Full Text of HR0776 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate the Lincoln-Way East | 4 | | Community High School football team, the Griffins, for winning | 5 | | the 2019 8A State Championship on November 30, 2019; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Bouncing back from an 8A semifinal loss in 2018, | 7 | | the Lincoln-Way East Griffins represented the Southwest | 8 | | Suburban Conference at Northern Illinois University's Huskie | 9 | | Stadium, where they beat the previously undefeated Blue Devils | 10 | | of Warren Township High School by a score of 12-0; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Led by Head Coach Rob Zvonar, the Griffins | 12 | | finished an undefeated season with a record of 14 wins and 0 | 13 | | losses; en route to the Championship, Lincoln-Way East won four | 14 | | playoff games against Plainfield South, Notre Dame College | 15 | | Prep, Homewood-Flossmoor, and Marist by a combined score of | 16 | | 113-27; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Including the 2018 State Championship, | 18 | | Lincoln-Way East has won three football State Championships, | 19 | | two of which were won in the last three years; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The gritty championship game, set against bitter | 21 | | temperatures, blustery wind, and unforgiving rain, was marked |
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| 1 | | by a struggle between two defensive powerhouses; Warren | 2 | | Township entered the game allowing 40 points throughout the | 3 | | entirety of the football season; Lincoln-Way East met the | 4 | | challenge, allowing the fewest yards in an Illinois 8A State | 5 | | Championship; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Lincoln-Way East State Champion football | 7 | | roster includes players, Bradley Abbott, Dominic Adamo, Edward | 8 | | Amankwah, Cade Arthur, Chase Arthur, Aaron Bialka, Devin Bird, | 9 | | Logan Blondin, Zach Brothen, Larry Burks, Bruno Cap, Mike | 10 | | Cardilli, Robert Clark, Alan Cohen, Sam Cohrs, Clark Dilger, | 11 | | Jayden Cook, Joseph Dochee Jr., Dominic Dzioban, David Falb, | 12 | | Ryan Farmer, Mike Florentine, Brady Ford, Nick Fushi, Trevor | 13 | | Glatz, Tyler Gold, Jon Guch, Silas Haberkorn, Jalen Hacha, | 14 | | Jaron Hacha, William Heitner, AJ Henning, Travis Henry, | 15 | | Chauncey Hicks, Danny Hiemer, Martin Hoban, Christian Hoxha, | 16 | | Patrick Isom, Jacob Jaber, Jamal Johnson, Trey Johnson, Kevin | 17 | | Jordan, Chance Joseph, Ben Kingsbury, Alex Knaperek, Matt | 18 | | Kordas, Jake Kramer, Jacob Kronas, Connor Kubik, Kevin Kuchta, | 19 | | James Kwiecinski, Kyle LaValle, John Lianopoulos, Andrew | 20 | | Maciejewski, Owen McAuley, Nolan McGee, Sean McLaughlin, Zach | 21 | | Melby, Wilber Milhouse, Joe Moylan, Jameel Mukarram, Kamal | 22 | | Mukarram, Ken Mysliwiec, Alec Ogarek, Adam Omar, Payton Orth, | 23 | | Anthony Ostrowski, Danny Paliga, Sam Paliga, Maguire | 24 | | Pallissard, Jake Petak, John Petrovich, Owen Phaby, Mason | 25 | | Pierre-Antoine, Kyle Quinn, Connor Rascop, Will Ravetto, Colin |
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| 1 | | Redmond, Dylan Rekart, Zack Richter, Ben Ritter, Will Ronza, | 2 | | Brandon Rusniak, Christian Scheltz, Jake Scianna, Ryan | 3 | | Sheridan, Ty Slager, Bryson Smith, Alex Stepinski, Ryan | 4 | | Stewart, Brennan Stolarek, Sevren Stuckey, Vaughn Teodoro, | 5 | | George Thielen, Sam Tholl, Max Tomczak, Jack Tremblay, Andy | 6 | | Tsamis, JC Vander Kooi, Josh Vargas, Tyler Walenga, Sean Walsh, | 7 | | Tristan Weglarz, Cal Wiechers, Devon Williams, Connor Willis, | 8 | | Adrian Wilson, Joe Winterrowd, Kyle Wolszon, Chase Zawilinski, | 9 | | and RJ Zayed; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Under the leadership of Head Coach Rob Zvonar, the | 11 | | Griffins varsity coaching staff includes assistant coaches | 12 | | Joel Pallissard, Tom Grogan, Ed LeFevour, Lance Lokanc, Matt | 13 | | Mrozek, Dale Augustine, Tom Lynch, Wilber Milhouse, Matt | 14 | | Nelson, John Nestor, Anthony Pignatello, Michael Sazama, | 15 | | Jeremy Vestal, Jake Aleck, and William Cunningham; medical | 16 | | staff includes Dr. Eric Lee and athletic trainers Jeff Carr and | 17 | | Britni Wilson; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 19 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 | | we congratulate the Lincoln-Way East Community High School | 21 | | football team, the Griffins, for winning the 2019 IHSA Class 8A | 22 | | State Championship and wish the program future success; and be | 23 | | it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Head Coach Rob Zvonar and Lincoln-Way East High | 3 | | School Principal Dr. Sharon Michalak.
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