R E S O L U T I O N 1-1 WHEREAS, The Duncanville High School Pantherettes captured 1-2 the Class 5A State Basketball Championship with a hard-fought 44-33 1-3 win over the Alief Elsik High School Lady Rams on March 1, 1997; 1-4 and 1-5 WHEREAS, Playing in front of a crowd of 8,140 in Austin's 1-6 Frank Erwin Center, the Pantherettes got off to a slow start before 1-7 coming on strong in the second half to beat a tough Alief Elsik 1-8 team; the win earned Duncanville High School its fifth state crown, 1-9 which tied the school for the state record, and capped off a 1-10 school-record 40-0 season; and 1-11 WHEREAS, The championship is the first under Head Coach Sara 1-12 Hackerott, who served as an assistant to the late Sandra Meadows, 1-13 the legendary Duncanville basketball coach who helped establish the 1-14 school's exemplary basketball program; and 1-15 WHEREAS, Coach Hackerott has schooled her young players in 1-16 hardcourt fundamentals while at the same time instilling in them 1-17 the virtues of academic excellence and good sportsmanship, and she 1-18 was ably supported in her efforts by Assistant Coach Christie Capps 1-19 Sparks, team managers Sharyn Rogers and Dominique Wright, student 1-20 trainer Sharonda Houston, and athletic trainers Dave Burton and 1-21 Julie Torre; and 1-22 WHEREAS, Dedication to excellence both individually and as a 1-23 team has been a hallmark of the Pantherettes, whose team members 1-24 include Jessica Barr-Long, Andrea Bentley, Briana Brown, Tamika 2-1 Catchings, Angela Francis, Dana Godfrey, Alana Griffin, Julie 2-2 Jespersen, Kenya Larkin, Portia Lowe, Remy McElroy, Jalie Mitchell, 2-3 Shunda Murray, Dawn Owens, and LaDonna Palmer; and 2-4 WHEREAS, These talented young women, as well as their coaches 2-5 and staff, are a tremendous source of pride for the students and 2-6 faculty of Duncanville High School and their many supporters in the 2-7 community, and this most recent accomplishment has rightfully 2-8 earned them special legislative recognition; now, therefore, be it 2-9 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 75th Texas 2-10 Legislature hereby congratulate Head Coach Sara Hackerott and the 2-11 Duncanville High School Pantherettes on winning the 1997 Class 5A 2-12 State Basketball Championship; and, be it further 2-13 RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be 2-14 prepared for the team as an expression of high regard by the Texas 2-15 House of Representatives. Davis Laney Gutierrez Oliveira Alexander Haggerty Olivo Allen Hamric Palmer Alvarado Hartnett Patterson Averitt Hawley Pickett Bailey Heflin Pitts Berlanga Hernandez Place Bonnen Hightower Price Bosse Hilbert Puente Brimer Hilderbran Rabuck Burnam Hill Ramsay Carter Hinojosa Rangel Chavez Hirschi Raymond Chisum Hochberg Reyna of Bexar Christian Hodge Reyna of Dallas Clark Holzheauser Rhodes Coleman Horn Rodriguez Cook Howard Roman Corte Hunter Sadler Counts Hupp Seaman Crabb Isett Serna Craddick Jackson Shields Cuellar Janek Siebert Culberson Jones of Lubbock Smith Danburg Jones of Dallas Smithee Davila Junell Solis Davis Kamel Solomons Delisi Keel Staples Denny Keffer Stiles Driver King Swinford Dukes Krusee Talton Dunnam Kubiak Telford Dutton Kuempel Thompson Edwards Lewis of Tarrant Tillery Ehrhardt Lewis of Orange Torres Eiland Longoria Turner of Coleman Elkins Luna Turner of Harris Farrar McCall Uher Finnell McClendon Van de Putte Flores McReynolds Walker Gallego Madden West Galloway Marchant Williams Garcia Maxey Williamson Giddings Merritt Wilson Glaze Moffat Wise Goodman Moreno Wohlgemuth Goolsby Mowery Wolens Gray Naishtat Woolley Greenberg Nixon Yarbrough Grusendorf Oakley Zbranek _______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 529 was adopted by the House on April 16, 1997, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House