Augustana College Athletics

Dick Maloney enters 2025 coaching his 52nd season on both the collegiate and professional levels. To date, he has 529 games patrolling the sidelines, including 176 as a head coach. Maloney has been part of 14 college championship seasons, made even more impressive when he has coached two or more seasons, each college has won two or more championships.

The 2023 Augustana Defense earned high ranks in the CCIW, including a #2 ranking in both Defensive Pass Efficiency, (led by D3 All-American DB) Nick Harper’s 6 interceptions and in Team Interceptions - totaling 16. The Viking Defense earned a #3 ranking in both Rushing and Scoring Defenses. The 2023 Vikings’ D’ achieved high NCAA rankings in Team Interceptions, Rushing Defense and Defensive Efficiency. The 2023 squad earned an outstanding Turnover Margin of +18 resulted in Augustana earning a NCAA #7 national ranking (out of 238 teams).

Coach Maloney came to Augustana after five seasons as an assistant coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He served as the Engineers’ Defensive Coordinator as well as the team’s Recruiting Coordinator and was a part of Liberty League championship teams in 2015 and 2017.
 
In 2017, his defense ranked sixth in the nation with 23 interceptions, eighth with 32 takeaways and 25th in rushing defense at 95.9 yards per game. His 2016 unit led the Liberty League in defensive pass efficiency, interceptions and sacks and in 2015, the Engineers ranked in the top 20 nationally in pass defense, defensive pass efficiency, total defense, scoring defense and first downs allowed.
 
Prior to his time at RPI, Maloney spent 19 seasons as the head coach at the University of Chicago. He led the Maroons to four University Athletic Association championships and won 94 games, second-most in school history behind only Amos Alonzo Stagg. His 1995 and 2010 squads both finished 8-2, the most wins by the Maroons since they went 10-0 under Stagg in 1905.
 
From 1991-93, Maloney was Offensive Line Coach for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League. Ottawa qualified for the CFL playoffs all three years and Maloney twice mentored the league’s Offensive Lineman of the Year.
 
Maloney’s resume also includes a five-year stint as Offensive Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania, during which time the Quakers captured a pair of Ivy League championships; four years as Offensive Line Coach at Dartmouth, where he was part of two Ivy League titles as well; four years as Offensive Line Coach at Boston University, which yielded two Yankee Conference championships; and a season as Offensive Line Coach at Boston College. He also coached football and wrestling for a year each at Maryville College and the University at Albany.
 
Maloney graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston with a B.S. in elementary education and earned his master’s in education from the University at Albany.