Coach Maloney has had a very successful tenure as head varsity baseball coach at Warren Mott High School. During his five years, the Marauders have won one league title, won four district titles, won a regional title, were state runner-up in Division 1 during the 2002 season, and he has been named coach of the year seven times of his nine year career. In this same time frame, Coach Maloney has coached nine college players, seven all-state players, and one Mr. Baseball award winner.
While attending college, Coach Maloney began his coaching career by spending two years as a volunteer assistant coach under legendary Hall of Fame Coach Robert DeStefano at Roseville High School. After two years, Coach Maloney took his first head coaching job as the head JV baseball coach at Sterling Heights High School and he coached there for four years before being hired to take over the Warren Mott baseball program in December of 2000.
Every year, Coach Maloney creates one of the toughest schedules in the state of Michigan. This is done to prepare the players for the state tournament and to see how we match up against the best of the best. Every year, the team travels to play at the University of Michigan, at historic Blissfield, and to Coldwater.
Coach Maloney also runs a high school summer baseball league in Macomb County called the Southeast Michigan Baseball Conference. This league is geared toward giving kids an opportunity to play summer baseball with members of their own high school and to afford an opportunity better than recreational baseball for the kids who cannot play for elite federation teams. The intent of the league is to improve the quality of baseball in the Macomb County area. Coach Maloney has had summer baseball teams at Warren Mott High School during all of his seasons. The team is called the Warren Mott Baseball Club Marauders.
Coach Maloney prides himself in building relationships with his players. That explains why so many former players come back for practices and games. "I believe that winning is important but more important than winning is helping develop men out of the boys that come through my program," Coach Maloney explains "when I start seeing these kids graduate from high school, college, or trade school and make a difference in other people’s lives, I will have a smile on my face, that is more important than any victory, any day."
Career coaching highlights for Coach Maloney include winning the league and district championship in his first year of coaching. Defeating defending state champion and #1 ranked Grosse Pointe South to win the 2002 Regional Championship. Playing in front of 5,000 fans in the state semifinal game at C.O Brown Stadium in Battle Creek and playing for the state championship on Nichols field.