Full Text of HR1091 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Southeast High | 4 | | School Spartans Girls Track and Field team on winning the Girls | 5 | | Class 2A State championship at Eastern Illinois University on | 6 | | May 19, 2012; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The Spartans Girls Track team Coach and Hall of | 8 | | Famer Tom McBride is retiring after 31 years of coaching; he | 9 | | moves into retirement after seeing his team win the State | 10 | | championship 3 years in a row; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The Spartans Girls Track team had many highlights | 12 | | at the State meet, including bringing the gold medal home in | 13 | | the 4 x 100 relay, the 4 x 200 relay, the triple jump, the 100 | 14 | | yard dash, and the 200 yard dash; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The Southeast Spartans Girls Track team also won | 16 | | the City Championship in 2012, the Central State Eight | 17 | | Conference Championship, and the Class 2A Lincoln Sectional | 18 | | Championship; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Charday Crawford swept the 100-meter and | 20 | | 200-meter dashes and also anchored the Spartans' first-place 4 | 21 | | x 100 and 4 x 200 relays; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Southeast junior Brion Portis ran on the 4 x 200 | 2 | | relay, and she also won the triple jump with a career-best | 3 | | 39-feet-2˝ leap on her final attempt; she also finished sixth | 4 | | in the long jump while teammate Shawnise Stelivan finished | 5 | | third; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Southeast edged Chicago Morgan Park 50-49 for last | 7 | | year's championship, and 2 years ago the Spartans won the State | 8 | | championship against Bloomington 57-48; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Coach McBride is a 1974 Southeast graduate who is | 10 | | retiring after 31 years as head coach; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The Spartans lost 2 assistant coaches this year: | 12 | | Dana Roundtree and Don Ewing; the winning year and the State | 13 | | Championship was dedicated in their memory; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Spartans Girls Track team that | 15 | | went to State are: Elizabeth Canady, Justice Collins, Charday | 16 | | Crawford, Halle Devoe, Dami Emuze, Jashay Fisher-Fowler, | 17 | | Kamaria Gage, K'Leesa Gilliam, Tashlyn Hall, Shirley Jones, | 18 | | Brion
Portis, Jada Price, Shawnise Stelivan,
Zaneta White, | 19 | | Shauniera Wilson, and Yakira Washington; the Assistant Coaches | 20 | | are Barb Montgomery, Shirley Bernstein, Leah Kincaid, Danyel | 21 | | Watters, and Reggie Brooks;
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The Spartans Girls Track team are to be commended | 2 | | for their hard work and dedication and Coach Tom McBride is to | 3 | | be commended for leading a successful team to many victories | 4 | | over the years; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 7 | | we congratulate the Southeast High School Spartans Girls Track | 8 | | team on a great season and an impressive championship victory | 9 | | and wish Coach Tom McBride all the best in his retirement; and | 10 | | be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the Southeast High School Spartans Girls Track and | 13 | | Field team and Coach Tom McBride as a symbol of our respect and | 14 | | esteem.
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