Former Juda and UW-La Crosse athlete and Baraboo High School track coach for 39 years, Tom Leaver, has been named to the Baraboo High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Leaver will be formally inducted into the Baraboo Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 26 at the Baraboo Country Club. A light dinner and reception begins at 6 p.m., with the induction ceremony starting at 7 p.m. Tickets to the ceremony are $20 in advance, and available at https://tinyurl.com/4e6tyzsv Tickets can also be purchased at the door.

During Leaver’s outstanding career, he shepherded 17 teams to conference championships, coached 39 individual and relay teams to school records and sent more than 50 individuals and relay teams to the WIAA State Track & Field Championships. Additionally, Coach Leaver saw countless athletes earn medalist honors at the South Central Conference and Badger Conference meets.

A 1976 graduate of Juda High School, Leaver was an outstanding athlete in his own right, earning 10 letters in football, basketball and track & field. Tom went on to a highly successful career in track & field at UW-La Crosse, where he was a member of the record 4x800 relay team and was team captain of La Crosse’s Indoor and Outdoor Wisconsin State College Conference champions in 1980.

Now retired, Tom and his wife, Dawn, live in Baraboo. They are the parents of three children.

The Baraboo High School Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 2013 to honor and celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams that have distinguished themselves at the highest levels of sport, thereby contributing to the promotion and development of athletics at Baraboo High School and the community. Candidates are eligible through four classifications: Outstanding athletes and exemplary coaches who have brought honor to BHS through outstanding civic achievements or post high school athletic careers or coaching.