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PAG LIN 1 1 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 1 2 BY KRAMER, GASKILL, SEXTON, GREINER, REHBERG, 1 3 SCHUERER, DRAKE, FREEMAN, HOUSER, ANGELO, BEHN, 1 4 McKINLEY, LORD, VEENSTRA, BOETTGER, IVERSON, 1 5 TINSMAN, McKEAN, MADDOX, McKIBBEN, REDWINE, 1 6 LAMBERTI, DVORSKY, HAMMOND, HARPER, FINK, BOLKCOM, 1 7 CONNOLLY, FLYNN, RAGAN, SHEARER, FIEGEN, HORN, 1 8 DEARDEN, FRAISE, HANSEN, BLACK, McCOY, and DELUHERY 1 9 A Resolution congratulating Gayle Blevins, Head Coach 1 10 of the University of Iowa Women's Softball Team on 1 11 her successful coaching career. 1 12 WHEREAS, Coach Gayle Blevins is beginning her 15th 1 13 season as Head Coach of the University of Iowa Women's 1 14 Softball Team; and 1 15 WHEREAS, Coach Blevins has surpassed her 900th 1 16 Division I fastpitch softball win, a mark reached by 1 17 only three other coaches in history; and 1 18 WHEREAS, Coach Blevins has also surpassed her 600th 1 19 win at the University of Iowa; and 1 20 WHEREAS, as of March 26, 2002, Coach Blevins has 1 21 accumulated 904 Division I wins and 604 wins at the 1 22 University of Iowa and is still counting; and 1 23 WHEREAS, last season, Coach Blevins led her Hawkeye 1 24 squad to a fourth appearance in the Women's College 1 25 World Series with a 49-14 overall record and a Big Ten 1 26 Conference Tournament Championship; and 1 27 WHEREAS, just two years after becoming head coach, 1 28 Coach Blevins' Hawkeye squad won its first ever Big 1 29 Ten Women's Softball title in 1989; and 1 30 WHEREAS, under Coach Blevins' direction, Iowa has 2 1 won subsequent Big Ten titles in 1990, 1997, and 2000, 2 2 and has never finished lower than fifth in the 2 3 conference; and 2 4 WHEREAS, following Iowa's fourth Big Ten 2 5 Championship in 2000, Coach Blevins was named Big Ten 2 6 Coach of the Year for the third time; and 2 7 WHEREAS, Coach Blevins is currently the third 2 8 winningest active women's softball coach and the 2 9 fourth winningest all-time women's softball coach in 2 10 the nation; and 2 11 WHEREAS, on December 3, 1999, Coach Blevins was 2 12 inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National 2 13 Fastpitch Coaches Association, one of only 17 persons 2 14 to earn this distinction; NOW THEREFORE, 2 15 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate 2 16 congratulates Gayle Blevins, Head Coach of the 2 17 University of Iowa Hawkeyes Women's Softball Team on 2 18 her successful coaching career, thanks Coach Blevins 2 19 for the exceptional teaching abilities and coaching 2 20 talents that she brings to the University of Iowa, and 2 21 wishes Coach Blevins the very best in the future. 2 22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon adoption, the 2 23 Secretary of the Senate shall prepare a copy of this 2 24 Resolution for presentation to Coach Gayle Blevins of 2 25 the University of Iowa Hawkeyes Women's Softball Team. 2 26 LSB 7119SS 79 2 27 tj/cls/14.2
Text: SR00123 Text: SR00125 Text: SR00100 - SR00199 Text: SR Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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