Leo Kalinowski is entering his seventh season and continues to build a successful program as the Madison College softball head coach. Kalinowski possesses a 120-142 (.458) record in six seasons at the helm.
Under the direction of Kalinowski, the WolfPack has vastly improved to become one of the stronger softball programs in the region and risen to new heights. Not only has the program shifted from NJCAA Division III competition into Division II in 2015, but Kalinowski also turned a winless program in 2010 into a team that has set new school records for wins in each of the last three years (2014 - 22 wins; 2015 - 33 wins; 2016 - 36 wins).
Playing in the ultra competitive North Central Community College Conference (N4C), the WolfPack have finished second in the standings each of the last two years and have not been lower than third in five years.
Besides setting new win records, his teams have shattered team and individual school records, rewriting the record books for hitting, pitching, and fielding. During his tenure, the WolfPack had its first player in school history receive a softball scholarship to a four-year school.
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Prior to softball, Kalinowski put Madison College baseball on the map in the mid-1990's by winning three consecutive NJCAA Division III national titles from 1995-97. Kalinowski earned three NJCAA National Coach of the Year awards and seven Region XIIIÂ Coach of the Year awards while his team tallied an incredible 414-169-3 (.706) record in twelve seasons. His coaching record currently ranks as the highest winning percentage of any baseball coach in Madison College history.
In all, his teams claimed twelve conference, eleven state, and seven NJCAA region championship titles. Kalinowski coached twelve all-Americans, six major league draftees, and placed numerous athletes in top NCAA baseball colleges across the country.
In 2003 Kalinowski retired from coaching baseball at Madison College and moved to North Carolina. However, he soon returned to rejoin the coaching staff as an assistant in the fall of 2009. He helped return the team to the NJCAA National Tournament in 2010 before shifting to the softball diamond as the new head coach.
Kalinowski was inducted into the
Madison College Hall of Fame in 2007.
In addition to softball, Kalinowski also serves as the Athletic Academic Advisor for Madison College student-athletes.
Coach Kalinowski graduated from the University of Massachusetts- Amherst and was a 3 year letter winner for the Minuteman baseball team. He lives in Stoughton, Wisconsin, and has two children, Kennedy and Connor.
