Florida Senate - 2016                            (NP)    SR 1388
       
       
        
       By Senator Bean
       
       4-00624-16                                            20161388__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution congratulating Coach Charles “Corky”
    3         Rogers on his induction into the National High School
    4         Hall of Fame.
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, The Bolles School is an independent college
    7  preparatory school in Jacksonville, and
    8         WHEREAS, Charles “Corky” Rogers has coached The Bolles
    9  School Bulldogs football team for 26 years, and
   10         WHEREAS, Charles “Corky” Rogers has led the Bulldogs to a
   11  state record of 10 state championships, has a total of 11 state
   12  championships over the course of his career, and has the most
   13  wins of any high school football coach in Florida history, and
   14         WHEREAS, Charles “Corky” Rogers ranks fifth in the nation
   15  in career wins among active coaches, with 444 wins, and sixth
   16  among all coaches in the history of high school football in the
   17  United States, and
   18         WHEREAS, the stellar achievement of Charles “Corky” Rogers
   19  has been recognized with his induction into the Florida Athletic
   20  Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Florida High School
   21  Athletic Hall of Fame, the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame, the Robert
   22  E. Lee High School Hall of Fame, and the Florida Sports Hall of
   23  Fame, and
   24         WHEREAS, on July 2, 2015, Charles “Corky” Rogers was
   25  inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in a
   26  ceremony in New Orleans, Louisiana, NOW, THEREFORE,
   27  
   28  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   29  
   30         That we recognize the stellar accomplishment of Coach
   31  Charles “Corky” Rogers on the football field and congratulate
   32  him on his induction into the National High School Hall of Fame.
   33         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   34  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Coach Charles
   35  “Corky” Rogers as a tangible token of the sentiments of the
   36  Florida Senate.