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Joel Marchand, a 1986 graduate of Malone (Secondary Education), was a four-year letterman in both cross country and track & field at the College. A 1980 graduate of Fairless High School, Marchand was a five-time state champion in cross country (two) and track & field (three). As a junior, he broke the school’s two-mile record and cross country mark and then, as a senior, eclipsed both marks again and also established a new one-mile record. While at Malone, he was a six-time NAIA All-American having earned three in cross country and three in track, which included a pair of indoor two-miles and an indoor three-mile individual national title.
Marchand’s individual national championship in the spring of 1981 marked just the second-ever NAIA individual national title in Malone College history after Ken Hyland became the College’s first individual national champion in men’s golf in 1969. In cross country, Marchand was named Malone’s top runner as a freshman and a sophomore and led Malone to an NAIA national runner-up finish and a fourth-place finish, respectively, for those two seasons. In addition, Marchand also held the Malone record time for both cross country and the five-mile.
Marchand lives in Navarre, Ohio and is employed by Stark MRDD. He and his wife, Kathy, have two children, Raelyn (3) and Brant (2).
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