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“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 decade

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 the 2024 season, Malveaux helped lead Tennessee’s lineup to impressive hitting numbers as the Lady Vols posted an SEC-best 1.50 home runs per game and ended the season with 84 total home runs — the third-most in Tennessee history.

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.

Meanwhile, like her husband, Kate Malveaux was also an assistant coach on Tennessee’s staff in 2024, but primarily coached the program’s catchers and baserunners.

“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.Several Auburn commits will get key face-time with Gus Malzahn & staff  during weekend official visits - al.com

“Chris hit on it: What he is, may not be my strength and my strengths may not be his. Every head coach is going to have flaws… every single one of them. You don’t get have those flaws because you get both and I think that’s what makes this really unique. We’re going to divide the duties, but we’re going to make sure that he can be in the cages to help run this offense.”
When the Tigers are competing between the chalked lines, Chris Malveaux will serve as the “speaking, acting head coach,” Kate Malveaux says.

“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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