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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Southeastern Illinois College forensics squad |
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| decisively won the 2005 Phi Rho Pi division I overall |
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| cumulative national championship; and
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| WHEREAS, The 12-member team amassed 260 points, a team |
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| record, to defeat 72 other schools in one of the most |
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| competitive tournaments in the recent history of Phi Rho Pi, |
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| the national forensics organization; this is the third national |
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| championship in individual events competition won by the |
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| Southeastern squad; it is only the second time the school has |
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| won the overall championship; the first time was in 1986; and
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| WHEREAS, Division I overall championship is the cumulative |
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| team score that includes points in three categories, including |
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| individual events, reader's theater, and debate; Southeastern |
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| participates only in individual events, but surpassed the other |
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| teams which had entered in all three categories; and
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| WHEREAS, The team broke many other school records covering |
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| the 32-year history of the program; there were 34 events that |
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| made it into semi-final rounds, and the old record was 31 in |
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| 1996; the conversion of semi-final breaks into finals was 19 |
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| for 56% resulting in a conversion to 17 gold medals, and the |
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| old record was 13 gold medals in 1997; every team member |
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| advanced into finals and brought home a gold medal; that has |
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| never happened in the history of the program; and
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| WHEREAS, The coaches of the team are Paul Cummins and Johan |
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| Rice; Emily Rollman is the assistant coach; team members |
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| include Amie Naas, Bethany Wilson, Amy Oglesby, Katie Richey, |
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| Krista Farmer, Jessica Brasier, Ethan Fife, Travis Boots, Josh |
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| McCluskey, Dug Hall, Michael Steudeman, and Stephanie |
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| Youroukous; and
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