Laura Leonetti '04 - Softball Coach - Brown University Athletics

Laura Leonetti '04

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
softball@brown.edu
Phone:
401-863-2353

Brown Softball alumna Laura Leonetti ’04 returns to the program as a full-time assistant coach in 2023, a position she held previously in 2004-2006. Leonetti is a former National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) player with almost two decades of coaching experience as a college-level assistant, 18U head coach, and longtime private instructor.

Most recently, Leonetti spent the summer of 2023 as an assistant coach with the Mystic Schooners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), one of the top wood bat summer leagues in the country. The Schooners finished the regular season with the second-best record in the league. In the spring of 2023, Leonetti was a part time assistant for Wesleyan Softball.

For 16 years Leonetti was an instructor in Texas, developing student-athletes and preparing them to play at the collegiate level. As head coach of the 18U Magic in Missouri City, Texas, she led her team to a regional championship in 2007.

During her first stint as an assistant for Brown Softball in 2004-2006, Leonetti managed the outfielders, provided defensive skill instruction, worked with hitters, assisted with practice, game, and travel planning, and helped with player recruitment.

A four-year starter for Brown Softball from 2000-04, Leonetti was a three-time First Team All-Ivy selection (2002, 2003, 2004) and two-year captain (2003, 2004). Her senior year in 2004, she slashed .408/.520/.592 and had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in all 39 games at 2B, leading the Bears to an Ivy League title. She was named First Team All-Northeast Region and won the Marjorie Brown Smith Award for the Outstanding Female Athlete at Brown.

After graduating in 2004, Leonetti was drafted by the Texas Thunder in the NPF. She was traded to the New England Riptide where she started as the right fielder.

Leonetti received her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and is an experienced legal consultant. For more than a decade she has worked on a wide range of consulting engagements, helping corporate law departments and law firms improve efficiency and productivity and reduce risk. Leonetti served five years on the Council for the State Bar of Texas Computer & Technology Section.