Bill Text: FL H9065 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: UF Women's Swimming and Diving Team

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-30 - Died, reference deferred, companion bill(s) passed, see SR 2836 (Adopted) [H9065 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H9065-Introduced.html

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HR 9065

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution commending the University of Florida Women's
3	Swimming and Diving Team for winning the 2010 NCAA
4	Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.
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6	WHEREAS, the University of Florida Gators have long been
7	recognized for their tradition of excellence in all
8	intercollegiate sports, and
9	WHEREAS, the University of Florida Women's Swimming and
10	Diving Team has continued this tradition of athletic excellence,
11	achieved and maintained through their hard work, determination,
12	and a team-first attitude, and
13	WHEREAS, the Florida Gators last won the national title in
14	1982 in the inaugural NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving
15	Championships, and
16	WHEREAS, the University of Florida Women's Swimming and
17	Diving Team on Saturday, March 20, 2010, at the Boilermaker
18	Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Indiana, scored 382 points,
19	beating Stanford University by 2.5 points in the second-closest
20	win in the history of the competition, and
21	WHEREAS, on the way to the team victory, twelve student-
22	athletes under Head Swimming Coach Gregg Troy earned All-America
23	status, shattering five Florida records and earning two national
24	titles, and
25	WHEREAS, Head Coach Gregg Troy was named 2010 NCAA Women's
26	Coach of the Year, and
27	WHEREAS, under Head Coach Gregg Troy and Coaches Donnie
28	Craine, Pete Knox, Anthony Nesty, Leah Martindale Stancil, and
29	Martyn Wilby, the University of Florida Women's Swimming and
30	Diving Team came together to form a championship team, with
31	Coach Troy remarking, "[t]his really was a team effort, and
32	there was no room for error," NOW, THEREFORE,
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34	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
35	Florida:
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37	That the House of Representatives salutes the University of
38	Florida Women's Swimming and Diving Team for winning the 2010
39	National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I
40	Championships, its second national title in the history of the
41	University of Florida.
42	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
43	presented to the University of Florida and to each coach and
44	member of the University of Florida Women's Swimming and Diving
45	Team as a tangible token of the sentiments expressed herein.

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