“I don’t think too often you get to hear from two head coaches at once. That’s probably a new thing,” Kate Malveaux joked as she took the podium after her husband addressed the media at Tuesday’s introductory press conference at Auburn’s Woltosz Football Performance Center.
While different, a husband-and-wife co-head coach arrangement isn’t unheard of.
At Tennessee, where the Malveauxs recently served as assistant coaches, Ralph and Karen Weekly did it — successfully — for two decades.
Despite coming to Auburn with the blueprint in hand, there were still plenty of questions about how the co-head coach distinctions would shake out once the cleats hit the dirt of Auburn’s Jane B. Moore Field next softball season.
”Whenever you’re talking about on-field responsibilities, a lot of the conversations have been had before,” Kate Malveaux assured.
Chris Malveaux comes to Auburn after having spent three seasons as an assistant with the Lady Vols. Prior to his time in Knoxville, Chris Malveaux served a similar role at Missouri for three years.
Along the way, Malveaux earned the reputation of being a great offensive mind.
In 2023, Malveaux had a hand in coaching the SEC’s highest-scoring offense as the Lady Vols averaged 6.87 runs per game, which ranked third nationally.
“That’s his claim to fame – building offenses,” Kate Malveaux said of her husband.
“I’m going to hopefully take some of that responsibility that goes onto one person off so that he can stay in that offensive role because we all know that sometimes you’ve gotta give a little bit in these roles to be able to manage an entire team and not just an offense,” Kate Malveaux said./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25193578/CAL_4305.jpg)
“Obviously there will be times that he’s going to have to make decisions without consulting me and I’ll talk to him about those at home,” Kate Malveaux laughed. “And that is fine and I’ll get over it.”
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