2024 Football Roster
Roster

Jersey Number 9
Blake Leake
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Culpeper, Va.
- High School:
- Eastern View
- Major:
- MS in Management
- Position:
- LB
2024: Appeared in 14 games with 13 starts… Led the defense in total tackles with 91 and assisted tackles with 56, including 35 solo tackles… Recorded four tackles for loss… Had one interception, three pass breakups and one forced fumble… Season high 12 tackles against Morgan State and Ball State… Earned All-MAC Third Team Defense honors.
Prior to Ohio: Spent previous four seasons at Bucknell, serving as a team captain in his senior season… Over Bucknell career played in 31 games, collecting 208 total tackles, four sacks, two interceptions, eight pass deflections, and one touchdown on an interception return in 2021… Senior year named recipient of the Theodore S. Ratkus Leadership Award for character, courage and commitment to team play…Lettered in football at Eastern View High School playing on both sides of the ball… Lead team to four-straight district titles and a 2018 regional win… 2018 all-state first team wide receiver and defensive back … two-time all-region wide receiver and defensive back… two-time all-district first team wide receiver and defensive back…  also lettered in basketball, helping Eastern View win a district title as a freshman … two-time all-district honoree and honorable mention all-region selection.Â
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Personal:Â Son of Daren and Sharon Leake with an older brother Brett
Prior to Ohio: Spent previous four seasons at Bucknell, serving as a team captain in his senior season… Over Bucknell career played in 31 games, collecting 208 total tackles, four sacks, two interceptions, eight pass deflections, and one touchdown on an interception return in 2021… Senior year named recipient of the Theodore S. Ratkus Leadership Award for character, courage and commitment to team play…Lettered in football at Eastern View High School playing on both sides of the ball… Lead team to four-straight district titles and a 2018 regional win… 2018 all-state first team wide receiver and defensive back … two-time all-region wide receiver and defensive back… two-time all-district first team wide receiver and defensive back…  also lettered in basketball, helping Eastern View win a district title as a freshman … two-time all-district honoree and honorable mention all-region selection.Â
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Personal:Â Son of Daren and Sharon Leake with an older brother Brett
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