Mallory Mulzer enters her second season at Bradley as an assistant coach for distance runners. She joined the Braves prior to the 2024-25 season after stops at Florida State University and Vanderbilt University as an assistant coach.
Mulzer's first season on the Hilltop was a successful one, as she helped guide the Men's and Women's Cross Country teams to conference titles in November at the Missouri Valley Conference Championships in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Ten athletes earned All-MVC or All-MVC Honorable Mention recognition. The Women's and Men's teams finished sixth and seventh as a team, respectively, at the Midwest Regionals at Newman Golf Course, while Kaitlyn Sheppard earned All-Region honors. During the track & field season, she guided distance athletes to nine conference championships and seven program records. Mulzer helped mentor Jack Crull to a sixth-place finish in the 1,500m Final at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, helping him earn NCAA First-Team All-American honors -- the program's first since 1954.
In Mulzer’s first season at Vanderbilt, she guided the Vanderbilt women’s cross country to a seventh-place finish at the SEC Championships, its best conference finish in three seasons. During the 2024 track & field season, Mulzer guided a qualification for the NCAA East First Round in the 1,500 meters and athletes to break the school records in the 1,000 and 3,000 meters indoors and 5,000 meters outdoors. She helped coach student-athletes to achieve a third place finish in the distance medley relay at the SEC Indoor Championships. With Mulzer’s guidance, scorers at the Indoor and Outdoor SEC Championships in the 3,000m, 1500m, and 10,000-meter races.
Before being hired at Vanderbilt, Mulzer served as an operations assistant at Florida State University where she played a large role in the Seminoles’ recruiting efforts, signing a cohort of freshman and transfer student-athletes. With Mulzer’s guidance, the Florida State women’s track and field team earned a top-four finish at the ACC Outdoor Championships. Mulzer assisted in coaching an All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 5000m.
As a student-athlete, Mulzer competed at Indiana for five years and at Ohio State for one year as a graduate student. She was a part of the Big Ten Championship team at Ohio State in 2022. While competing for the Hoosiers, she scored multiple times at the Big Ten Championships and advanced to the 2019 NCAA East Regional in the 800 meters.Â
Mulzer earned a bachelor’s in public health from Indiana University in 2021 and a master’s certificate in assistive and rehabilitative technology from Ohio State University in 2022.
