A graduate of Rushford-Peterson High School, Coach Lesser has a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Cloud State University. Lesser was involved in Track & Field in high school, where she still holds three records, and competed at the collegiate level for SCSU, where she earned All-American honors in the high jump in 2010 and helped set the SCSU Indoor 4x400 Relay Record. The 2023 season will be Lesser's eighth year as an RPH Track and Field coach, working with high jump, horizontal jumps, sprints, and relays. When not coaching, she raises her boys with her husband Jon.