Jeremy Leak will be entering his sixth season at Alabama State University for the 2019-2020 academic year as an assistant softball coach / pitching coach.
Leak has helped lead Alabama State to five consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championship games since arriving on campus. The Lady Hornets have won a pair of those games, including winning the 2019 championship and advancing to the Tuscaloosa Regional.
In 2016, Leak's pitching expertise led the Lady Hornets to the second best marks in the conference in ERA (4.51) and strikeouts (225).
Leak also helped coach Alabama State to the best all-around team rankings in the conference as ASU ranked first in the SWAC in team batting average (.321), runs scored (296), hits (482), doubles (92), home runs (38), in turning double plays (21) and second in triples (12), stolen bases (50), and in fielding (.951 fielding percentage).
Alabama State's 28 wins were the third highest single season amount of wins in the program, and the team led the SWAC with six All-Conference selections and two large award winners.
ASU won its first softball SWAC Championship by topping the defending SWAC Champions Texas Southern 18-8 at the Shea Brothers Softball Complex in Irondale, AL on May 14, 2016. In doing so, the Lady Hornets clinched its first NCAA Tournament berth.
Among the All-Conference award winners that coach Leak coached were SWAC Pitcher of the Year and First Team pitcher selection Maddie Phelps, Co-Freshman of the Year Charlene Castro, All-SWAC Tournament MVP Kendall Core, First Team Second Baseman selection Laura Aguilar, First Team catcher selection Aleesa Yanez, Second Team outfielder selection Jenna Mae Thorne, and Second Team pitcher selection Melissa Christmann.
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 10th 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.
