Hall of Fame
Moses Sherman, a 1998 graduate of Malone (Psychology), was a four-year letterman on the Pioneer football team. He is also a 1993 graduate of Urbana High School.
Sherman, who played at the nose tackle position, was a member of the first-ever Malone football team as a freshman in the fall of 1993 and quickly became one of the squad’s dominant defensive players. After aiding the Malone program through the growing pains of that first season, he helped lift the team to records of 7-2, 10-1-1 and 8-2 in the following three years, respectively. During his four years, the Pioneers won the Mid-States Football Association Mideast League title in both 1995 and 1996 (three-way tie that year). In only its third year of intercollegiate football (1995), Malone qualified for the NAIA playoffs, an extremely rare feat for a third-year program. Sherman was a three-time MSFA First Team selection and, as a junior, earned the NAIA Second Team All-America honor.Â
As a senior, he claimed the NAIA First Team All-America accolade, becoming the first in the program to pocket the First Team award. He is one of only six Malone football players to have earned the NAIA All-America honor and, of those six, is one of just three to have earned the honor twice. In addition, he is one of only three First Team NAIA All-Americans in the history of the program. Sherman ranks second in career sacks at Malone with 30.5 and he is tops all-time for the program in career blocked kicks with 13. He still ranks third all-time for tackles in a single game with 20 and amassed 322 total tackles during his career.
Sherman is the Branch Director of Sales for First Preferred Mortgage Company (Michigan). He and his wife, Heather, and their two sons, Brock (6) and Brody (1), reside in Copley.
