 He is the uncle of Jay Leach.As a youth, Leach played in the 1979 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Boston Braves minor ice hockey team from.He was raised in Lexington, Massachusetts and played his high school hockey at Matignon HS, where he won three, he transferred to Matignon as a sophomore, consecutive Massachusetts HS hockey titles from 1982 to 1984.