Casey Malone, a 1998 NCAA Champion and 2004 and ‘08 Olympian, enters his ninth season as the men’s and women’s throws coach at Colorado.

At the foot of the Flatirons, Malone has coached a pair of school record holders in both the women’s indoor weight throw (Cortney Hutmacher, 62-08.50) and men’s indoor weight (Zach Hazen, 63-09.50) along with the men’s outdoor weight throw (Zach Hazen, 210-11).  He has also tutored five NCAA qualifiers, 10 regional qualifiers, four junior national qualifiers and several Big 12 scorers and champions.  At the 2007 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, Malone had four throwers score for the Buffs, which included his first Big 12 Champion in Hannah Warfield-Ruffatto (javelin). Zach Hazen scored in two events for the Buffs, taking second in the hammer throw and eighth in the discus. Warfield-Ruffatto earned the Olympic ‘A’ Qualifying standard and Hazen recorded the ‘B’ standard during the season. In 2008, he coached James Begley to the Big 12 Discus crown. 

A four-time All-American and 1998 NCAA discus champion at Colorado State, he owns a 218-6 pr in the event, thrown at Northern Colorado in 2001.  Malone was also the 1996 Junior National and Junior World Champion and finished sixth at the 1998 Goodwill Games.  He competed in the 1996 Olympic Trials, finishing 18th, improving to ninth four years later for a shot at the 2000 Olympic Games.  Four-years and another trial later, he was named to the United States roster when he finished third at the trials in Sacramento.  The only American to advance to the finals, he would go on to finish sixth in Athens, the best effort for an American in the event. Malone once again took third at the U.S. Trials in 2008 to advance to his second Olympic Games. He placed 19th in the prelims of the discus at Beijing.

Following the 2004 Olympic Games, Malone received invitations to compete on the European Grand Prix circuit.  In Brussels he finished fourth, throwing 64 meters in the Golden League Meet and sixth in Berlin in the ISTAF Golden League Meet.  He had earned enough Grand Prix points to compete in the World Athletic Final in Monaco, where he finished seventh before returning to the States.

Born April 6, 1977, Malone is a Wheat Ridge, Colo. native and lettered in football, basketball and track at Arvada West.  He graduated from Colorado State in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a concentration in painting.  In his free time he still creates discus-inspired, figural artwork.

Malone married the former Lindsey Malmgren, an assistant track and field/combined events/jumps coach at CU, in Sept. 2005. They currently reside in Fort Collins, Colo.