Lyndsey Leask

Lyndsey Alison Leask (4 October 1935 – 2 December 2021) was a New Zealand softball player, coach and administrator. She was manager of the New Zealand women's team at two world championship tournaments, in 1978 and 1982, and was the first woman to serve as president of the New Zealand Softball Association (now Softball New Zealand) from 1993 to 1997.

Biography Leask was born in Ashburton on 4 October 1935, the daughter of Alison and James Leask, and educated at Papanui High School in Christchurch. She went on to study at Christchurch Teachers' College. When the NZSA was restructured as Softball New Zealand (SNZ), with a board headed by a chairperson, in 1996, Leask remained as ceremonial president until serving as patron of SNZ from 1997 to 2001.

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leask was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service. In 1999, she was elected to the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame, and in 2016, she was inducted into the Softball New Zealand Hall of Fame.

Leask died on 2 December 2021.