Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide: Full Color Edition

Cris Maloney is the author of Field Hockey: Understanding the Game, JUMP IN! A Beginner’s Guide To Field Hockey Umpiring, Middle School Field Hockey Rules, and Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide. Mr. Maloney began playing field hockey while in college, where he became a nationally certified umpire in 1977, after success as a Track & Field at Moorestown High School, Moorestown, NJ (he was a 1975 All American). In the 1980s, Maloney founded New Jersey’s Garden State Games Field Hockey Event, served as an assistant coach to two undefeated, gold medal field hockey teams in United States Olympic Committee national sports festivals, attended an Olympic Solidarity Coaching seminar offered by the International Olympic Committee where he presented his paper titled Field Hockey: The First 30-Minutes, and began doing play-by-play and color announcing at international field hockey games. Later he became a nationally certified Level II Umpire Coach. Always an innovator, in 2003 Maloney was the first field hockey assigner to use web-based technology to assign umpires to field hockey games. He was the first, in 2005, to recommend, use, and supervise the use of walkie-talkies during high school games. In 2013 he organized the first Hockey5s league in the USA. In 2014, he created a version of field hockey he calls Super6s – which is a combination of the indoor and outdoor games that favors simplified rules and continuous action that can be played by children and adults. Maloney is the owner of UmpireHockey.com, and produces on online rules course for players, coaches, and umpires. Maloney runs programs to introduce field hockey to boys and girls in central New Jersey.