New Co-Head Coaches for Aptos Track & Field Team
Aptos High School is excited to announce that Scott McConville and Mary Maleta will be the new co-head coaches of the Aptos Track & Field Team.
Currently assisting the cross-country team, Scott is a past head coach. He was the head Track & Field coach from 2011 until 2015, during which his teams won five SCCAL Team Championships, 35 individual SCCAL championships, and 6 individual CCS championships. Scott is an Aptos grad, and a former team captain and team MVP in Track & Field. He earned eight varsity letters at Aptos, won three SCCAL team championships, and was a multiple SCCAL and CCS medalist. After Aptos, Scott ran at UC Santa Barbara, where he was team captain and set the school record in the 1500 meters. In addition to coaching at Aptos HS, Scott is also the Race Director for the Wharf to Wharf Race.
Mary is a 2003 graduate of Soquel High School, where she was a seven-time SCCAL champion, multiple CCS medalist, three-time state-meet qualifier, and broke two school records. She is one of the most distinguished distance runners to ever come-out of Santa Cruz County. Mary was a scholarship student-athlete at UCLA before transferring to Cornell University, where she continued to run, and where she earned her B.A. in Psychology. Mary returned to the Central Coast, earned her M.A. in Education from UCSC, and was the head coach at Soquel for two years (before she had two children). She is currently the Activities Director at Aptos HS, and training for the California International Marathon.