Florida Senate - 2015                            (NP)    SR 1646
       
       
        
       By Senator Gardiner
       
       
       
       
       
       13-03463A-15                                          20151646__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution congratulating the Winter Park High
    3         School Wildcats Special Olympics team on winning the
    4         2015 Florida High School Athletic Association
    5         Championship.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, the 2015 Winter Park High School Wildcats Special
    8  Olympics team finished the season as the Florida High School
    9  Athletic Association State Champions, and
   10         WHEREAS, on February 26, 2015, the Winter Park Wildcats
   11  defeated other unified basketball teams, which join people with
   12  and without intellectual disabilities on the same team, and
   13         WHEREAS, the tournament victory marked the team’s first
   14  state championship in the first-ever unified basketball
   15  tournament, the Wildcats emerging with a 4-0 record, and
   16         WHEREAS, exhibiting exemplary leadership and guidance to
   17  the team throughout the season were coaches Amy Connelly-Howard,
   18  Carrie Allen, Deb Hammonds, and Brian DiCarlo, and
   19         WHEREAS, outstanding skill, sportsmanship, and
   20  competitiveness are characteristics that have been consistently
   21  demonstrated by Wildcats Michael Rivera, Hector Machado, Autum
   22  Heltemes, Michael Tuggle, Adam Wright, Ethan Smith, Mark Foust,
   23  John Hotaling, Travis Jones, and Sean Foley, and
   24         WHEREAS, the residents of Winter Park and the surrounding
   25  community admire the hard work and team spirit demonstrated by
   26  the 2015 Winter Park Wildcats Special Olympics Unified
   27  Basketball team during the 2014-2015 season and commend the team
   28  for its many accomplishments, NOW, THEREFORE,
   29  
   30  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   32         That the 2015 Winter Park High School Wildcats Special
   33  Olympics Unified Basketball team is congratulated for winning
   34  the 2015 Florida High School Athletic Association Championship
   35  and recognized for its athletic ability, sportsmanship, and
   36  exemplary citizenship and the outstanding accomplishments of
   37  both players and coaches.