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Lashea Leggett thrived as a two-sport star for Hinds’ tennis and softball team in the 1990s.

Leggett, a Jackson native, hit the tennis courts running for Coach Cleon McKnight, posting a 16-1 record in both singles and doubles matches and earning her all-state and all-region honors for 1994. The women’s tennis team won the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges title and advanced to the National Junior College Athletics Association championships in Tucson, Ariz. There, she reached the semifinals and became the first All-American tennis player in Mississippi junior college history, male or female.

During her sophomore year, her athletic ability landed her the role of second base on the softball team for Coach Deborah Nichols. On the courts, she duplicated her all-state and all-region honors and led the team to a 17-0 mark and another trip to the national championships.

She graduated Hinds with a 3.7 GPA and attended Mississippi College, where she graduated cum laude. In recent years, she has run a successful massage therapist business, LaLaSpa, with two locations, in Madison and Ocean Springs.