Senate Resolution 26 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                      BY  LAMBERTI
  1  3 A Resolution honoring the Ankeny High School Girls'
  1  4    Basketball Team.
  1  5    WHEREAS, The Ankeny "Hawkettes" High School Girls'
  1  6 Basketball Team completed the 2004=2005 season with an
  1  7 impressive 27=0 record, ranked first in the class 4A
  1  8 division by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union;
  1  9 and
  1 10    WHEREAS, even that remarkable record was topped on
  1 11 Saturday, March 12, 2005, when the Ankeny Hawkettes
  1 12 became the first Iowa high school girls' team to win
  1 13 four consecutive crowns since a state=sanctioned
  1 14 tournament began in 1926; and
  1 15    WHEREAS, that victory gave the Ankeny Hawkettes a
  1 16 sizzling record of 44 wins in consecutive games, 66 in
  1 17 a row against Iowa opponents; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, the 2005 tournament victory was preceded
  1 19 in December 2004 by a victory in one of the nation's
  1 20 most prestigious tournaments, the Kroger Holiday
  1 21 Classic in Pickerington, Ohio, against three out=of=
  1 22 state teams; and
  1 23    WHEREAS, the core members of the team have played
  1 24 together since the 3rd and 4th grades, winning 2nd
  1 25 place in the Great American Shootout in Minneapolis,
  1 26 Minnesota, after their 7th grade year; and
  1 27    WHEREAS, the Ankeny Hawkettes are now ranked the
  1 28 number 2 girls' high school basketball team in the
  1 29 nation in the USA Today Super 25; and
  1 30    WHEREAS, the Ankeny Hawkettes currently own more
  2  1 overall titles, nine, than any other school in Iowa,
  2  2 and coach Scott DeJong, can claim six of them; NOW
  2  3 THEREFORE,
  2  4    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  5 congratulates the members of the Ankeny High School
  2  6 Girls' Basketball Team and their coach, Scott DeJong,
  2  7 for a decade=long string of sports achievements and
  2  8 thanks them for the honor and recognition they have
  2  9 brought to Ankeny and to the State of Iowa; and
  2 10    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon adoption, an
  2 11 official copy of this Resolution be prepared for
  2 12 presentation to Coach DeJong and the members of the
  2 13 Ankeny "Hawkettes" High School Girls' Basketball Team.
  2 14 LSB 3469SS 81
  2 15 jr:rj/gg/14