House Resolution 152 - Introduced
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H.R. ________ S.R. ________
1 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.
1 2 BY JACOBS, RAECKER, ABDUL-SAMAD, ALONS,
1 3 ANDERSON, ARNOLD, BAILEY, BAUDLER, BELL, BERRY,
1 4 BOAL, BUKTA, CHAMBERS, CLUTE, COHOON, DANDEKAR,
1 5 DAVITT, DE BOEF, DEYOE, DOLECHECK, DRAKE, FOEGE,
1 6 FORD, FORRISTALL, FREVERT, GASKILL, GAYMAN, GIPP,
1 7 GRANZOW, GRASSLEY, GREINER, HEATON, HEDDENS,
1 8 HOFFMAN, HORBACH, HUNTER, HUSEMAN, HUSER, JACOBY,
1 9 JOCHUM, KAUFMANN, KELLEY, KRESSIG, KUHN, LENSING,
1 10 LUKAN, LYKAM, MASCHER, MAY, McCARTHY, MERTZ,
1 11 H. MILLER, L. MILLER, MURPHY, OLDSON, D. OLSON,
1 12 R. OLSON, S. OLSON, T. OLSON, PALMER, PAULSEN,
1 13 PETERSEN, PETTENGILL, QUIRK, RANTS, RASMUSSEN,
1 14 RAYHONS, REASONER, REICHERT, ROBERTS, SANDS,
1 15 SCHICKEL, SCHUELLER, SHOMSHOR, SMITH, SODERBERG,
1 16 STAED, STRUYK, SWAIM, D. TAYLOR, T. TAYLOR,
1 17 THOMAS, TJEPKES, TOMENGA, TYMESON, UPMEYER,
1 18 VAN ENGELENHOVEN, VAN FOSSEN, WATTS,
1 19 WENDT, WENTHE, WESSEL-KROESCHELL, WHITAKER,
1 20 WHITEAD, WIENCEK, WINCKLER, WINDSCHITL, WISE,
1 21 WORTHAN, and ZIRKELBACH
1 22
1 23 A Resolution to honor the Drake University men's basketball
1 24 coach Keno Davis.
1 25 WHEREAS, Coach Keno Davis began his career by
1 26 serving six years as assistant coach at Southeast
1 27 Missouri State University, and in 2003 joined his
1 28 legendary father, Dr. Tom Davis, as part of the Drake
1 29 men's basketball coaching staff; and
1 30 WHEREAS, building on the work of his father, Keno
2 1 Davis assumed the head coaching position in 2007 and
2 2 immediately led the team to its first appearance in
2 3 NCAA's national tournament since 1971, defeating
2 4 Illinois State University 79=49 in the Missouri Valley
2 5 Conference championship game; and
2 6 WHEREAS, the Bulldogs, with that victory in the
2 7 Missouri Valley Conference tournament, and with a
2 8 record of 28 wins and 4 losses, became one of the top
2 9 20 basketball teams in the nation; and
2 10 WHEREAS, Coach Maury John, who took the Drake
2 11 University men's basketball team to the NCAA Final
2 12 Four in 1969 and the Midwest Regional final in 1970
2 13 and 1971, would be proud to see the talent, the
2 14 dedication, and the fire of today's team and the young
2 15 coach who has taken them so far and so fast; and
2 16 WHEREAS, just completing his first year as head
2 17 coach, Keno Davis has been named the Missouri Valley
2 18 Conference Coach of the Year and The Sporting News
2 19 College Basketball Coach of the Year and was given the
2 20 Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award by the U.S.
2 21 Basketball Writers Association; and
2 22 WHEREAS, Keno Davis has been named the Associated
2 23 Press National Coach of the Year for 2007=2008, only
2 24 the third first=year coach to win that award; NOW
2 25 THEREFORE,
2 26 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
2 27 That the House of Representatives honors Coach Keno
2 28 Davis, a worthy successor to his father and to the
2 29 memory of Maury John, for being named coach of the
2 30 year by both the Missouri Valley Conference and
3 1 Sporting News; and
3 2 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
3 3 REPRESENTATIVES, That the House of Representatives
3 4 thanks Coach Davis for the honor he has brought to
3 5 Drake University, to Bulldog fans everywhere, and to
3 6 his home state of Iowa.
3 7 LSB 6603HH 82
3 8 jr/rj/14