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| 2 | 2 | | *ADF159* 03/16/2025 7:20:55 PM ADF159 |
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| 3 | 3 | | State of Arkansas 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 95th General Assembly 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Regular Session, 2025 SR 48 3 |
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| 7 | 7 | | By: Senator C. Tucker 5 |
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| 10 | 10 | | SENATE RESOLUTION 8 |
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| 11 | 11 | | TO RECOGNIZE PARALYMPIC MEDALIST OLIVIA CHAMBERS OF 9 |
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| 12 | 12 | | LITTLE ROCK FOR HER REMARKABLE GIFTS AND INCREDIBLE 10 |
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| 13 | 13 | | ACHIEVEMENTS THAT BRING RENOWN TO HER AND TO THE 11 |
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| 14 | 14 | | STATE OF ARKANSAS. 12 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Subtitle 15 |
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| 18 | 18 | | TO RECOGNIZE PARALYMPIC MEDALIST OLIVIA 16 |
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| 19 | 19 | | CHAMBERS OF LITTLE ROCK FOR HER 17 |
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| 20 | 20 | | REMARKABLE GIFTS AND INCREDIBLE 18 |
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| 21 | 21 | | ACHIEVEMENTS THAT BRING RENOWN TO HER 19 |
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| 22 | 22 | | AND TO THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. 20 |
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| 24 | 24 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers of Little Rock began swimming when she was 22 |
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| 25 | 25 | | four (4) years old with the Arkansas Dolphins Swim Team, breaking her first 23 |
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| 26 | 26 | | state record at the age of seven (7); and 24 |
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| 28 | 28 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers began losing her vision when she was sixteen 26 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (16) years old, a condition she noticed upon waking up with blurry vision one 27 |
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| 30 | 30 | | day, and which led to a diagnosis of Multiple Mitochondrial Gene Deletion 28 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Syndrome; and 29 |
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| 33 | 33 | | WHEREAS, this condition has progressed over the last five-and-one-half 31 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (5 1/2) years, rendering Olivia Chambers legally blind; and 32 |
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| 36 | 36 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers was the Paralympic Champion, winning gold in 34 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the women's four-hundred-meter freestyle S13 at the 2024 Paralympic Games in 35 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Paris, France; and 36 SR48 |
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| 42 | 42 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers also earned two (2) silver medals in the 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | women's two-hundred-meter individual medley SM13 and women's one -hundred-3 |
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| 44 | 44 | | meter breaststroke SB13 at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, France; and 4 |
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| 46 | 46 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers earned two (2) silver medals and four (4) 6 |
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| 47 | 47 | | bronze medals at the 2023 Para Swimming World Championships in Manchester, 7 |
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| 48 | 48 | | England; and 8 |
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| 50 | 50 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers currently holds seven (7) Para Swimming 10 |
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| 51 | 51 | | American records and two (2) Para Swimming world records, and is an eight -11 |
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| 52 | 52 | | time medalist at World Para Swimming Series meets; and 12 |
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| 54 | 54 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers is an eight -time champion at the United States 14 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Paralympics Swimming National Championships; and 15 |
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| 57 | 57 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers was a bronze medalist in the four -hundred-yard 17 |
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| 58 | 58 | | individual medley at the 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Championships; and 18 |
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| 60 | 60 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers made the Missouri Valley Conference Swimming 20 |
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| 61 | 61 | | and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team in 2023, 2024, and 2025, made the All -21 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Missouri Valley Conference First Team in 2025, earned the Missouri Valley 22 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Conference's Most Courageous Award in 2024, and earned an All -Missouri Valley 23 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Conference Honorable Mention in 2023; and 24 |
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| 66 | 66 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers is a 2017 graduate of the Anthony School and a 26 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 2021 graduate of Mount St. Mary Academy, and now attends the University of 27 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Northern Iowa, where she is in the Honors College with a double major in 28 |
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| 69 | 69 | | biology and psychology; and 29 |
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| 71 | 71 | | WHEREAS, Olivia Chambers is the daughter of Alison and Brad Chambers of 31 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Little Rock, and she has one (1) brother, Mason, and one (1) sister, Emerson, 32 |
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| 74 | 74 | | NOW THEREFORE, 34 |
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| 75 | 75 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY -FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE 35 |
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| 76 | 76 | | STATE OF ARKANSAS: 36 SR48 |
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| 80 | 80 | | THAT the Senate recognize Paralympic medalist Olivia Chambers of Little 2 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Rock for her remarkable gifts and incredible achievements that bring renown 3 |
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| 82 | 82 | | to her and to the State of Arkansas. 4 |
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| 84 | 84 | | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT upon adoption, a copy of this resolution be 6 |
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| 85 | 85 | | presented to Olivia Chambers by the Secretary of the Senate. 7 |
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