EASTON, Pa. – Three standout athletes, two All-Americans and a former Major League Baseball player, highlight the Maroon Club Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015. B.J. Gallis ’97 and Heather McClelland ’02, All-Americans in football and women’s lacrosse, respectively, and former baseball player Jeff Mutis ’89 will be inducted at the Maroon Club Hall of Fame Dinner on Nov. 20 at Marquis Hall. Lafayette’s four teams that qualified for the College World Series (1953, 1954, 1958 and 1965) will also be recognized.

For tickets to the event, which is set to begin at 6 p.m., please contact Sherie Beers via email at beerss@lafayette.edu or (610) 330-5048. Adult tickets are $75, which also includes a $15 tax deductible gift to the Maroon Club General Fund, and $20 for children under 12. Please respond by Nov. 13.

Gallis was an Associated Press and Sports Network All-America Third-Team selection while also garnering ECAC Second-Team All-Star status in his senior season of 1996 when the team was ranked as high as No. 20 in the nation. That season, the team co-captain was named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year while securing All-Patriot League First-Team honors. His stats backed up that honor as he accumulated a team-high 115 tackles, three interceptions, three forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries

He was the team MVP his final campaign and the school’s 1997 Charles L. Albert Award ’08 recipient, going to the senior student-athlete judged to be the most outstanding athlete. Gallis was a three-year starter at strong safety, finishing his career with 309 tackles, 11 interceptions, seven fumble recoveries, two blocked kicks and four sacks. Gallis played 33 consecutive games without missing a start, leading the team in interceptions with three in 1994 when Lafayette won the Patriot League title, five in 1995 when he was an All-Patriot League Second-Team honoree and six in 1996.

After graduating, he played three years in the Canadian Football League (CFL), two seasons (1997-98) with the B.C. Lions and one with the Edmonton Eskimos. He was named Rookie of the Year in the CFL Western Division in 1997. Gallis also attended NFL training camps with the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Washington Redskins.

In 2000, Gallis was named to the Patriot League 15th Anniversary Team and he was later selected to the 25th Anniversary Team in 2011.

Gallis has a five-year old daughter named Kamryn whose mother is former Lafayette basketball standout Tiffany Bedics ’99. Gallis has worked for the pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, for 15 years and lives in Easton, Pa.

McClelland was a Mid-Atlantic Region Second-Team All-America selection in 2000, 2001 and 2002 when she also achieved All-Patriot League First-Team status. Patriot League individual honors began in her freshman season of 1999 when she was the Patriot League Rookie of the Year as a second-team selection and continued in 2001 and 2002 when she secured Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year laurels. In 2001, McClelland was fifth in the nation with 3.78 goals per game.

McClelland helped guide Lafayette to Patriot League championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002. She finished her career with 279 points on 196 goals and 83 assists, and ranks third all-time at Lafayette in each of those career statistical categories. She is fifth in the Patriot League in career points (279) and single-season goals (68 in 2001) and sixth in career goals and assists.

After graduating, McClelland was an assistant coach at Wesleyan University from 2003-04. She also served as the head coach at the University of New Haven in 2005 and the head coach at Connecticut College from 2006-11. In 2015, she was named to the Patriot League’s 25th Anniversary Team.

McClelland currently resides in Montville, Conn. with her partner Alexa. She is currently an officer in the Groton Police Department where she was named Officer of the Year in 2015.

Mutis has the distinction of being the last Lafayette baseball player to have played in Major League Baseball, spending his career with the Cleveland Indians and the Florida Marlins from 1991-94. He was selected in the 1988 Major League Baseball Draft as the 27th pick in the first round.

While at Lafayette, Mutis was an All-East Coast Conference selection in 1986, 1987 and 1988. The southpaw led Lafayette to the program’s seventh Patriot League regular-season title in 1986 when he garnered Freshman All-America honors. He was also a USA Baseball Team alternate that year. In 1987, he was a member of the Pan-American National Team member. He finished his Lafayette career second in single-season wins (10), fourth in career wins (18), seventh in career ERA (2.89) and innings pitched (218), and fourth in career strikeouts (167).

Mutis lives in Brights Grove, Ontario with his wife, Kelly, and their daughters Carolyn and Julie. He works at Precision Computer Solutions as a software engineer and system analyst.

Lafayette’s four College World Series teams (1953, 1954, 1958 and 1965) will also take their place in the Maroon Club Hall of Fame, joining five teams previously recognized. The 1953 team finished with a 20-6-2 mark with wins over Pitt and Penn State in the NCAA District 2 Playoffs in Easton, Pa. to qualify for the College World Series. At the College World Series, the Leopards beat Colorado State College, Stanford and Boston College while losing twice to Texas, which later advanced to the title game. Lafayette finished third in the CWS. The 1953 Lafayette squad managed a 12-game winning streak midway through the season, and Ronnie Owen set a program record for victories in a season with 12.

Behind a 16-8 record and wins over Villanova and St. John’s in the NCAA District 2 Playoffs in Allentown, Pa., the 1954 team made it back-to-back appearances in the College World Series. At the CWS, the Leopards lost to Missouri and Oklahoma A&M. Owen won seven games and finished with a 1.81 ERA and 66 strikeouts.

Four years later, the Maroon and White were back in the College World Series, qualifying via wins over Penn State and NYU in the District 2 Playoffs. That team compiled a 19-10 record before losing to Colorado State and Western Michigan in Omaha. The team opened with 10-straight wins and was led offensively by Lafayette’s career batting average leader, shortstop and team captain Tom Morgan (.405 career) and Bob Kessler (.396 career).

The 1965 team went 18-8, beating Pitt and Princeton in the District 2 Playoffs to qualify for the College World Series. At the College World Series, the Leopards lost to eventual-champion Arizona State, which finished the season 54-8 and was led by future career Major Leaguers Sal Bando and Rick Monday. The Leopards were knocked out of the CWS by Connecticut. The Leopards won 12 of their first 15 games, went 3-1 against Lehigh and won the Middle Atlantic Conference title. Hall of Famer Don Lordan led the team with nine victories, pitching 93.2 innings while striking out 65. John Ireland was 5-2 with a 2.45 ERA. Offensively, Lordan boasted a .404 batting average in 57 at-bats, while shortstop Walt Manuel drove in 15 runs on 32 hits with six triples. Dan Kristoff and Jim Burns drove in 18 and 16, respectively.

In addition, Lafayette selections to the Patriot League 25th Anniversary Teams will be recognized at the Nov. 20 event.