Madison College Wolfpack

Leo Kalinowski is entering his 15th season as the Madison College softball head coach after taking over the program prior to the 2011 season. Kalinowski needed just four seasons to become the program's all-time leader in coaching wins. He has also served as a Madison College Athletics Academic Advisor since 2011, aiding student-athletes through the academic rigors of Madison College and preparing them for their futures. Kalinowski was inducted into the Madison College Hall of Fame in 2007.

Under the direction of Kalinowski, the WolfPack has vastly improved to become one of the stronger softball programs in the region, while also rising 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 set new school records for wins in five straight years (2014 - 22 wins; 2015 - 33 wins; 2016 - 36 wins; 2017 - 37 wins; 2018 - 52 wins). In 2017, the WolfPack made their first-ever appearance in the Region 4 Division II Championship Game, and in 2018, they won the program's first Region 4 Division II District B Championship and made their first-ever NJCAA Division II National Tournament appearance. That effort was duplicated in 2019 and 2021. Kalinowski has been named Region 4 Coach of the Year three times, and N4C Coach of the Year once.

Madison College also matched Rock Valley College with a 16-2 record atop the North Central Community College Conference standings in 2018, but lost the league crown on a tiebreaker. Prior to that in the ultra competitive N4C, the WolfPack had finished second in the standings each of the previous three years, and has not been lower than third in ten 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, while also coaching the first player to be named N4C Most Valuable Player, Region 4 Player of the Year, and NJCAA All-American. During his tenure, Kalinowski has coached 41 all-conference players, 36 all-region honorees, and four All-Americans.
 
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 XIII 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.

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.