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Leipold coached the Warhawks to a 13-2 record in 2008 and a fourth consecutive Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title. Leipold also guided the Warhawks to their fourth consecutive national championship appearance. The Warhawks finished 2008 as Division III runner-up after a 2007 national championship. Leipold ’s impressive resume is capped off with a record of 27-3 in his first two seasons as the Warhawk ’s head coach. The 2008 season also produced six All-Americans with linebacker Jace Rindahl taking defensive player of the year honors. Leipold was also named the Division III coach of the year. Leipold directed UW-Whitewater to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III championship, winning the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in Salem, Virginia, in December 2007, just eleven months after his hiring. The 2007 Warhawks went 14-1, and were undefeated in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Warhawks' 2007 season helped earn Leipold national Division III coach of the year honors from the American Football Coaches Association, D3football.com, Schutt Sports, and Fieldturf Incorporated. That 2007 season included eight first team all-conference picks, six All-Americans, the national Division III player of the year (Gagliardi Trophy) and the Division III Rimington Trophy recipient. Leipold, a quarterback for the Warhawks in the mid-1980 ’s and former Warhawk assistant coach, was associate head coach and offensive coordinator for the University of Nebraska-Omaha since 2004 before returning to head the UW-W football program in January 2007. Leipold, of Jefferson, played four years for the Warhawks (1983-1986). The 1984 team won the WIAC title, and the teams he played on were a combined 20-10-2. He is still second all-time in the Warhawk record books for career pass attempts (647), third in yards (4277), fifth in completions (303), and tied for ninth with 27 touchdowns. He is also among the top 10 in those same categories in the UW-W records for a single season, all in his junior year in 1985. In a game against UW-River Falls in 1985 Leipold completed 37-57 for 494 yards -- all among the top 20 individual games in WIAC history. He was the team MVP in 1986, and was elected to the UW-W Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. Leipold's coaching career began where he played, at UW-W. He coached quarterbacks in 1987 and wide receivers in 1988, helping both teams win WIAC (then WSUC) championships. After one year at Doane College in Nebraska, he returned to UW-W in 1990 to coach and work on a master's degree. He helped the Warhawks win another WIAC title while serving as Berezowitz's offensive coordinator. Leipold moved on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the 1991, '92 and '93 seasons, serving as a graduate assistant all three years, he worked with the offense. The 1993 Badgers won the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, going 10-1-1. His first stint at Division II Nebraska-Omaha covered 1994-2000, where he was part of a staff that turned UNO from a 1-10 team (1994) to North Central Conference champions in 1996, 1998 and 2000. He was UNO's offensive coordinator in 2000.

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