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1 1 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY WIECK and WARNSTADT
1 3 A Resolution honoring the Morningside College Women's
1 4 Basketball Team on their national championship.
1 5 WHEREAS, Morningside College of Sioux City used a
1 6 record setting three-point shooting display to win its
1 7 first-ever women's basketball national championship
1 8 when it defeated Cedarville University 87-74 in the
1 9 title game of the NAIA Division II National Tournament
1 10 in Sioux City's Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena; and
1 11 WHEREAS, the Morningside Mustangs made a national
1 12 tournament single-game record 17 three-point field
1 13 goals to erase the former record of 15 three-pointers
1 14 the Mustangs made in their opening round win; and
1 15 WHEREAS, Morningside shot a sizzling 48.6 percent
1 16 from beyond the three-point arc with 17 treys in 35
1 17 attempts; and
1 18 WHEREAS, Morningside had 47 three-point field goals
1 19 in its five national tournament games to also set a
1 20 record; and
1 21 WHEREAS, Megan Cloud led the way by bombing in
1 22 eight of 11 three-point shots to tie the national
1 23 tournament single-game record set in the first game of
1 24 the tournament by Kate Lokken, the only senior on the
1 25 team; and
1 26 WHEREAS, Megan Cloud finished with 34 points to go
1 27 along with six assists and six rebounds, and was named
1 28 the tournament's Most Valuable Player; and
1 29 WHEREAS, Megan Cloud was joined on the all-
1 30 tournament team by teammates Brittany Carper and Kate
2 1 Lokken; and
2 2 WHEREAS, Morningside finished its storybook season
2 3 with a 34-4 record to set a school record for
2 4 victories, while Cedarville bowed out at 35-3 and had
2 5 its 23-game winning streak snapped; and
2 6 WHEREAS, Coach Jamie Sale was named NAIA Division
2 7 II Coach of the Year and Brittany Carper, former Sioux
2 8 City East standout, was named NAIA Division II
2 9 National Player of the Year; NOW THEREFORE,
2 10 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
2 11 congratulates the Morningside College Women's
2 12 Basketball Team and their coach on winning the NAIA
2 13 Division II Women's Basketball National Championship
2 14 and thanks them for the honor and recognition they
2 15 have brought to Morningside College and to the State
2 16 of Iowa; and
2 17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon adoption, an
2 18 official copy of this Resolution be prepared for
2 19 presentation to Coach Jamie Sale and the Morningside
2 20 College Women's Basketball Team.
2 21 LSB 7015SS 80
2 22 rj/pj/5
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