Ted Leneski earned a Best Lineman award and a spot on the Junior College All-American Team as co-captain of the football team for Montgomery College in 1954. His team was undefeated in 1953–54. Ted was also captain of the baseball team in 1955.

Ted has owned the Waterfront Park Campground at Moneta Smith Mountain in Virginia since 1971 and owned Tinder Box in White Flint from 1987 to 2005. In the early 1970s, he was the financial secretary for the Knights of Columbus and fourth degree of the Roanoke, Virginia Council. Ted was also the State Director for the Virginia Jaycees in 1968, and the National Director for the U.S. Jaycees in 1969. As a result of his commitment to the community, his name was included in the 1969 Outstanding Young Men in America publication.

Ted was part of the Montgomery County Baseball Umpires Association in 1954–55. He received a football scholarship to George Washington University for 1956–58, where he helped win the Sun Bowl in 1957. He earned his Business Administration degree from George Washington University in 1959.

Retired and living in Kernersville, Ted spends a portion of his time on the grounds of a Hale Irwin-designed golf course, Meadowland, in Winston-Salem, N.C.