Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame
Athlete 1992 - 1996
It is fair to say that Staci (Malin) Lindsay, class of 1996, put Linfield swimming on the map.
Linfield's pool was only four years old when Malin arrived on campus from Pleasant Hill High School in California in September 1992. The Wildcats had never had a national women's champion.
Malin changed that quickly. She won five NAIA national championships in the breaststroke, setting an NAIA national meet record in the 100 breaststroke in 1993, as a freshman -- and breaking it two years later.
She won seven Northwest Conference championships (setting meet records in the 100 and 200 breaststroke) and led Linfield to the 1993 conference team championship.
Her school records of 30.29 seconds in the 50-yard breaststroke, 1 minute, 5.38 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke, and 2:23.61 in the 200-yard breaststroke, all set in the 1994-95 or 1995-96 seasons, still stand more than a decade later.
So do the 200- and 400-yard medley relay school records that she was instrumental in helping set. In fact, Malin contributed to eight of the fastest 10 200 medley relay marks and seven of the top-10 400 medley relay marks in Linfield history.
She was chosen Linfield's Female Athlete of the Year in 1994-95 and 1995-96.
Malin won NAIA All-American recognition eight times in individual events and eights times in relay events, based on reaching the finals at the national championships.
Malin was an All-American student as well. She won NAIA academic honors three years (instead of the usual maximum of two) and graduated magna cum laude with a 3.83 grade point average, a bachelor's degree with a major in exercise science and a minor in English.
After earning her master's from Cal State-East Bay in sports psychology and motor development, she coached swimming for eight years.
Malin Lindsay resides in Concord, Calif., with her husband, Mark Lindsay, two daughters, Emma, 5, and Rebecca, 3, and son Matthew, born in June 2006.
