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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 499 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 499

 Congratulating the University of St. Thomas Tommies baseball team for 
winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III 
                 Men's Baseball National Championship.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 3, 2009

Ms. McCollum submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Congratulating the University of St. Thomas Tommies baseball team for 
winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III 
                 Men's Baseball National Championship.

Whereas the University of St. Thomas Tommies of St. Paul, Minnesota, defeated 
        the College of Wooster Fighting Scots of Wooster, Ohio, 3 to 2, on May 
        26, 2009, to become the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association 
        (NCAA) Division III Men's Baseball National Champions;
Whereas this win marks the second national title for the University of St. 
        Thomas in baseball, the first was in 2001;
Whereas this baseball title is the University of St. Thomas's 13th national team 
        championship;
Whereas the University of St. Thomas men's baseball team finished the 2008-2009 
        season with a record of 41-13;
Whereas the University of St. Thomas became the third team in the 34 years of 
        Division III baseball championships to win six NCAA playoff elimination 
        games;
Whereas Head Coach Dennis Denning has led the men's baseball team to four NCAA 
        Division III College World Series and was named the ABCA/Rawlings 
        Division III National Coach of the Year in 2001;
Whereas Matt Olson, a junior out fielder from Anoka, was voted the College World 
        Series' Most Outstanding Player;
Whereas pitcher Matt Schuld, a junior from Plymouth, is one of only four 
        Division III players named both All-American and Academic All-American 
        for 2009; and
Whereas the University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 and serves just under 
        11,000 undergraduate and graduate students making it Minnesota's largest 
        independent college or university: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) commends the University of St. Thomas baseball team for 
        winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association 
        Division III Men's Baseball National Championship;
            (2) recognizes the achievements of the players, coaches, 
        students, and staff whose hard work and dedication helped the 
        University of St. Thomas win the championship; and
            (3) directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to 
        transmit a copy of this resolution to the University of St. 
        Thomas President Father  Dennis Dease, Baseball Coach Dennis 
        Denning, and Athletic Director Steve Fritz for appropriate 
        display.
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