Bill Malloy competed for four years at Indiana State in cross country and track & field from 1946 through 1949, receiving the McMillan Award for the most outstanding athlete graduating from Indiana State in 1949.
He was a member of one of the best mile relay teams in school history (along with Ken Kinney, Byford Reed and Tom Scott), a team that went undefeated and won the Little State Meet in 1949 with a time of 3:26.8.
Malloy was also a successful high school coach, winning 43 major championships while at Wiley High school and lost just five dual meets in a 13-year high school coaching career. He also hosted the first indoor track meet in Terre Haute as Wiley took on Shortridge High School in 1953. The event was held at Rose-Hulman who had purchased a B-19 double hangar to produce the first indoor track facility in the area.
He was named the Indiana State University head cross country coach and assistant track & field coach in 1967. A year later, in 1968, he became ISU’s head track & field coach.
Known as a constant innovator among his peers, Malloy coached the Sycamores to ICC titles in 1967 and 1968, and coached the ISU men to the 1976 NCAA Division I Championships.
Among the athletes that he coached was Cheryl Pedlow, who was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at Indiana State and in the state of Indiana in 1966. Also in track, he coached two All-Americans (Ivory Giles in the high jump and Jim Ulrich in the javelin) and four NCAA Division I National Championship qualifiers.
In cross country, Malloy coached Charlie Warthan as he qualified for the NCAA Division I National Championships, finishing 41st overall.
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Lost only five dual meets in 13 year high school coaching career
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Hosted first indoor track meet in the Terre Haute area in 1953 (Wiley vs. Shortridge)
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Coached Cheryl Pedlow, the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at Indiana State and in the state of Indiana (1968)
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Coached two All-Americans
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Coached four NCAA Division I National Championship qualifiers
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Coached Charlie Warthan who finished 41st in Cross Country Nationals, the highest finish for any Indiana State athlete.
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Coached 1976 men’s track & field team to the NCAA Division I Championships.
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Led Indiana State to Indiana Collegiate Conference titles (1967, 1968)
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Inducted into Hall of Fame February 13, 2010
