Danette Leininger

Dannette Leininger (Athlete - 1981)

-  Dannette Leininger participated in three sports at Jefferson High School, lettering and received All Lake  Conference in all three.  

-  She led the Jefferson High School girls soccer state championship teams in 1979 and 1980, and was selected All State in 1980.  

-  Dannette earned an athletic scholarship in softball at the University of Minnesota, where she was a three-year letter winner and earned all Big 10 honors, and we recently inducted in the University of MN Softball Hall of Fame.

-  Dannette was a member of the USA Olympic handball team in 1992 and 1996

-  Currently, Dannette manages the newly opened Al Oerter Recreation Center in Flushing Meadows Corna Park in New York.