Full Text of HR0751 094th General Assembly
HR0751 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, When the 2005 season concluded, the girls | 3 |
| volleyball team of Breese Mater Dei High School, the Lady | 4 |
| Knights, again earned their way into the upper echelon of | 5 |
| Illinois girls volleyball teams; and
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| WHEREAS, The Lady Knights' accomplishments in volleyball | 7 |
| were achieved by hard work, in practices and in games, by team | 8 |
| members from each class and in each playing position; | 9 |
| specifically, the squad included: two seniors, Amanda Rickhoff | 10 |
| (MH) and Whitney Voss (L), the team captains; three juniors, | 11 |
| Larissa Huels (S), Ellen Huelsmann (L), and Becca Lamb (OH); | 12 |
| seven sophomores, Katie Becker (OH), Megan Gebke (L), Jessica | 13 |
| Hemann (MH), Erin Kasson (OH), Jamie Loepker (OH), Kayla | 14 |
| Schroeder (OH), and Lindsay Winkeler (S); and three freshman, | 15 |
| Cortney Crocker (L), Morgan Dall (MH), and Laura Thole (OH); | 16 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, In his twenty-ninth year as the Breese Mater Dei | 18 |
| girls volleyball coach, Fred Rakers notched another winning | 19 |
| season in 2005 with a record of 35 wins and only 5 loses, | 20 |
| thereby improving his overall coaching record at Breese Mater | 21 |
| Dei to 846 wins, 157 losses, and 5 ties, for an overall winning | 22 |
| percentage of .839 in the 1008 games of the Lady Knights that | 23 |
| he coached; and
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| WHEREAS, In guiding the team to another excellent season, | 25 |
| Coach Rakers was joined on the bench by Assistant Coach Erin | 26 |
| Kopec; and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout the season, the Lady Knights were | 28 |
| heartened, home and away, by support from their loyal fans; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) | 30 |
| Class AA Girls Volleyball Tournament began with teams from 284 |
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| high schools across Illinois; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, The Lady Knights steadily advanced in the | 3 |
| tournament and garnered a Regional title at Marion, a Sectional | 4 |
| title at Salem, and a Super-Sectional title at O'Fallon; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, On November 11-12, 2005, the IHSA held the State | 6 |
| Final Tournament in Class AA Girls Volleyball in the Redbird | 7 |
| Arena at Illinois State University; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, In the quarterfinal round of the IHSA tournament, | 9 |
| the Lady Knights
valiantly battled the Joliet Catholic Academy | 10 |
| Angels for the right to advance to the semi-final round, but | 11 |
| the Lady Knights, after outlasting Joliet Catholic Academy by a | 12 |
| score of 27-25 in the first game, fell to the Angels in the | 13 |
| next two games; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, The Mater Dei Lady Knights concluded another | 15 |
| excellent season with a record of 35 wins and only 5 losses; | 16 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 |
| we congratulate the Lady Knights from Breese Mater Dei High | 20 |
| School on their impressive volleyball season and participation | 21 |
| in the quarter-final round of the IHSA Class AA Girls | 22 |
| Volleyball Tournament; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 24 |
| presented to the Lady Knights Head Coach Fred Rikers as an | 25 |
| expression of our esteem.
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