2017 (Track): Cary won the weight throw at the 2017 G-MAC Indoor Track & Field Championships with a distance of 15.11 meters. He also set a career mark in the shot put (11.58 meters) during indoor season. At the 2017 G-MAC Outdoor Championships, Cary finished fifth in both the discus and hammer throw, with throws of 38.90 meters and 45.19 meters.
Austin Cary Named First Team Academic All-American (11/29/16)
2016: Cary started all nine games at defensive end, wrapping an outstanding four-year career for the Pioneers...Finished the season 47 total tackles (21 solo, 26 assists) including 11.0 tackles for loss...Recorded a team-high 5.0 sacks and a forced fumble...Tallied eight tackles and a sack in both week eight against Walsh (10/22/16) and week 10 against Kentucky Wesleyan (11/5/16)...Collected seven tackles, three tackles for loss, and two sacks against NCAA DI Robert Morris in week four (9/24/16)...Registered a sack and a forced fumble vs. Truman State (9/10/16)...Finished third in the G-MAC in sacks...Named G-MAC All-Conference...G-MAC All-Academic CoSIDA Academic All-District...CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American (first football player in Malone history)
2015: Cary played in all ten games while making nine starts at defensive end for the Pioneers...Totaled 28 tackles (14 solo, 14 assists)...Recorded 2.5 tackles for loss on the season, including a half sack against Lake Erie (10/24/2015)...Registered a season-high eight tackles vs. Wayne State (9/19/2015)...Named to the
GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team...Named CoSIDA Academic All-District
2014: Cary played in 11 games for the Pioneers… Finished 10
th on the team in total tackles (30), including 5.5 tackles for a loss… Had a season-high five tackles at Ohio Dominican University (9/6/14)… Lead the team in sacks (4.5)… Recorded two of those sacks at Urbana University (11/1/14)… Named to the All-GLIAC Honorable Mention Team... Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.
2013: Cary played in 10 games for the Pioneers… Tallied 21 tackles on the season… Had a season-high four tackles on two different occasions… Recorded his first career sack at Ashland (10/26/13).
Prior to Malone: received letters in football, wrestling and track and field…Third Team All-Ohio…two-time First Team All-MBC (Mid-Buckeye Conference) selection…MBC Defensive Player of the Year…First Team Mansfield News Journal and First Team Daily Record…two-time All-Ashland Times Gazette Team…Ashland Times Gazette Defensive Player of the Year…First Team All-District…NCOCA (North Central Ohio Coaches Association) Offensive Lineman of the Year…straight “A” student in high school…Student Council and National Honors Society member…winner of the George Eastman Young Leaders Award.
