Full Text of HR0547 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Kankakee Community College (KCC) women's | 3 | | softball team, the Cavaliers, has won its first national
title, | 4 | | clinching the 2015 National Junior College Athletic | 5 | | Association (NJCAA) Division II Softball National
Championship | 6 | | with a 5-1 victory over East Central Community College of | 7 | | Decatur, Mississippi; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The Cavaliers finished their championship season | 9 | | with an
exceptional record of 45 wins and only 6 losses; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Cavaliers softball team includes 7 freshmen: | 11 | | Erin Walker of Tuscola; Ashley
Adermann of Wilmington; Brittany | 12 | | Hay of Georgetown; Bailee Porter of Bourbonnais;
Lindsey Snyder | 13 | | of Brighton; Andrea Beal of Elgin; and Kyleigh Payne of | 14 | | Bourbonnais; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The Cavaliers team includes 8 sophomores: Meghan | 16 | | Gill of Bourbonnais;
Kayla Snider of Silver Lake, Indiana; | 17 | | Mackenzi Spittal of Bolingbrook; Monet Alexander of
| 18 | | Plainfield; Stephanie Sanderson of Homer; Courtney Posing of | 19 | | Manteno; Charlie Nolen of Lucerne, Indiana; and Brittany | 20 | | Plimmer of Bloomingdale; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, This year's championship for the Cavaliers is also |
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| 1 | | the first championship
for Coach Dennis Clark; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Coach Clark was inducted into the NJCAA Softball | 3 | | Hall of Fame in December of 2014; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In his career, Coach Clark has amassed 1,176 | 5 | | victories with the Cavaliers; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Also coaching the Cavaliers to victory this year | 7 | | were
Assistant Coaches Bill Wending, Jim Grimes, and Heather | 8 | | Wilken; therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 11 | | congratulate the ladies of the Kankakee Community College | 12 | | Cavaliers Softball Team, Coach
Clark, and Assistant Coaches | 13 | | Wending, Grimes, and Wilken on their exceptional season and | 14 | | their
first NJCAA Division II Championship; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to the Kankakee Community
College Cavaliers softball | 17 | | players and coaches as a token of our esteem.
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