Mack Leonard, Illinois State (ISU photo)

Father’s Memory Inspires Illinois State’s Mack Leonard

Featured Rhiannon Potkey - July 31, 2020

Mack Leonard has the date of her father’s death marked on her glove. She wears a locket with his initials on the outside, his picture on the inside and “Always In My Heart” inscribed nearby.

Ken Leonard passed away during Leonard’s junior year of high school. He went into cardiac arrest at work and suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen. The former championship decathlete was only 45.

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