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Jeremy Leak was named assistant softball coach at FIU in September of 2019. He will be working with hitters and pitchers. During his first season with the Panthers, FIU posted an 8-9 record as the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 outbreak. FIU picked up wins over Power Five foes California and Syracuse along with Ivy League Dartmouth. 

Prior to FIU, Leak was an assistant coach at Alabama State where he helped lead ASU to five consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championship games. The Lady Hornets have won a pair of those games, including winning the 2019 championship which led them to th Tuscaloosa Regional. 

Leak also helped coach the Lady Hornets 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) and home runs (38). 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.

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 now resides in Miami and has two children, Baylor Michael and Ella Grace.