Full Text of HR1129 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team | 3 | | won the 2012 NCAA National Championship after beating Syracuse | 4 | | by a score of 8 to 6, on Sunday, May 27, 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, This is the eighth consecutive year that the | 6 | | Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team has played in the | 7 | | NCAA National Championship game, which ties the NCAA record for | 8 | | consecutive championship games; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, This is the seventh time that the Northwestern | 10 | | University Women's Lacrosse Team has won the NCAA National | 11 | | Championship in the 8 championship games in which it has | 12 | | played; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team | 14 | | has compiled an overall record of 168-9 since its first | 15 | | championship season of 2005, including an astonishing 82-2 | 16 | | record on its home field in Evanston; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team | 18 | | is the only Division I team from the State of Illinois to win a | 19 | | national championship in one of the 20 NCAA-sponsored women's | 20 | | sports in the last 30 years; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team | 2 | | outscored its opponents in 2012 by a combined total of 307-172 | 3 | | and recorded 11 wins over teams ranked in the Top Ten | 4 | | nationally; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Northwestern University is the only school in | 6 | | Illinois fielding an NCAA Division I team among the 92 women's | 7 | | teams and 61 men's teams in Division I; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Senior Shannon Smith, the reigning National | 9 | | Player of the Year, completed her collegiate career by scoring | 10 | | 2 goals against Syracuse, which made her the second leading | 11 | | point scorer in NCAA tournament history and also made her the | 12 | | Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team's all-time | 13 | | leader in goals scored, with 254; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Winning NCAA women's lacrosse titles has become | 15 | | routine for the Northwestern University Women's Lacrosse Team; | 16 | | and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The success of a great team can always be traced | 18 | | to a great coach; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller of the Northwestern | 20 | | University Women's Lacrosse Team now holds the NCAA women's | 21 | | lacrosse records for most coaching victories and the best |
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| 1 | | winning percentage in the NCAA National Tournament; therefore, | 2 | | be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 | | we congratulate and commend the Northwestern University | 6 | | Women's Lacrosse Team on its seventh NCAA National Championship | 7 | | in the last 8 years and its victory over Syracuse; and we wish | 8 | | the team members continued success in the future; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller and to Athletic Director | 12 | | Jim Phillips as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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