House Resolution 138

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2                        BY  RANTS
  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, finished with 34 points
  1 24 to go along with six assists and six rebounds, and was
  1 25 named the tournament's Most Valuable Player; and
  1 26    WHEREAS, Megan Cloud was joined on the all=
  1 27 tournament team by teammates Brittany Carper and Kate
  1 28 Lokken; and
  1 29    WHEREAS, Morningside finished its storybook season
  1 30 with a 34=4 record to set a school record for
  2  1 victories, while Cedarville bowed out at 35=3 and had
  2  2 its 23=game winning streak snapped; and
  2  3    WHEREAS, Coach Jamie Sale was named NAIA Division
  2  4 II Coach of the Year; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  5    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  2  6 That the House of Representatives congratulates the
  2  7 Morningside College Women's Basketball Team and their
  2  8 coach on winning the NAIA Division II Women's
  2  9 Basketball National Championship and thanks them for
  2 10 the honor and recognition they have brought to
  2 11 Morningside College and to the State of Iowa; and
  2 12    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon adoption, an
  2 13 official copy of this Resolution be prepared for
  2 14 presentation to Coach Jamie Sale and the Morningside
  2 15 College Women's Basketball Team.
  2 16 LSB 6943HH 80
  2 17 rj/pj/5.1