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House Bill 9031




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9031

        By Representatives Littlefield and Byrd






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution commending Brooke Bennett, Olympic

  3         Gold Medalist in the 800-meter freestyle and

  4         member of the 1996 USA Women's Swim Team at the

  5         1996 Atlanta Summer Games.

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  7         WHEREAS, Brooke Bennett won the Gold Medal in the

  8  800-meter freestyle swimming event for the USA Women's Swim

  9  Team during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, and

10         WHEREAS, swimming in her first-ever Olympics, Brooke

11  Bennett took the lead after the 70-meter mark and was never

12  seriously challenged again during her event, and

13         WHEREAS, following the instructions of Coach Peter

14  Banks, she kept her composure, kept her eye on the German

15  swimmers, remembered that she is number one in the world in

16  the 800-meter freestyle, and, swimming her lifetime best at 8

17  minutes 27.89 seconds, Brooke Bennett took the gold, and

18         WHEREAS, she was two seconds faster than Germany's

19  Dagmar Hase, with six of the world's best swimmers following,

20  including Holland's Kirsten Vlieghuis, Germany's Kerstin

21  Kielgass, Norway's Irene Dalby, America's Janet Evans,

22  Holland's Carla Geurts, and Britain's Sarah Hardcastle, and

23         WHEREAS, she dedicated her race to James Lane, her

24  grandfather, who had her swimming under water from poolside to

25  poolside when she was one year old, and

26         WHEREAS, by the age of five, Brooke Bennett was

27  competing in organized swimming with the Tampa Bay Rays and,

28  by the age of nine, she was swimming year-round at the Brandon

29  Swim and Tennis Club for Coach Banks, and

30         WHEREAS, her training includes more than 50 miles of

31  swimming each week, with practices from 5:15 a.m. until 7 a.m.

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  1  and from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. 6 days a week, aerobic and weight

  2  training, and maintaining a nutritious diet, and

  3         WHEREAS, Brooke Bennett, who attends Durant High

  4  School, is the 16-year-old daughter of Keith Bennett and

  5  Rachel Bennett, of Plant City, and

  6         WHEREAS, it is appropriate to recognize Brooke Bennett

  7  for her natural talent, tenacity, and tremendous work ethic,

  8  NOW, THEREFORE,

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10  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

11  Florida:

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13         That Brooke Bennett, Olympic Gold Medalist in the

14  800-meter freestyle swim and member of the 1996 USA Women's

15  Swim Team, is hereby commended for her outstanding

16  accomplishment at the Atlanta Summer Games.

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