SENATE RESOLUTION

                         1999-8611

By Senator Loveland

     WHEREAS, The DeSales Irish from Walla Walla may be on the road to a football legacy by winning their second consecutive B-11 high school football championship; and

     WHEREAS, The winning football trophy will join the seven consecutively-won Class B baseball championship trophies DeSales has earned; and

     WHEREAS, With a student body of seventy-one, DeSales players know and practice the values of community, mutual support, and collective effort; and

     WHEREAS, The student-athletes of the Irish achieved their back-to-back champion success by dedicating long hours after school to practice while still keeping up with their academic studies; and

     WHEREAS, Under the leadership of head coach Pat Graham, the athletes learned the importance of discipline, goal-setting, leadership, fitness, and pride;

     NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Washington State Senate honor and recognize the exceptional achievement reached by the student athletes and coaches at DeSales High School - the 1998 B-11 State Football Champions.

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate do hereby immediately transmit a copy of this resolution to Pat Graham, head football coach at DeSales High School.

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate,

do hereby certify that this is a true and

correct copy of Senate Resolution 1999-8611,

adopted by the Senate February 19, 1999.

TONY M. COOK

Secretary of the Senate