House Resolution 49 - Introduced

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                  BY  WESSEL=KROESCHELL
  1  3 A Resolution honoring the Iowa State University
  1  4    Cyclones Women's Basketball team.
  1  5    WHEREAS, by any measure the 2008=2009 Iowa State
  1  6 University Women's Basketball season has been a
  1  7 remarkable success as the team finished number three
  1  8 in the nation in attendance, winning 27 games,
  1  9 finishing third in the Big 12 Conference, and making
  1 10 the Elite Eight of the 2009 National Collegiate
  1 11 Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship; and
  1 12    WHEREAS, following a 23=7 regular season, where the
  1 13 Cyclones played nine games against nationally ranked
  1 14 opponents, the team, led by seniors Heather Ezell,
  1 15 Amanda Nisleit, Nicky Wieben, Toccara Ross, and
  1 16 Jocelyn Anderson earned a fourth seed in the NCAA
  1 17 Championship's Berkeley, California Region; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, in the tournament the Cyclones beat
  1 19 Michigan State University 69=68 to advance to the NCAA
  1 20 Championship's Elite Eight for the second time in
  1 21 school history, with that remarkable victory including
  1 22 one of the greatest rallies in Iowa State history as
  1 23 the Cyclones trailed by seven points with less than a
  1 24 minute and a half remaining in the game; and
  1 25    WHEREAS, the Cyclones NCAA Championship run
  1 26 included wins over East Tennessee State University and
  1 27 Ball State University; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, following the tournament, senior Amanda
  1 29 Nisleit was named to the NCAA All=Region team; and
  1 30    WHEREAS, for 14 seasons the Cyclones have been led
  2  1 by Iowa=born coach Bill Fennelly, the dean of Big 12
  2  2 Conference coaches who is a three=time finalist for
  2  3 the Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year Award
  2  4 (2001, 2002, 2005), who has been voted Women's
  2  5 Basketball Coaches Association District 5 Coach of the
  2  6 Year twice (1999, 2005), and finished second in the
  2  7 Associated Press' Women's Coach of the Year balloting
  2  8 in 1998; and
  2  9    WHEREAS, Coach Fennelly is ably assisted by
  2 10 associate head coach Jack Easley, assistant coach Jodi
  2 11 Steyer, assistant coach Latoja Schaben, director of
  2 12 basketball operations Josh Carper, and graduate
  2 13 assistant Molly Parrott; and
  2 14    WHEREAS, under Coach Fennelly the women's
  2 15 basketball program has blossomed, attendance has grown
  2 16 from an average of less than 1,000 per game to almost
  2 17 10,000 per game currently, and the Cyclones have
  2 18 posted their ninth 20=win season and 10th NCAA
  2 19 appearance; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 20    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  2 21 That the House of Representatives congratulates Coach
  2 22 Fennelly, his staff, and the members of the Iowa State
  2 23 University Cyclones Women's Basketball team for their
  2 24 outstanding performance in the 2008=2009 season, and
  2 25 thanks them all for the honor they have brought both
  2 26 to their university and to the State of Iowa.
  2 27 LSB 2717HH 83
  2 28 jr/rj/5