Hall of Fame
Tom Kaloupek not only played two sports at Coe - lettering for three years in football and four in baseball - he was elected captain by his teammates in both sports his senior year. On the gridiron, Tom was a three-time all-conference running back. He helped lead the team to a conference co-championship his senior year, when the Kohawks made their first NCAA Division III playoff appearance. He graduated as Coe's career leader for rushing touchdowns with 24. Tom is now eighth on that list. A school record at the time, he 1s now one of 11 running backs in Coe history with 400 or more career carries. With a then-single season record 183 rushing attempts in 1985, he 1s the last representative of the 80s in that category in the Coe record book On the baseball diamond. Tom was an outfielder with a .355 batting average which still stands eighth on Coe's career list. A four-year letterwinner, he was second-team all-Midwest Conference as a junior. After receiving his bachelor's in business administration, Tom worked at Quaker Oats for 18 years before joining OB GYIN & Associates in Cedar Rapids as practice administrator in 2004. A member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Coe, Tom continues to serve on the TKE Board. The Grinnell, lowa in North Liberty with his Kohawk wife Sandy O'Hara Kaloupek '87. They have two adult children
