MCBAIN — McBain High School’s football coach Pat Maloney has been named the Detroit Lions’ Coach of the Week.
Maloney is in his 23rd season coaching high school football and 10th season as head coach at McBain, compiling a 62-35 (63.9%) record.
Each week throughout the 2024 high school football regular season, one coach that best demonstrates success on and off the field, develops players’ character, discipline and football skill in addition to emphasizing player health and safety in their program, will be recognized for their commitment to the team, school and community. The winner is selected by a panel of high school football media members.
This season’s program will award $12,000 to aid in developing and promoting high school football in the state of Michigan, thanks to contributions from the Detroit Lions and the NFL Foundation.
Maloney led the Ramblers to the playoffs in 8 of his 9 full seasons, reaching the regional finals in 2015 and 2023.
In a Head Coach Hangout interview with Executive Director of Football Education with Lions Football Chris Fritzsching, Maloney learned of the recognition and discussed the week three victory over Beal City, the importance of community service to the McBain student-athletes and community and what McBain means to him.
“It’s beautiful, we’ve got farm country,” Maloney said. “Sunrise to sunset, it’s a beautiful place to grow up and to live. We have a great community in which our team is made up of a band of brothers who have grown up with each other from kindergarten through 12th grade. Our community is phenomenal, and we were able to pass a bond that got us a new scoreboard, a new track and things that support us. That type of community where families are strong, it makes our school strong and we have a strong administrative team all the way through to our custodians.”
Maloney spent 10 years as head coach at Rudyard High School (2002-11) and three years as an assistant coach at Sault Area High School before coming back to McBain in 2015, where he is a McBain alumnus and current math teacher at McBain Rural Agricultural School/High School.
Each winning coach during the regular season will receive a $1,000 donation to his school’s football program. After the 2024 Michigan High School Football season, the Lions will also select the High School Football Coach of the Year.
This season’s Coach of the Year will receive a $3,000 donation to his school’s football program. All winners will receive a certificate signed by Lions’ head coach Dan Campbell and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Currently in its’ 28th year, the Detroit Lions High School Coach of the Week program has awarded $503,000 to high school football programs throughout the state of Michigan.
