Rich Maloney - Ball State baseball coach on gratitude, building a strong culture and divine appointments

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Rich Maloney is the head baseball coach at Ball State University. In 2023, he led his team to a Mid-American conference championship and reached the NCAA Regionals. As a player, Maloney was selected in the 13th round of the 1986 MLB Amateur Draft by the Atlanta Braves and played six seasons in the Braves organization before retiring after reaching AA in 1991.

Maloney began his head coaching career at Ball State from 1996-2001 and then went to Michigan to coach the Wolverines from 2003-2012. In 2013, he returned to Ball State, where he remains as a coach today. He is a four-time Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year and has 954 career wins as a head coach.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Rich Maloney about the importance of culture within the clubhouse, the importance of developing leaders, receiving divine appointments and being an ambassador for Christ.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this is Jason.
0:01.6	Welcome to Sports Spectrum.
0:02.8	We got a great conversation today coming up with Ball State head baseball coach Rich Maloney.
0:09.5	954 career wins.
0:11.5	If you're a coach or a wannabe coach someday, you want to get into this coaching profession, man, get your notebook out.
0:19.2	Get ready to take some notes because the wisdom that
0:21.5	Rich Maloney shares is just on point. That's coming up in a minute. First, I want to tell you
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