Florida Senate - 2016                            (NP)    SR 1780
       
       
        
       By Senator Legg
       
       17-00786A-16                                          20161780__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution congratulating the players and coaches of
    3         the Land O’ Lakes High School Special Olympics Gray
    4         soccer team on their bronze medal win at the 2015
    5         Special Olympics World Summer Games.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, the unified 7-a-side Land O’ Lakes High School
    8  Special Olympics Gray soccer team began training for the Special
    9  Olympics Florida State Games in January 2015, and
   10         WHEREAS, the Land O’ Lakes High School Special Olympics
   11  Gray soccer team won gold at the Special Olympics Florida State
   12  Games and was invited to join more than 6,500 Special Olympics
   13  athletes from 165 countries to compete in the 2015 Special
   14  Olympics World Summer Games, and
   15         WHEREAS, the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games were
   16  held July 25-August 2, 2015, in Los Angeles, where the Land O’
   17  Lakes High School Special Olympics Gray soccer team represented
   18  the United States, competing for an international soccer gold
   19  medal, and
   20         WHEREAS, Land O’ Lakes High School Special Olympics Gray
   21  soccer team members Andrew Ahearn, Haley Eckel, Samantha Frahm,
   22  Tommy Guglielmello, Chris Hale, Cameron Hilgenberg, Kyle Lufcy,
   23  Joseph Tramel, Hassan Shehab, Ordray Smith, Rufus Smith-jones,
   24  and Kyle Townsend took home the bronze medal after competing in
   25  the divisioning round and defeating China 2-1 in the bronze
   26  medal game, and
   27         WHEREAS, the Land O’ Lakes High School Special Olympics
   28  Gray soccer bronze medal team was coached by Vicky King, Phyllis
   29  Crain, and Megan McLean, and
   30         WHEREAS, the Land O’ Lakes High School Special Olympics
   31  Gray soccer team brought great pride and distinction to the
   32  United States and the Sunshine State, NOW, THEREFORE,
   33  
   34  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   35  
   36         That the players and coaches of the Land O’ Lakes High
   37  School Special Olympics Gray soccer team are congratulated on
   38  their bronze medal win at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer
   39  Games.
   40         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   41  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Land O’ Lakes
   42  High School as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida
   43  Senate.