Missouri State

Honors
• First-team all-MVC (2024)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
• MVC Honor Roll (2023-24)

Senior/Career Summary
First-team all-MVC selection in his one season with the Bears, starting 48 games behind the plate and 54 in total...Batted .298 with 16 home runs, 15 doubles and 48 RBI...Batted .327 and slugged .673 after March 1...Led the MVC with 20 runners caught stealing and ranked third with three pickoffs...Tallied 17 multi-hit games and led the team with 14 multi-RBI efforts...Hit two home runs on April 6 at Bradley...Drove in four runs in the season opener at ULM (Feb. 16) and repeated that effort versus Murray State on May 3...Slugged .616 with a .415 on-base percentage for the year thanks to 30 walks and a team-high 11 hit by pitch...Had a four-hit day on March 29 versus Illinois State...Had six different games with two extra-base hits...Scored multiple runs on 13 occasions...Season-long hit streak was nine games and season-base on-base streak was 18.

Background
Spent his first three collegiate seasons in the Southeastern Conference, playing two years at Arkansas and one at Missouri...In Fayetteville, Leach played in 41 games, hitting .237 and slugging .484 with five home runs and 20 RBI for the Razorbacks...In 2023 at Missouri, had four homers and 15 RBI in 37 games...Homered against Missouri State as a member of both Arkansas and Missouri...Graduated early from Carthage (Texas) High to enroll at Arkansas, and was ranked as the No. 5 prep catcher in the state of Texas by Perfect Game.

Personal
Dylan Leach is the son of Danny and Shannette Leach...Born September 13, 2002, in Carthage, Texas...Working towards an individualized graduate certificate.