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[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 134 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 134

Congratulating the University of South Carolina women's basketball team 
for winning the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 
             I Women's Basketball Tournament Championship.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2017

    Mr. Scott (for himself and Mr. Graham) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                           and Transportation

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                               RESOLUTION

 
Congratulating the University of South Carolina women's basketball team 
for winning the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 
             I Women's Basketball Tournament Championship.

Whereas, on April 2, 2017, at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, the 
        University of South Carolina Gamecocks won the national title game for 
        the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's 
        Basketball Tournament over the Mississippi State Bulldogs by a score of 
        67 to 55;
Whereas the University of South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team won 
        the 2017 Southeastern Conference championship;
Whereas the University of South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team head 
        coach Dawn Staley, a 3-time Olympian who was elected to carry the United 
        States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics, was 
        elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, and is 
        the new head coach of the United States women's national basketball 
        team, joins Carolyn Peck as the only 2 African-American female head 
        coaches to lead a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I 
        basketball team to a national title;
Whereas this is the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I 
        Women's Basketball Tournament Championship for the University of South 
        Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team, who finished the season with 
        34 wins and 4 losses;
Whereas A'ja Wilson, who is from Columbia, South Carolina, and an alumnae of 
        Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, was named Southeastern Conference 
        player of the year and the National Collegiate Athletic Association 
        Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Championship most valuable 
        player;
Whereas the University of South Carolina has been a leader on the Southeastern 
        Conference Academic Honor Roll for the last 10 years;
Whereas, each year, University of South Carolina student-athletes support 
        approximately 100 events and organizations for a total of more than 
        5,000 hours of service;
Whereas A'ja Wilson received First Team All-America recognition from the Women's 
        Basketball Coaches Association and senior center Alaina Coates earned an 
        All-America honorable mention;
Whereas junior Kaela Davis was a College Sports Information Directors of America 
        Academic All-District selection;
Whereas University of South Carolina student-athletes earned a departmental 
        grade point average of 3.245 for the Fall 2016 semester, the 20th-
        consecutive semester in which Gamecock student-athletes have combined 
        for a grade point average above 3.0; and
Whereas the University of South Carolina is ranked number 1 in the United States 
        for attendance at women's basketball games: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) congratulates the University of South Carolina women's 
        basketball team for winning the 2017 National Collegiate 
        Athletic Association Division I Women's Basketball Tournament 
        Championship; and
            (2) recognizes the achievements of--
                    (A) the team's players, coaches, and staff, whose 
                hard work and dedication helped the University of South 
                Carolina women's basketball team win that Championship; 
                and
                    (B) the dedicated faculty and staff of the 
                University of South Carolina for building an 
                educational environment that has helped University of 
                South Carolina student-athletes to thrive.
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