Previous Background
Leanne has served as director of operations for Coosa International Tennis Academy and Coosa Junior Golf Academy since 2009. She has more than 25 years of coaching and teaching experience, and is a certified TOEFL instructor with memberships to both USPTA and USPTR. In high school, Leanne was a 12-time All-State honoree and won two state championships in track and field. At the collegiate level, she excelled in tennis, cross country and track. She was a three-time All-American and finished second in the 1985 NAIA heptathlon, which later earned her induction into Campbell University’s Sports Hall of Fame. After graduating with dual major in communication and literature, Leanne went on to become a 16-time North Carolina state cycling champion. Ranked among the United States’ top cyclists from 1988-92, she participated in both the National Cycling Championships and the U.S. Olympic Cycling Trials. Leanne also taught English at Darlington from 2004-2009. She is married to Marshall Mann (’66), the father of alumnae Ashley (Mann) Pittman (’89) and Lindsey (Mann) Field (’99).
