University of Massachusets Athletics
Hall of Fame
Charles Leverone
- Induction:
- 2009
- Class:
- 1960
Charles Leverone became the only athlete in UMass history to earn letters in five sports: gymnastics, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, soccer, swimming & diving, competing between 1956 and 1960.
Additionally, Leverone competed in, but did not letter in cross country, lacrosse and tennis, and joins fellow UMass Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Fritz Ellert as the only UMass athletes to earn letters in as many as four sports.
Leverone had his career at UMass interrupted to serve in the US Army in the Korean Conflict.
At UMass, he won the Lojko Award his senior year (best three-sport athlete at UMass) in 1960. He was a two-time captain of the track & field team. He also captured the NEAAU Trampoline Championship in gymnastics.
Following graduation, Leverone coached cross country and track & field at the high school and college level for nearly 50 years and was named the Massachusetts State Coach of the Year several times and the Boston Globe Track Coach of the Year in 1995. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Leverone was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2009. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 82.
Additionally, Leverone competed in, but did not letter in cross country, lacrosse and tennis, and joins fellow UMass Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Fritz Ellert as the only UMass athletes to earn letters in as many as four sports.
Leverone had his career at UMass interrupted to serve in the US Army in the Korean Conflict.
At UMass, he won the Lojko Award his senior year (best three-sport athlete at UMass) in 1960. He was a two-time captain of the track & field team. He also captured the NEAAU Trampoline Championship in gymnastics.
Following graduation, Leverone coached cross country and track & field at the high school and college level for nearly 50 years and was named the Massachusetts State Coach of the Year several times and the Boston Globe Track Coach of the Year in 1995. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Leverone was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2009. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 82.
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