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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives congratulate Decatur's Millikin University Big |
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| Blue's womens basketball team on winning the 2005 Division III |
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| NCAA tournament national championship game as they beat |
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| Randolph-Macon in Norfolk, Virginia, by a score of 70-50; and
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| WHEREAS, Their national championship win is the first in |
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| the program's history; and
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| WHEREAS, Leading the Big Blue's womens basketball team are |
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| head coach Lori Kerans and assistant coaches Dick Marshall and |
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| Brianna Morrow; and
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| WHEREAS, The 2005 Big Blue womens basketball members are |
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| Christi Blackburn, Joanna Conner, Stacey Conrad, Abby |
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| Gerlesits, Carsen Himes, Alayna Hirsch, Lindsay Ippel, Lindsey |
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| Koehn, Niki Korda, Tracy Kwasny, Ariel Lamb, Heather Miller, |
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| Audrey Minott, Karin Olson, Andrea Riebock, Kristin Trotter, |
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| Adriane Turner, Angela Vollmer, and Laura Zimmerman; and
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| WHEREAS, Although the Big Blue's finest hour came more than |
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| 900 miles from home, Coach Kerans could already sense the joy |
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| in Decatur; the community supports the womens basketball |
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| program and the university from the heart and respects what the |
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| women basketball players do, and that is the thing of which she |
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| is most proud; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we recognize the talent of these young athletes and their |
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| coaches and congratulate them on their 2005 Division III NCAA |
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| tournament national championship title; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |