Senate Bill sb3084

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3084

    By Senator Lawson





    6-2115-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution commending the Chipola College

  3         Indians 2003-2004 Men's Basketball Team.

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  5         WHEREAS, Chipola Junior College was founded in 1947 and

  6  became a public educational institution on September 1, 1948,

  7  when it joined the state Junior College System, and

  8         WHEREAS, in 1961, Chipola Junior College and its men's

  9  basketball team, "The Indians," hosted the first Florida

10  Junior College Men's Basketball Tournament, and since 1996 has

11  been the exclusive site of the Tournament, and

12         WHEREAS, on August 18, 2003, Chipola Junior College

13  became Chipola College by virtue of beginning to offer 4-year

14  Bachelor of Science Degrees in Science and Mathematics, and

15         WHEREAS, from 1961 to 2002-2004, the Indians Men's

16  Basketball Team won sixteen Panhandle Conference

17  Championships, and seven State Basketball Championships, and

18  made ten appearances in the National Junior College Athletics

19  Association Men's National Basketball Championship Tournament,

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21         WHEREAS, in the course of the 2003-2004 season, the

22  Indians Men's Basketball Team has achieved a win-loss record

23  of 30-3, claimed their seventeenth Panhandle Conference

24  Championship, and on March 6, 2004, won the Florida Community

25  College Activities Association/National Junior College

26  Athletics Association Region VIII Men's Basketball Tournament

27  for their eighth State Basketball Championship, and

28         WHEREAS, in winning the 2003-2004 Tournament, the

29  Indians have won the State Junior or Community College

30  Basketball Championship more than any other Junior or

31  Community College in the State of Florida, and will represent

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3084
    6-2115-04




 1  Region VIII in the 2003-2004 National Junior College Athletics

 2  Association Men's National Basketball Tournament in

 3  Hutchinson, Kansas, opening on March 17, 2004, against the

 4  College of Southern Idaho, and

 5         WHEREAS, the 2003-2004 Indians Men's Basketball Team is

 6  led by Head Coach Chris Jans and Assistant Coaches Greg Heiar

 7  and Micah Biers, and is made up of players Kendaris Pelton,

 8  Mario Joiner, Traion Davis, Leon Woodstock, Deke Thompson,

 9  Kyron Monette, Daniel Dieudonne, Isaiah Jenkins, Shawn Malloy,

10  Je'kel Foster, Brent Crews, Michael Reddick, Vas'shun

11  Newborne, and Chanan Colman, NOW, THEREFORE,

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13  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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15         That the coaches and members of the Chipola College

16  Indians 2003-2004 Men's Basketball Team are commended for

17  their outstanding accomplishments in qualifying to represent

18  Region VIII in the National Junior College Men's Basketball

19  Championship Tournament.

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