Start: January 23, 2024 11 a.m.
End: January 23, 2024 12 p.m.
Location: Whitinger Building Room 142
Contact Details
Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute
765-285-7272
Rich Maloney, Head Baseball Coach, Ball State
Rich Maloney is the baseball head coach at Ball State University. In 2023, he led his team to a Mid-American Conference championship and reached the NCAA Regionals. Maloney began his head coaching career at Ball State from 1996-2001, then led the Michigan Wolverines from 2003-2012. In 2013, he returned to Ball State, where he remains today. He is a four-time Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year and has 954 career wins as a head coach. As a player, Maloney was selected in the 13th round of the 1986 MLB Draft by the Atlanta Braves and played six seasons in the Braves organization before retiring after reaching Double-A in 1991. He played collegiately at Western Michigan. Maloney has coached 68 players who were drafted 75 times. He's coached six first round picks, all of them at Ball State. Of Maloney's six first round draft picks at Ball State, only one was drafted out of high school. Ball State has had 10 players drafted in the top 4 rounds under Maloney.