St. Mary’s hires Archie Malloy to head football program

COLORADO SPRINGS — The St. Mary’s Pirates didn’t let their football coaching vacancy last for long.

Just over three weeks after the Colorado Springs Gazette reported that Nic Olney resigned from the job, St. Mary’s athletic director Dennis Vigil announced on Twitter that he hired Archie Malloy to take over the Class 2A program.

Vigil also independently verified the hire to CHSAANow.com.

“It was a case of perfect timing,” Vigil said. “I knew Archie from when I was an (assistant principal) at Mitchell and so I called him and asked if he was interested to put his name in the ring. The committee was impressed with him and so we offered him the job and he accepted this morning. Very excited to have him in the fold.”

Malloy comes to St. Mary’s after serving as the head coach at Mitchell, a 3A team, for 13 seasons. He resigned from Mitchell in December. Since 2004, his teams were 34-76.

Malloy takes over a St. Mary’s program that went 7-3 last season and lost to Montezuma-Cortez in the first round of the 2A playoffs.

This hire has been reflected in our list of offseason coaching changes.