Title: A resolution congratulating the rifle team of West Virginia University on winning the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rifle Championship.
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
Congratulates the West Virginia University rifle team on winning the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rifle Championship.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 107 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 107

 Congratulating the rifle team of West Virginia University on winning 
 the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rifle Championship.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 30, 2017

   Mrs. Capito (for herself and Mr. Manchin) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Congratulating the rifle team of West Virginia University on winning 
 the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rifle Championship.

Whereas, in 2017, the West Virginia University Mountaineers rifle team (referred 
        to in this preamble as the ``Mountaineers'') completed an undefeated 
        regular season with a record of 12 wins and no losses and won the Great 
        America Rifle Conference championship for the eighth consecutive year;
Whereas, on March 11, 2017, the Mountaineers won the National Collegiate 
        Athletic Association (referred to in this preamble as the ``NCAA'') 
        Rifle Championship;
Whereas the 2017 NCAA Rifle Championship is the fifth consecutive title for the 
        Mountaineers;
Whereas the Mountaineers have now won 19 national championships, securing team 
        NCAA titles in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 
        1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017;
Whereas the Mountaineers have won more national championships than any other 
        rifle program in the United States;
Whereas the Mountaineers shot a championship-record 4723 aggregate score at the 
        2017 NCAA Rifle Championship;
Whereas freshman Milica Babic won the 2017 NCAA air rifle championship;
Whereas freshman Morgan Phillips won the NCAA smallbore title and earned the Top 
        Performer Award of the NCAA Rifle Championship;
Whereas the Mountaineers swept the NCAA individual titles in 2017, the fifth 
        time that shooters from the Mountaineers have swept the individual 
        championships; and
Whereas Head Coach Jon Hammond and all members of the Mountaineers, including 
        Jack Anderson, Will Anti, Milica Babic, Noah Barker, Elizabeth Gratz, 
        Jean-Pierre Lucas, Morgan Phillips, and Ginny Thrasher, completed a 
        record performance to claim the 2017 national title: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the Senate congratulates the West Virginia 
University rifle team on winning the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic 
Association Rifle Championship.
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