Career
In 2005 she represented Scotland at the World Championships on home soil at Braehead. In 2008, Malone was diagnosed with breast cancer, before operations and treatment she skipped her teams to victory in both Scottish and British Wheelchair Curling Championships. This serious illness and the intensive treatment of it meant she missed the 2008 and 2009 World Championships.
With the goal of competing at the Vancouver Paralympic Games 2010, Malone re-entered an exercise regime successfully balancing training with her treatment to ensure she was eligible for selection.
In 2010, Malone was again part of Great Britain"s Paralympic wheelchair curling team that competed and finished 6th at the Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. The team, also featured Aileen Neilson, Michael McCreadie, Tom Killin and Jim Sellar and was coached by Tom Pendreigh.
In 2011, Malone was again selected as lead player for Scotland at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic. In 2012, she competed in her fifth World Wheelchair Curling Championship, representing Scotland in Chuncheon City, South of Korea.
She is part of the British wheelchair curling performance squad coached by Tony Zummack that is currently training towards the 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Sochi, Russia and the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi Russia.
Malone is also an accrediting technical coach. Malone is a Patron of Ayrshire Sportsability, a charity that through sport supports and inspires young people with a disability.
