| Title: | Volunteer Assistant Coach |
| Phone: | 931-372-3853 |
| Email: | c-amaloney@tntech.edu |
Tennessee Tech head baseball coach Steve Smith rounded out his coaching staff for the 2021 campaign ahead, adding Alex Maloney to the group as a volunteer assistant coach.
Maloney, who will serve as the Golden Eagles' infield coach and camp director, joins the Tech staff after spending the past two years as a graduate assistant coach at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich.
Working primarily with the pitching staff, Maloney saw the Warriors cruise to an 11-4 start to the 2020 season before the COVID-19 pandemic brought a halt to all competition. In 2019, Wayne State finished 35-17 overall with a 17-10 mark in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
During the summer of 2019, Maloney served as an assistant coach in the United Shores Professional Baseball League, working with the infielders and hitters. He also assisted with evaluating and recruiting athletes.
Prior to 2019, he played professionally for the Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers of the USPBL in 2017 and then within the Chicago White Sox organization in 2017 and 2018.
Maloney played collegiately at Ball State from 2013-17 where he was a team captain and a four-year starter. Primarily a shortstop, third baseman and reliever for the Cardinals, he helped lead Ball State to Mid-American Conference West Division titles in 2014 and 2016 as well as an overall MAC regular-season championship in 2016. He finished his time in Muncie, Ind. ranked in the top-five in program history in multiple career categories.
He tied for second in walks (120), was third in both at-bats (865) and games started (226), tied for third in games played (227) and tied for fourth in sacrifice flies (15). Maloney was named a Top-300 prospect in 2016 by D1Baseball.com and was rated a Top-50 shortstop for the 2017 season. As a senior, he earned the team's "Dirt Bag Award" for the player who is voted to be the hardest worker and most determined student-athlete.
In 2017, Maloney graduated from Ball State with a bachelor's degree in political science and minor in business information systems. He earned his master's degree in business administration in November 2020.
