House Bill 9409

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9409

        By Representative Bullard






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution commending Florida A&M

  3         University's Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

  4         Team (Brain Brawl).

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  6         WHEREAS, Florida A&M University's Honda Campus All-Star

  7  Challenge Team (Brain Brawl) battled its way to a third

  8  national championship on Sunday, March 15, at the Walt Disney

  9  Hilton in Orlando, Florida, winning a $50,000 scholarship and

10  an Ed Dwight bronze and marble trophy, and

11         WHEREAS, sixty-three other Historically Black Colleges

12  and Universities (HBCU's) competed, including Howard

13  University, Morehouse College, and Hampton University, and

14         WHEREAS, the team, composed of Shofaetiyah Watson, a

15  graduate political science major from Newport News, Virginia;

16  Natalie T.J. Tindall, a junior Life Gets Better Scholar and

17  print management major from St. Petersburg, Florida; Julian

18  Bryant, a sophomore psychology major from Tallahassee,

19  Florida; Dwight Bullard, a junior history education major from

20  Miami, Florida; and John M. Williams, a freshman Presidential

21  Scholar and business administration major from Houston, Texas,

22  coached by Vivian L. Hobbs, Ph.D., Associate Director, Student

23  Activities, who has coached the team to three national

24  championships, in 1991, 1996, and 1998, scored an

25  unprecedented 2,690 points, the highest in the history of the

26  Honda games, during seven matches, to advance to the Sweet 16

27  as top seed, and

28         WHEREAS, Florida A&M defeated Hampton University,

29  Fayetteville State University, and Oakwood College, only to be

30  matched against a former two-time championship team, Tuskegee

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9409

    546-167-98






  1  Institute, with a final score of Florida A&M 270/Tuskegee 245,

  2  and

  3         WHEREAS, previous Florida A&M championships were over

  4  South Carolina State University in 1996 and West Virginia

  5  State University in 1991, with each win having a different set

  6  of scholars, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

  9  Florida:

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11         That the Florida A&M University's Honda Campus All-Star

12  Challenge Team, composed of Shofaetiyah Watson, Natalie T.J.

13  Tindall, Julian Bryant, Dwight Bullard, and John M. Williams,

14  coached by Vivian L. Hobbs, is commended and applauded for its

15  outstanding contribution to academic excellence through

16  winning the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge.

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