, 1980, 1989, and 2001^[7]
NAIA Woman's national cross-country champions: 1999^[8]
NAIA Woman's national cross-country runner-up: 1998^[9]

NCCAA Men's national track & field champions: 1973, 1989, 1991, and 2007^[10][11]
NCCAA Men's national cross-country champions (Division I): 1986-1992, 1994, 1995, 1997-2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006^[12]
NCCAA Woman's national track & field champions: 1987-1989, 1999-2002, 2004, and 2005^[13]
NCCAA Woman's national cross-country champions (Division I): 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997-1999, and 2004^[14]

[edit] Volleyball

Women's Volleyball has been played at Malone since 1975 and has an all-time record of 621 wins, 502 losses, and 4 ties. The current coach Tanya Hockman^[15] has been head of the program since 1999 and has held the position longer than any other vollebyall coach at Malone.^[16] The team competes in the American Mideast Conference North Division.

The Malone volleyball program has been an extremely successful one through the years, particularly in the mid 1980’s and now under eight-year head coach Tanya Hockman, who has led the team to a 213-118 record during her tenure. The 2001 team tied the school record for most wins in a season at 41 and the program has six 25+ win seasons in its last nine campaigns. The program also has two AMC titles (2000, 2001) under Hockman.^[17]

Year	Record (W-L-T)	Head Coach
1975	2-6	Kathi Booth
1976	8-7	Cindy Jones
1977	7-6	Darlene Young
1978	8-15	Janet Lasater
1979	7-16	Sharon Wellsby
1980	8-17	Sharon Wellsby
1981	14-15	Judy Hahn
1982	31-8	Judy Hahn
1983	41-8	Judy Hahn
1984	40-2	Judy Hahn
1985	33-13	Debbie Davidson
1986	16-24	Debbie Davidson
1987	7-19	Vera Shaver
1988	13-16	Vera Shaver
1989	12-37	Shawn Riley
1990	8-22	Shawn Riley
1991	16-29	Shawn Riley
1992	25-18	Shawn Riley
1993	13-21	Shawn Riley
1994	23-14	Cherie Harsh (Parsons)
1995	15-22	Cherie Parsons
1996	15-19	Cherie Parsons
1997	15-18	Cherie Parsons
1998	31-12	Cherie Parsons
1999	29-11	Tanya Hockman
2000	30-14	Tanya Hockman
2001	41-8	Tanya Hockman
2002	20-15	Tanya Hockman
2003	28-9	Tanya Hockman
2004	27-20	Tanya Hockman
2005	16-21	Tanya Hockman
2006	22-20	Tanya Hockman
2007	23-18	Tanya Hockman
	644-520-4	All-Time Record

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Malone Athletics
• College Football Data Warehouse