CASEY MALONE
Event: Discus
Height: 6-8
Weight: 240
PR: 66.58m/218-5 (2002)
Born: April 6, 1977, Wheatridge, Colorado
Current Residence: Ft. Collins, Colo.
High School: Arvada West HS (Colo.) 95
College: Colorado State University 00
Coach: Brian Bedard
Agent: John Nubani
Club: Nike

Career Highlights: 1998 NCAA Outdoor champion; 1996 world junior champion; 1996 USA junior champion

A young thrower who has ranked as high as fourth in the U.S. and has titles on the NCAA, U.S. junior and world junior levels, Malone made the U.S. team for the 2003 World Outdoor Championships by having met the IAAF A standard of 64.40 meters/211-13. Malone, who was ninth at the 2003 USA Championships, threw 66.58m/218-5 in 2002 to surpass the A standardIn 1999, Malone redshirted what would have been his senior year at Colorado State in order to try to put in the training necessary to make the U.S. Olympic Team. He qualified for the 2000 Olympic Trials, where he placed 9th Malone was a four-time All-American and the 1998 NCAA Champion in the discus for coach Brian Bedard while at Colorado Statewas also the 1996 USA junior national champion and world junior champion; he took sixth at the 1998 Goodwill Games. Malone is in his third season as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado, working with the mens and womens throwers...is the lone NCAA Champion on the Buffalo coaching staff, and brings considerable success to the Colorado throwing program. earned a bachelors degree in fine arts, concentrating in painting.

2003: 9th at USA Champs (59.49m/195-02) 10th in qualifying at World Outdoors (61.50m/201-9)1st at Ft. Collins (64.43m/211-5)best of 64.43/211-5.
2002: 1st at Greeley (66.58m/218.5)5th at USA Championshipsranked #4 in USbest of 66.58m/218-5.
2001: 10th at USA Championshipsranked #9 in USbest of 60.96m/200-0.
2000: 1st at Mountain West Invitational5th at NCAA Outdoors9th at Olympic Trialsranked #7 in USbest of 64.50m/211-6.
1999: 6th at USA Championshipsranked #6 in USbest of 61.50m/201-9.
1998: 1st at WAC1st at NCAA Outdoors5th at USA Championshipsranked #6 in USbest of 61.40m/201-5.
1997: 3rd at WAC11th at NCAA Outdoors8th at USA Championshipsbest of 58.46m/191-9.
1996: 1st at WAC5th at NCAA Outdoors1st at Junior Championships1st at World Juniorsbest of 59.48m/195-2.

9/25/03