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Meet Alexa DeLeon, wife of Nascar star Tyler Reddick: she’s a mental health and environmental advocate, and the daughter of an MLB player – but why did she lose out to her hubby on naming their son?

Alexa DeLeon, the wife of Nascar star Tyler Reddick, is a mental health and environmental advocate, and the daughter of an MLB player – but why did she lose out to her husband on naming their son? Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram
Alexa DeLeon, the wife of Nascar star Tyler Reddick, is a mental health and environmental advocate, and the daughter of an MLB player – but why did she lose out to her husband on naming their son? Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram

It’s been a big year for Reddick, who not only won the Regular Season Championship despite suffering from a stomach flu, but also married his long-time girlfriend and the mother of his son

Nascar star Tyler Reddick has done it again. The 28-year-old just won the Nascar Cup Series Regular Season Championship at the Cook Out Southern 500, beating Kyle Larson by one point. The victory did not come easy though.

Per AP, the racer was suffering from a stomach flu that he’d caught from his young son, which left him feeling terribly ill during the race – so much so that he thought he might puke inside his helmet or have diarrhoea. The diarrhoea medication he’d been taking stopped the latter from happening but it made him sicker behind the wheel. “I can hardly remember sections of the race, I was so out of it at times,” he said, before expressing relief that he didn’t “take someone out during caution or make some crazy moves on the racetrack to take anyone else out”.

Tyler Reddick (second from right) last month with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan after the Nascar Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Photo: Getty Images
Tyler Reddick (second from right) last month with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan after the Nascar Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Photo: Getty Images
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Motivating him through the race at Darlington Raceway was his team 23XI Racing’s co-owner Michael Jordan, who recalled his own legendary performance against the Utah Jazz in Game 5 at the 1997 NBA Finals, famously dubbed the Flu Game. “I mean, I know what it feels like to be sick and trying to perform, and just to do what he did, I mean, I wasn’t going around 200 miles an hour in a car, but I’m proud of his effort, and we needed it,” Jordan said, per Nascar.

Reddick’s big win comes hot on the heels of another major milestone in his life. Earlier this year, he married his long-time girlfriend Alexa DeLeon, with whom he shares four-year-old Beau. Fun fact: based on an Instagram photo of their engagement captioned, “After years of Tyler hinting and sending me rings, I finally proposed,” it seems like she was the one who popped the question. The ceremony was held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and was attended by the who’s who of the racing world, including 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin, driver Bubba Wallace, and Sam Hunt of Sam Hunt Racing.

So just who is Tyler Reddick’s new wife?

Her father was a pro baseball player

Alexa DeLeon honoured her late father in an Instagram post in April. Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram
Alexa DeLeon honoured her late father in an Instagram post in April. Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram

The Nascar WAG’s father, the late Jose DeLeon, was a famous Major League Baseball pitcher. He died in February this year after battling cancer. Reddick revealed in an interview with The Athletic that during DeLeon’s stint at the Chicago White Sox, he spent some time with Jordan during spring training. He also shared that there might be a picture of the Basketball Hall of Famer holding his now-wife as a baby. In April, Alexa posted a life update on her Instagram, in which she shared pictures of herself as a baby with her father.

What does Alexa DeLeon do for work?

Alexa DeLeon is a dedicated philanthropist, wife and mother of one. Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram
Alexa DeLeon is a dedicated philanthropist, wife and mother of one. Photo: @alexareddick_/Instagram

Alexa DeLeon is an influencer, social healthcare worker and businesswoman, per the USA Network. The outlet reports that she works with an organisation called West Kent to offer mental health assistance to young people, free of charge. DeLeon also founded the non-profit Sembration Opita, to raise awareness about environmental causes, aid reforestation and give back to the Dominican community. DeLeon’s father was Dominican.

According to her Instagram bio, DeLeon is a Christian, a mother and “chauffeur and chef to Beau”.