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COACHING BIOGRAPHIES<br />
Head Coach Lance Leipold<br />
In four years of directing Warhawk football Lance Leipold has compiled a<br />
70-3 mark. The wins include four consecutive <strong>Wisconsin</strong> Intercollegiate<br />
Athletic Conference championships, four trips <strong>to</strong> the NCAA III playoffs --- all<br />
ending in the Division III championship game, the Amos Alonzo Stagg<br />
Bowl. Three national title trophies have come back on the plane from<br />
Salem.<br />
Leipold directed UW-W <strong>to</strong> a 14-1 record in 2007, less than a year after he<br />
<strong>to</strong>ok over the reins from Bob Berezowitz, his coach during his playing days and the head coach<br />
when Leipold got his start in coaching. That first season produced eight first team allconference<br />
picks, six All-Americans, the national player of the year (Gagliardi Trophy) and the<br />
D3 Riming<strong>to</strong>n Trophy recipient. Leipold swept all of the Division III coach of the year honors.<br />
UW-W rolled <strong>to</strong> a 13-2 mark in 2008, all the way <strong>to</strong> a runnerup finish in D3. Along the way six<br />
<strong>Warhawks</strong> earned First Team All-WIAC recognition and six were accorded All-American honors,<br />
including the D3football.com Defensive Player of the Year. There was no way of knowing that<br />
the loss in the 2008 Stagg Bowl would be <strong>Whitewater</strong>’s last for a while – that “while,” a NCAA<br />
(all divisions) leading thirty game win streak, covered the next two seasons. The 2009<br />
campaign produced the school’s first 15-0 record, and another conference and national<br />
championship. Seven All-Americans included the Fred Mitchell Award winner (as the <strong>to</strong>p kicker<br />
in Division II/III). The run continued through 2010, fifteen wins taking the streak <strong>to</strong> thirty games<br />
without a loss. Six more All-Americans, including the D3 Offensive Player of the Year helped<br />
Leipold collect another Coach of the Year honor.<br />
Leipold, a quarterback for the <strong>Warhawks</strong> in the mid-1980’s and former Warhawk assistant<br />
coach, was associate head coach and offensive coordina<strong>to</strong>r for the University of Nebraska-<br />
Omaha since 2004. He returned <strong>to</strong> head the UW-W football program in January 2007.<br />
Leipold, out of Jefferson, played four years for the <strong>Warhawks</strong> (1983-1986). The 1984 team won<br />
the WIAC title, and the teams he played on were a combined 20-10-2.<br />
He is still second all-time in the Warhawk record books for career pass attempts (647), third in<br />
yards (4,277), fifth in completions (303), and tied for ninth with 27 <strong>to</strong>uchdowns.<br />
He is also among the <strong>to</strong>p ten in those same categories in the UW-W records for a single<br />
season, all in his junior year in 1985. In a game against UW-River Falls in 1985 Leipold<br />
completed 37-57 for 494 yards -- among the <strong>to</strong>p 20 individual games in WIAC his<strong>to</strong>ry. He was<br />
the team MVP in 1986, and was elected <strong>to</strong> the UW-W Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.<br />
Leipold's coaching career began where he played, at UW-W. He coached quarterbacks in 1987<br />
and wide receivers in 1988, helping both teams win WIAC (then WSUC) championships. After<br />
one year at Doane College in Nebraska, he returned <strong>to</strong> UW-W in 1990 <strong>to</strong> coach and work on a<br />
master's degree. He helped the <strong>Warhawks</strong> win another WIAC title while serving as Berezowitz's<br />
offensive coordina<strong>to</strong>r. Leipold moved on <strong>to</strong> the University of <strong>Wisconsin</strong>-Madison for the 1991,<br />
'92 and '93 seasons, serving as a graduate assistant all three years, working with the offense.<br />
The 1993 Badgers won the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, going 10-1-1. His first stint at Division II<br />
Nebraska-Omaha covered 1994-2000, where he was part of a staff that turned UNO from a 1-<br />
10 team (1994) <strong>to</strong> North Central Conference champions in 1996, 1998 and 2000. He was<br />
UNO's offensive coordina<strong>to</strong>r in 2000. He moved <strong>to</strong> the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001,<br />
serving as an administrative assistant the same year Cornhuskers played in the national<br />
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