Jack Leasure is an experienced, dedicated and accomplished head coach of the McQuaid Jesuit Varsity Basketball Team. His fellow coaches call him hardworking and passionate, the McQuaid Community calls him a loyal alumnus, and his players, call him coach.

Leasure attended McQuaid from his 9th grade year in 2000 until graduating in 2004. Throughout his McQuaid Jesuit career, Leasure has accomplished multiple achievements and feats. In the 2002-2003 basketball season, he and his team won the New York State Championship, while being ranked second in the nation, only behind some guy named LeBron James and the St. Vincent-St. Mary basketball team.

To this day, no McQuaid Jesuit basketball team has replicated that amount of success in a season. Leasure’s players still talk about the time he scored 8 three pointers in the fourth quarter! His senior year, he averaged 25 points per game, while the national average is 5.8. From his stellar career at McQuaid both athletically and academically, he continued this success at Coastal Carolina University.

At CCU, Leasure stood out right away. He began to shine as a top three-point shooter and was the Big South’s Freshman of the Year. He was the conference’s freshman of the week six times that season. The 2005-2006 season was Leasure’s breakthrough year in which he averaged a career-high 17.8 points per game.

That same year Leasure was second in NCAA Division I with 4.17 made threes per game. He was the Big South’s Scholar Athlete of the Year, as well as its Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, the first time a player won both awards in the same season. He was also an Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press. His 125 made three-pointers set school and conference single-season records as well.

Leasure ended his collegiate career 4th all-time in three pointers made. He then transitioned to a professional career after graduating with a degree from Coastal Carolina University.

Leasure signed with Kelag Wörthersee Piraten of Austria in 2009. He averaged an impressive 14.8 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals per game. Leasure left the Kelag Worthersee in 2010 and played for the Taranaki Mountainairs in New Zealand during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

In 2014, Leasure was not to return to the Mountainairs as he took on coaching responsibilities at McQuaid Jesuit.

Leasure has been the Head Coach of the McQuaid Jesuit Varsity Basketball team since 2014. He’s been named Rochester City Athletic Conference Coach of the Year twice, and has led McQuaid back to the Blue Cross Arena for the first time in nine years.

Leasure will go down as one of the all-time greats in McQuaid history, as a coach, a player and a Knight.