Lesley Lehane took over the direction of the women's cross country and track & field team in 1993-94 and continued in that role until the program was re-strutctured in 2005 and she was named Assistant Director of Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track and Field. 

In 1997 she led the Terriers to the AMERICA EAST indoor conference championship and repeated that achievement in 1999, in 2000, and again in 2002.  She has been named four times as AMERICA EAST coach of the year. The Cross Country teams won the America East in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, and 2003; and progressed to the NCAA Championships in 1999 and 2001. The team also won the New England titles in 1995 and 2003.

Over the past five years, Lesley's leadership has enabled the Terriers to collect 74 individual and 15 relay titles at the indoor and outdoor AMERICA EAST and New England Championships.  She has had 10 All Americans since taking the reins of the cross country and track programs.

Her impressive record at the coaching level is a continuation of her brilliant running career. As a sophomore at the University of Virginia in 1982, Lehane captured the individual NCAA Cross Country title, before adding the TAC National Championship to become the first women to win the two meets in the same year. In recognition of her efforts, Lehane was named the outstanding collegiate athlete in women's cross-country and was a finalist for the NCAA's Broderick Award presented to the nation's premier female athlete in college sports.

Prior to the 1984-85 , she transferred to Boston University, and, although she did not compete for the Terriers, she continued to add to her already impressive resumé. In 1987, she helped the United States to the team title at the World Cross Country Championships by finishing fifth overall. The following fall, she again outdistanced the field to win her second TAC National Cross-Country Championship.

Through her career, she has established a number of US and World records, including the former world mark of 15:19 in the indoor 5000 meters. Nationally, she has held the American records in the five-mile run (25:37), the indoor 3000 meters (8:44), and the 10-mile run (53:04). In 1988 she completed the outdoor 10,000 meters in 31:42.8, recording the top US performance that year.

Lehane retired from competitive running in 1998 after setting an American record in the 3000 meter steeplechase.  Her final outdoor race saw her set an American record in the 2000 meter steeplechase, a mark that still stands to today.

A 1986 graduate of the University's School of Education, Lehane first joined the Terrier track and Field program on a volunteer basis in 1987, when she worked with the men's and women's distance runners. In November of 1992, she was promoted to assistant coach, and, in the summer of 1993, became the head coach of women's track and field.

Lehane's twin sister, Lisa Brady, was a two-time All-American with the Terrier track and field program, who was inducted into the Boston University Athletic Hall of Fame during the spring of 1993.

Lesley Lehane is the wife of Bruce Lehane, Boston University's cross country and distance coach. The Lehane's have three sons, Blaize, Elliot, and Aidan, and reside in Brookline.