Leonie Kurzlechner

Position:
Player
Height:
5-9
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Newport Beach, Calif.

2018-19: Earned second in the 3V8 race at the Lake Wheeler Invitational (6:57.856), helping Duke capture first place over nine schools with 99 points.

Prior to Duke: Attended the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. … lettered in dance for two years and was a member of an audition-only dance company … is a co-founder of New England Prep School Dance Festival, a interschool dance festival for New England prep schools … was the editor-in-chief of her school’s yearbook, The Confluence, for three years … director of student activities and senior resident assistant … inducted in the Cum Laude Society, earning multiple awards including the Charles Edar Sellers Prize, J. Newfield Senior Science price, the Founders Prize, the Junior Science Award, Junior Theater & Dance Award, a four-time winner of the Baxter Science Award, two-time winner of the Barry M. Moran Mathematics Award and the 2015 Gold medal and 2016 Bronze Medal in the Councours National de Français … earned honor roll all four years.

Personal: Born September 10, 2000 … daughter of Andreas Kurzlechner and Madelaine and step-father Thomas Baker … has two sisters named Beatrice and Chloe and two brothers Arthur and Adrien … Born in Munich, Germany.