UW-Whitewater’s Leipold Named AFCA NCAA Division III Coach of the Year
MADISON, Wis.--University of Wisconsin-Whitewater head coach Lance Leipold has been named 2011 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NCAA Division III Coach of the Year. The announcement was made Tuesday at the AFCA convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Leipold directed the Warhawks to a 15-0 mark in 2011. Along the way, UW-Whitewater won its record-setting seventh straight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title, advanced through four rounds of playoffs to reach the NCAA III championship game (the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl), and won the school's third consecutive national title.
UW-Whitewater has advanced to the Stagg Bowl all five seasons under Leipold, with the Warhawks claiming the national crown four times. UW-Whitewater owns the longest win streak in college football --- at any level, at 45 consecutive wins. That string is the fifth longest in the history of NCAA football, again at any level. UW-Whitewater will enter the 2012 campaign just two wins short of number four on the list, accumulated by the University of Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson from 1953 to 1957.
Leipold also claimed the AFCA coaching prize in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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