Women's Lacrosse

Brandie Leach was hired by the Southwestern Athletic Department in the Spring of 2024 as the assistant women's lacrosse coach for the Pirate program. Leach comes to Southwestern with over twenty years of coaching experience. 

Leach arrives at Southwestern after being the head coach of the women's lacrosse program at Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas. Prior to that, she coached at Coppell High School in Dallas, Texas, serving as the varsity and junior varsity head coach. In total, Leach has served as head coach for three Austin area high school teams, being the first head coach and program director at Cedar Park High School and later on serving in the same position at Westlake High School. 

Leach's longest tenure as a head coach comes from serving in that role for the University of Texas women's lacrosse club program where she was the leader of the Longhorns from 2005 to 2017. In that time, her teams won ten TWLL championship titles, qualifying for the WCLA national tournament in each of those seasons. Leach earned Coach of the Year twice in that span while overseeing eight Player of the Year winners and numerous first and second-team All-Americans. 

As a player, Brandie Leach was a member of the women's lacrosse Canadian National Team and competed in the 1993 Women's Lacrosse World Cup. She was inducted into the Cherry Hill West High School Hall of Fame in 2019. 

Leach graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 2002 from Texas Chiropractic College, also earning her Doctrine of Chiropractic.