Sharon Leach: 5 Facts On Mike Leach Wife
Sharon Leach has been the wife of Mike Leach for 32 years. In the three decades, they have parented four children.
Sharon met Mike when both were undergraduate students at Brigham Young University. At that instance, Mike was full of doubts regarding his career. He couldn’t decide between a lawyer and a coaching career.
She, regardless of Mike’s profession, was captivated by his ambition and drive and believed that he was destined to succeed in whatever he set out to do. Her husband chose to coach as his career later on, and what happened next is well-known.
There was a lot of media attention on January 9, 2020, when it was announced that after eight seasons as the head football coach at Washington State, Coach Leach would be leaving to become the head coach at Mississippi State. Moving around does not trouble Sharon a bit. She is habituated to it. As part of her husband’s coaching career, Sharon has spent time living in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa, and other states. Mississippi was a new state for both.
As much as we know, Mike Leach, head coach of Mississippi State University, is known for his great interviews. He delivered once again during halftime of Mississippi State’s game against Georgia on Saturday night.
When asked if MSU’s kickoff return could shift the momentum in the team’s favor, he turned the question around to ESPN’s sideline reporter Molly McGrath asking the same question.
Five facts On Mike Leach Wife Sharon Leach
1. Sharon Leach And Mike Leach Fell In Love At Brigham Young University.
Mike Leach met his wife, Sharon Leach, at Brigham Young University, Utah. She went by her maiden name, Sharon Smith. They were friends then.
Today B.Y.U. has players like Jaren Hall, who plays football for the University.
Sharon’s interview with the Seattle Times in 2012 revealed that she met Mike in college because her sister married Leach’s former roommate. Coach Leach recollected that he used to drive to Sharon’s home situated in the King Henry Apartments to watch a movie with Sharon and her roommates. He pointed out he preferred Gunsmoke over the girl’s M.A.S.H.
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He would convince the girls to watch Gunsmoke. Persuading Sharon was difficult because she was a tough case. Jokingly he commented that is why he married her.
2. Sharon’s Husband, Coach Leach, is not as good as Mr. Fixit-It
Once Coach Leach decided to find the cause of the slow water flow from the upstairs bathtub. He had just assumed the role of an experienced plumber. But his inexperience caused water to pour into the Leaches’ kitchen resulting in severe water damage.
Memory had let it slip from his brain to turn off the water before fiddling with the pipes and fittings. As no family member could find a water shut-off valve, the pouring damaged the living room and carpets irreparably. The rugs had to be replaced after the accident, as per Sharon.
Before, she said that all the coach’s wives should know better that their husbands are best only at coaching. Therefore, husbands should stick around only to coaching. And they should let the world handle everything else. Her earlier stand proved the point in her own house.
3. Sharon Leach Worked As A Legal Secretary To Support Her Husband In His Pursuits.
Sharon Leach worked full-time for almost fourteen years as an administrative assistant and legal secretary to support the family. She never forgets the hardship she faced to pay the significant debt the Leaches owned.
A big dent in their savings occurred when Mike decided to coach rather than pursue law study at Pepperdine School of Law. As a result, student debt was significant.
In December 2009, Mike was controversially sacked from Texas Tech, which deepened the economic crisis in the family. As a young coach, Mike was out chasing his passion for football. Instead, it was Sharon who carried the financial load.
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Mike did not squander his opportunities when his wife Sharon supported his pursuits. He climbed his coaching career persistently and upwardly. It was in 1996 when Mike landed a significant role in his first Division I job at Kentucky as the offensive coordinator. Afterward, she called it quits on her small-time secretarial career to focus on children and the house.
Mike is the head coach at Washington State University, while Mike and Sharon became grandparents this summer.
4. Sharon And Mike Are Parents To Four Children And Grandparents Of Three Young Ones
Sharon Leach and Mike Leach are parents to three daughters and one son: Janeen, Kim, Cody, and Kiersten. As per the Washington State Football website, Sharon and Mike has three grandchildren too.
Janeen is their oldest daughter. Born in 1985, she attended the same University as her parents, i.e., Brigham Young University. She even placed her dormitory in the same apartment complex as her mother lived during her university life. Her wedding bells chimed in 2009.
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Kimberly followed Janeen in 1989. She is old enough to get a master’s degree in education from Texas University. After her degree, a reading specialist is her current job. She is married like her elder sister – Janeen.
Cody is the only son Sharon and Mike have so far. They had him in 1996. Their youngest child is Kiersten, who came into this world in 1999.
5. Sharon Has Served As His “Kind Of Filter” On Two Of The Books Of Her Husband
Sharon Leach acted out as a filter, just as her husband desired, while her husband was writing two books – “Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football Life” and “Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior.”
Swing Your Sword narrates how Coach Mike Leach decided to steer his life into a coaching career. At the same time, Geronimo is an allegory of leadership skills displayed by an Apache warrior.
When Coach Mike Leach moved to Washington State University in December 2011, Cafe Moro was his most familial stop. He wrote the best part of the book “Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior,” in the same er Cafe. Sipping tea on an ordinary day and chugging shots of espresso in four bags of sugar on a particularly rough day, her husband finished writing the book in the same cafe.
