There was a time when Alexis Leech was not a track athlete. All that has changed and the Butler senior has become one of the school's all-time greatest track athletes.

BUTLER TWP — Alexis Leech had no inclination to join the Butler girls track and field team.

“I always played soccer and lacrosse and volleyball,” the senior said. “It was never something that was on my radar.”

But something changed last year.

Leech had a class with former Butler track and field great, Annessa Schnur Steele, who planted the seed for Leech — tall, lanky and athletically gifted — to give track a try.

Former Butler head track and field coach and current Butler girls assistant coach Mike Seybert, also a teacher in the high school, also had her ear.

So Leech joined the team as a junior.

“I went to one practice and I went to one meet,” Leech said, “and I loved it.”

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