Peter Tegen (2013) | UW Athletic Hall of Fame

UW Athletic Hall of Fame

Peter Tegen

Class
Induction

2013
Sport(s)

Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field

Coached more Big Ten champions, national champions and All-Americans than any coach in UW history
Coached the Badgers to the 1984 and 1985 NCAA Cross Country titles; team also finished second in 1986
Coached five NCAA runner-up teams in indoor and outdoor track (one at Stanford)
Coached teams to 24 Top-10 national finishes in cross country and 22 top-10 national finishes in track; teams scored in 24 of 25 national indoor meets and 29 of 30 national outdoor meets
Coached 44 national champions in track and cross country (one at Stanford)
Coached 305 All-America honors (56 at Stanford)
Coached his teams to a Big Ten record 39 conference championships - 15 in cross country and 24 in indoor and outdoor track (plus 5 Pac-10 championships)
Wisconsin won a record six-consecutive Big Ten cross country titles from 1984-88 and again from 1995-2000
Coached 259 individual conference champions in track and cross country (23 at Pac-10)
Coached Olympians Cindy Bremser (1984), Suzy Favor Hamilton (1992, 1996 and 2000) and Kathy Butler (1996 and 2004)
Coached ten athletes who competed in World Championships/ World University Games
Coached two collegiate record holders
His athletes had 336 academic all-conference honors (288 Big Ten, 48 Pac-10)
Ten athletes earned Academic All-America honors (two at Stanford)
Five-time National Cross Country Coach of the Year (three times at Stanford)
First women's track coach to be inducted into the Drake Relays Hall of Fame
Big Ten Coach of the Year in track and cross country 20 times (five times at Pac-10)
Regional Cross Country Coach of the Year nine times (three times at Stanford)
Coached at Stanford University from 2005-08, guiding the Cardinal women to three straight NCAA Cross Country Championships
Coached US National Women's Cross Country teams at World Championships in 1997 (Turin, Italy) and in 2009 (Amman, Jordan)
U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) named the Division I National Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year honor for him in 2006