PRINCETON, N.J. - Yale basketball alums Mary Kalich '95 and Steve Leondis '83 have been selected as part of the fourth annual 16 member class of Legends of Ivy League Basketball, announced by the Ivy League on Tuesday. These Legends embody the unrivaled experience afforded Ivy League student-athletes and have left a lasting impact on their respective basketball programs, universities and chosen professions. They will be honored at the Ivy League Basketball Tournaments in March.

This year's class includes five Ivy League Rookies of the Year, four Ivy League Players or Defensive Players of the Year and nine 1,000-point scorers. It also features an Olympian, the sitting governor of the state of Massachusetts and the current president of Colby-Sawyer College. On the court and in the classroom, this year's class combined for 30 All-Ivy (16 First Team, 14 Second Team) and four Academic All-Ivy nods.
Each Ivy League institution is represented by one male and one female honoree, as selected by their university athletic department.

"The members of the 2020 Legends of Ivy League Basketball class exemplify the unrivaled experience that our student-athletes receive," said Executive Director Robin Harris. "These distinguished individuals have accomplished much—on the court, in the classroom and in life—and we look forward to celebrating them at Ivy Madness in March."

Each legend will be formally honored at the 2020 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments on Saturday, March 14, at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass. A variety of ticket offerings are on sale now via IvyMadness.com.

Biographical information on Yale's honorees is below.

Mary Kalich '95

• Four-time All-Ivy selection
• Three-time team MVP
• 1992 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 1,663 career points -- Yale's all-time leader
• Averaged 16.0 points, best career scoring average in school history
• As a senior in 1995, won Yale's Nellie P. Eliot Award (awarded to the senior woman whose excellence in the field of athletics and in her life at Yale best represents the ideals of sportsmanship and Yale tradition)
• Academic All-Ivy League 1995
• NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship 1995
• Served as an assistant coach at Emmanuel College, Yale and New Hampshire
• Worked at St. Charles Children's Home in Rochester, N.H.

 
Steve Leondis '83

• Three-time All-Ivy selection
• 1980 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 1,540 career points -- fifth-most in school history
• Averaged 15.1 points, ninth best career scoring average in school history
• As a senior in 1983, finished third in Ivy League in scoring (18.3 ppg) and won team's Stan Smith Senior Award
• Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Air Freight
• Founded "Hoops on the Hill", a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to empower and encourage at-risk teenagers and develop their God-given potential
• Inducted into Hellenic Athletic Hall of Fame for his basketball accomplishments while a student-athlete at Yale.
• Works with Project Nyame Nsa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expressing the love of God to orphans and highly vulnerable children particularly in Ghana and Zambia, Africa.