Scott Leech

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. 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 coordinating 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.