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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
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