She has coached at both the high school and college level for 25 seasons. Her passion for coaching has come from her lucrative playing career. She played at Auburn University from 1996-1999 and hit the program's first homerun in school history, having played on the first team and helping build the Auburn program from the ground up. She also spent one season at Huntingdon College where she played both volleyball and softball in the 1994-1995 season. Her playing career started at Robertsdale High School and was on the State's first fast pitch softball team. Steiner-Leak was as an All state, All Area performer, and a 2007 inductee into Robertsdale HS Hall of Fame, having lettered in softball, volleyball, basketball, and track all four years.
Her passion to play the game has led to her passion in coaching. Her record in high school was 214-52 with stops at Eufaula HS, Palmetto HS (Florida), and lastly at Brewtech HS, where she won a 5a State Championship and was named 5a Coach of the Year, before coming back into college coaching in the 2024 spring season.
She started her college coaching career building two brand new programs. In 2004 she started the Reinhardt College softball program before heading back to Alabama and starting the program at Auburn University-Montgomery. In her seven years at AUM, she went 234-97 picking up a National Championship, while playing in five national tournaments. She has made additional stops at Alabama State, where she won two SWAC Championships and had two NCAA Tournament appearances and Florida International University during her college coaching career before landing at Southern Union last November.
Her Southern Union softball team went 15-31 in her first year and made a run to the Championship game finishing second in the ACCC last season.
Steiner-Leak has been known to build programs into Championship competing programs, having won a National Championship, State Championship, and several Conference Championships. She has started her 25th season as a Head Coach and been named Coach of the Year several times during her tenure.
Southern Union has started the season off on a hot streak as they are currently winners of 9 straight games and are 13-2 on the season. In her second season with the Lady Bison, Steiner-Leak has turned the program around and hoping for good things this season.
Coach Leak's collegiate record is 486-396-2. She could possibly hit another milestone later in the season looking for her 500th collegiate win which is knocking on the door. They play next in Oxford in the JUCO Extravaganza this Friday and Saturday.