Patrick Malone was named assistant swimming and diving coach in June, 2021.
Malone and the rest of the UMBC swimming and diving staff earned America East Men's Swimming and Diving Coaching Staff of the Meet in leading the team to the league title.
Malone served for three years as head coach at Manhattan College. Thirteen Jaspers were selected to the 2020 MAAC Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving All-Academic Teams.
Prior to his stint at Manhattan, Malone spent three seasons at Long Island University (2015-18). He served as the interim head coach from May to October in 2016 and then worked under Coach Donovan until his move to the Bronx.
While at LIU, Malone oversaw 29 individual finishes inside the top-eight at the NEC Championships. In that time, the program ranked in the top-five in team GPA among LIU Brooklyn's athletic squads.
“We are very excited to be adding Patrick Malone to our coaching staff here at UMBC,” said Donovan. “He brings a great deal of energy and experience to our program. He has proven to be an excellent recruiter and has a strong ability to coach swimmers in a variety of events, specifically sprint and butterfly. We are truly fortunate to have Coach Malone as a part of our program moving forward.”
From his time as a student-athlete to his coaching experience, Malone has established his swimming roots in South Jersey. Since April of 2018, he has held the title of USA Swimming age Group Head Coach at the South Jersey Aquatic Club in Voorhees, NJ. There, he developed and supervised practices in and out of the pool and organized dry land programs for each age group in the swim club.
In Cherry Hill, NJ, Malone was the head coach at the Kingston Estates Community Swim Club. Building a staff with three assistants, he coached a summer league team of 100-plus children from ages 3-18 for three seasons from 2014-2016.
As a student-athlete at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, Malone earned NJAC First-Team All-Conference honors in the 200 butterfly in 2012, leading to an Honorable Mention All-American accolade in NCAA Division III. He was also named to the Second-Team in the 200 Fly, 200 and 400 Medley Relays in his Profs’ tenure.
Outside of the pool, Malone was an Academic All-American from 2011-13 and was recognized as a Rowan Scholar-Athlete and a Philadelphia Inquirer Men's Swimming Academic All-Area recipient in 2013. The next year, Malone received the Richard Wacker Award for upperclassmen leadership as a team captain.
Malone earned his Bachelor of Arts in geography with a concentration in geosciences from Rowan in 2014 before receiving his Master of Sciences in education in adolescence urban education – social studies from LIU in 2018.
