Leslie Maxie (born January 4, 1967, in San Francisco, California) is a retired American track and field athlete and subsequently a television broadcast journalist.

While attending Mills High School, she set the still standing World Youth Best of 55.20 seconds in the 400 metre hurdles on June 9, 1984, while finishing second at the 1984 TAC USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at nearby San Jose City College.

[1] Maxie competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, running 56.10 seconds to finish a non-qualifying 5th place in the heat of the 400 hurdles.

[4] See the race A week before the 1984 state meet, in Berkeley, California she set the National High School record in the 300 hurdles at 40.18[5] That performance is still ranked as the number three mark of all time.

[11] As a young athlete she was selected to work on the children's programming show Kidwatch on KRON which led to her interest in journalism.

She purposefully did not cover track and field until she was established as a general correspondent which allowed her to cover the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA All Star Games, Tour de France, championship boxing and tennis for Fox, CBS, Oxygen Media and NBC.