NDSU

2014 SEASON (SENIOR): First team All-Summit League selection as a catcher...Selected to The Summit League Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll and The Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence...Hit .256 with 34 hits in 133 at bats...Had five doubles and 16 RBI to go along with 21 runs scored...Went 2-for-2 with two RBI and two doubles against Winnipeg May 10...Was 2-for-4 with three RBI against Western Illinois in The Summit League tournament championship game May 24...Drew 15 walks...Recorded eight multi-hit games...Compiled an on base percentage of .340 with a slugging percentage of .293...2013 SEASON (JUNIOR): Played in 46 of 53 games including 45 starts at catcher...Hit .241 wit eight doubles, one home run and 10 RBIs...Threw out 15 of 48 base stealers...Had a six-game hitting streak in February and hit safely in all four games of the Summit League tournament to end the year....Homered, doubled in the tying run, and scored the go-ahead run in a 9-6 win at Southeast Missouri State...Went 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles in a win over Yale...Named to the Summit League Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll and Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence...2012 SEASON (SOPHOMORE): Hit .217 with one double and 10 RBIs in 33 games...Made 12 starts at catcher and 11 as designated hitter...Four multi-hit games...JUNIOR COLLEGE: Played the 2011 season at Walla Walla Community College in Washington...Played catcher and outfield...Hit .380 with five extra-base hits and 14 RBIs in 24 games...Team went 30-16...HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated in 2010 from Lakewood High School in Marysville, Wash...Three-year letterman...Team MVP, all-league first team, and all-state...MVP of the Washington all-state game...Also participated in basketball and was a three-year band letterwinner playing the drums...PERSONAL: Son of Dale and Laurel Leach...Father was also his high school principal...Has an older brother, James, and sister, Jacque...Majoring in mechanical engineering...Went 3-for-11 in three games for the Cowlitz Black Bears of the West Coast League...Hit a game-tying home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth against the Klamath Falls Gems in his final at-bat before an eventual 11-inning victory.