Alabama State University Athletics

Jeremy Leak will be entering his second season at Alabama State University for the 2015-2016 academic year as an assistant softball coach.

Leak was instrumental in helping the Lady Hornets sport the best all-around offense in the SWAC as the team held league-best marks in batting average (.321), slugging percentage (.465), on-base percentage (.391), runs scored (272), hits (471), RBI (247), doubles (79), triples (22), home runs (30), total bases (684), and hits by pitch (43).

Under his watch, Chelsea King was the recipient of three awards including Pitcher of the Year, Freshman of the Year and All-SWAC First Team for pitcher.

Junior Carly Evans was also a big winner, garnering both the Newcomer of the Year award and an All-SWAC First Team selection at first base. 

Joining King and Evans on the All-SWAC First Team were outfielders Valerie Centeno and Jenna Mae Thorne.

Junior Aleesa Yanez scooped up an All-SWAC Second Team nod at the catcher position.

Prior to ASU, Leak helped develop All-American hitters and the 2013-2014 NAIA Pitcher of the Year as a volunteer coach with Auburn University at Montgomery.

In December 2014, Leak was a part of the coaching staff at AUM that was recognized with the 2014 National Fast Pitch Softball Association Coaching Staff of the Year award. 

Leak was a private pitching and hitting instructor from 2011-2014.  His role on the team will vary from assisting with infielders, pitchers, hitters and conditioning. 

As a 14-year serviceman in the United States Army, Leak was on the softball Army Armed Forces Team and the All-Army Team.

Leak was an instrumental part of three deployments in Iraq from 2003-2004 and 2008-2009 as well as in Afghanistan from 2010-2011, where he was awarded countless awards and accommodations for combat and humanitarian missions as a non-commissioned officer.

He was a three-year letterman for varsity baseball at Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., and later was a pitcher in the ASA men’s fast pitch league for six years. 

Leak also represented the 10^th MTN Division of the USSSA travel softball league for four years. 

A native of Ramer, Alabama, Leak has two children: Baylor Michael and Ella Grace.