Grade 5 Boys Coach Bio - A Team

HEAD COACH: Chris Leggett

cleggett20@gmail.com - 703-282-4061

Chris Leggett is the coach for the 5th grade boys D1 team for the 2024/2025 season.  Chris has been coaching McLean County Basketball since 2001, and became a head coach in 2009.  He has spent equal time coaching all four grades, 5th through 8th grade, doing four full rotations over his 16 years as a head coach.  Over those 16 years, Chris' teams have won the D1 county title nine times, including four undefeated seasons.   He has won the FCYBL Coach of the Year award seven times.

Coach Leggett believes in a defense-first philosophy.  If you work hard on defense, there will always be a role for you on one of his teams.  He likes the game to be fun for the kids and favors a full-court, up-tempo-style game.  His goal is to teach kids to compete in the right way, and to prepare kids to be ready to play high school basketball when they leave the McLean County Program. While Coach Leggett is proud of the results on the court, he is prouder of the lifelong friendships that his years of coaching have produced.

Chris is married, with a daughter (Greysen, 10 years old), lives and works in Vienna, and has been a "local" his entire life, with the exception of college and graduate school.  He attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ('91),  graduated from Bucknell University ('95) and received a JD/MBA from Wake Forest University ('99).