Completed Event: Gymnastics versus Texas Woman's on March 15, 2025 , Win , 196.100, to, 195.975
Final
Gymnastics
196.100
Texas Woman's
195.975
Iowa State University Athletics
Gymnastics
Maloney, Kristen
Kristen Maloney
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- kmaloney@iastate.edu
- Phone:
- 4-0555
Multi-time NCCA national champion and member of the 2000 United States Olympic bronze-medal winning team in Sydney, Australia, Kristen Maloney is in her fifth season as an assistant coach at Iowa State. Maloney coaches Iowa State’s bars and floor teams.
In her four seasons at Iowa State, Maloney has coached a pair of All-Americans in Caitlin Brown and Michelle Shealy, a Big 12 Conference vault champion (Celine Paulus, 2012) and 11 gymnasts to All-Big 12 Championship honors. Maloney has helped guide the Cyclones to an NCAA Regional in each of her four seasons at ISU and three Big 12 runner-up finishes.
In 2012, Maloney coached Paulus to the Big 12 vault title with a 9.950 mark. Paulus’ score tied for the fourth-highest tally in Cyclone history on the apparatus and earned her Iowa State’s first-ever outright Big 12 vault title.
Maloney came to Iowa State after a stellar amateur career and a year as an assistant coach at New Hampshire.
Before getting into coaching, Maloney was a member of three (2001, 2003 and 2004) NCAA national-title-winning squads at UCLA and won two individual national titles (vault and beam) in 2005. The Pen Argyl, Pa., native was the first UCLA gymnast to score a perfect 10.0 score on all four events during her collegiate career. Maloney concluded her collegiate career as a nine-time All-America recipient. She placed second on bars at the NCAA national championships in 2004 and tied for the highest all-around score at the national team finals in 2004 with a 39.725.
In 2005, Maloney was the Pac-10 Conference champion in the all-around, vault, beam and floor en route to being named Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year. Maloney was the second gymnast in league history to earn all-conference honors on all four events and in the all-around. In addition to winning vault and beam national titles, Maloney placed second in the all-around at the 2005 national championships. She was the 2005 NCAA West Regional Gymnast of the Year after winning the vault, beam and floor titles. Maloney’s stellar 2005 season was capped when she was earned the Honda Award, given to the top collegiate female gymnast.
Prior to arriving at UCLA, Maloney was a member of the United States national team from 1994-2000. From 1998-2000 Maloney won four national championships (all-around, all-around, vault and floor), and was tabbed the 1998 USA Gymnastics Sportswoman of the Year. She would later win the gold medal on beam at the 1998 Goodwill Games.
After graduating from UCLA in 2005, Maloney spent time as a gymnastics instructor in New York and as a performer in Cirque du Soleil.
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