Scott Leech enters his third year at Rhode Island in 2021-22. In July of 2021, he was promoted to head strength and conditioning coach after initially joining the department as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in February of 2020.
With the Rams, Leech oversees football, women’s tennis and women’s track & field in addition to overseeing all areas of the strength & conditioning for the department. When he joined the staff, he was responsible for designing and implementing training programs for the baseball, volleyball, women's soccer and women's track & field teams.
Leech came to Rhode Island from Merrimack College, where he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach from August of 2015 through February of 2020. There he worked with the baseball, men’s basketball, football, women’s lacrosse and women's track programs. He assisted in program implementation for 24 Division I teams while also coordinate and overseeing the undergraduate internship program for the Strength and Conditioning department.
Before his time at Merrimack, Leech was a graduate assistant in strength and conditioning at Springfield College. Leech also interned with the Strength and Conditioning departments at both Missouri and Brown. He is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, is a level 2 practitioner in Reflexive Performance Reset and is CPR/AED/First Aid certified by the American Red Cross.
Leech earned his bachelor's degree in Applied Exercise Science: Sport Performance from Springfield College in 2013. He added a master's degree in Exercise Science and Sports Studies from Springfield College in 2015 and began work on a master's degree in Data Science from Merrimack in 2019.
A football player at Springfield College, Leech was a team captain as a senior. He eatrned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors and was a member of the National Football Foundation Honor Society.
- Updated 7/28/2021
