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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the House of 3 Representatives wish to congratulate the Tinley Park High 4 School Team on being named the Illinois High 5 School Association State Champions for 2007; and

6 WHEREAS, The team cheered for the Tinley Park football team 7 throughout the season, as well as the team; and

8 WHEREAS, The team attended the Midwest Cheerfest at Carl 9 Sandburg High School on December 3, 2006 and placed first; on 10 January 21, 2007 they competed at the first ever SCC Conference 11 Cheerleading competition and placed second; and

12 WHEREAS, The Illinois High School Association sectionals 13 were held on January 27 and the team from Tinley Park qualified 14 for the State competition with their first place win; and

15 WHEREAS, The State competition was held in Bloomington on 16 February 2, 2007; the top 25 teams begin, and the top 10 are 17 asked to return a second day; Tinley Park took first place on 18 day one; and

19 WHEREAS, The team is coached by Coach Katherine Kowalcze, 20 Ashaunta McCormick, and Vikki Burkhardt; the school principal -2-HR0194LRB095 11555 KXB 33144 r

1 is Dave Kibelkis; and the Athletic Director is Mike Morgan; and

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Cheerleading Team are Ashley 3 Gerber, Katelyn Kwasny, Amanda Murphy, Megan Piotrowski, 4 Courtney Wessman, Christina Cardenas, Jaclyn Christofilos, 5 Ashley Hendzell, Leslie Lapthorne, Brittany Sauerman, Laura 6 Theisinger, Kristina Bailey, Kristin Diddens, Alyssa Malchick, 7 Constance Mucha, and Samantha Mosqueda; therefore, be it

8 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 9 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we 10 congratulate the Tinley Park High School Cheerleading Team on 11 being named the Illinois High School Association State 12 Champions for 2007; and be it further

13 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 14 presented to the Tinley Park High School Cheerleading Team as a 15 symbol of our esteem.