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Regular Session, 2011
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 122
BY REPRESENTATIVE CARTER AND SENATORS ADLEY, ALARI O, AMEDEE,
APPEL, BROOME, CHABERT, CHAISSON, CHEEK, CLAITOR, CROWE,
DONAHUE, DORSEY, ERDEY, GAUTREAUX, GUILLORY, HEITMEIER,
JACKSON, KOSTELKA, LAFLEUR, LONG, MARIONNEAUX, MARTINY,
MCPHERSON, MICHOT, MILLS, MORRELL, MORRISH, MOUNT, MURRAY,
NEVERS, PERRY, PETERSON, QUINN, RISER, SHAW, SMITH, THOMPSON,
WALSWORTH, AND WILLARD-LEWIS
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To commend Yvette Girouard, head coach of the Louisiana State University softball team,
for her monumental achievements upon the end of her extraordinary coaching career.
WHEREAS, Yvette Girouard has been a key figure in the sport of softball for more
than three decades, has been vitally instrumental in the evolution of the sport, and is retiring
as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the game; and
WHEREAS, a native of Broussard, Louisiana, Coach Girouard attended Comeaux
High School and earned a bachelor of science degree in 1976 in health and physical
education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where as a college volleyball
player, she was named the 1976 Female Athlete of the Year; and
WHEREAS, after college graduation, Coach Girouard began the softball program
at Lafayette High School and served as head coach there as well as at Comeaux High
School; and
WHEREAS, prior to her eleven years at LSU, Coach Girouard spent twenty years
coaching at her alma mater, ULL, where she started the softball program; and
WHEREAS, in Coach Girouard's eleven-year career at LSU, her list of
accomplishments is long and impressive, and LSU softball's phenomenal success is a tribute
to this exceptional coach; and
WHEREAS, Coach Girouard holds the distinction of being one of only three coaches
to take two programs to the Women's College World Series; she led her Tigers to two
appearances and the Ragin' Cajuns of ULL to three appearances there; and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 122
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WHEREAS, Coach Girouard, a true ambassador for softball, has made the LSU
softball program one of the finest in the country, and it was during her tenure as coach that
LSU saw the opening of Tiger Park, one of the nation's premier softball stadiums; and
WHEREAS, Coach Girouard is widely recognized as a truly outstanding coach and
has received many prestigious honors on the state, conference, and national levels, including
her 2005 induction into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame and
numerous well-deserved coach of the year awards; and
WHEREAS, in Coach Girouard's final season at LSU, the team finished with an
overall record of forty victories and only eighteen losses and an appearance in the NCAA
Regional tournament; and
WHEREAS, as she leaves LSU after an extremely productive and successful career,
Yvette Girouard merits a special measure of commendation for her unparalleled legacy of
excellence in coaching; and
WHEREAS, Coach Girouard's retirement marks a milestone in the career of this
Louisiana legend, and the legislature wishes to give her appropriate recognition as she
embarks upon new challenges and begins the next chapter of her life.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Yvette Girouard upon her retirement as head coach of the Louisiana State
University softball team, does hereby express to her enduring appreciation for her dedicated
and highly effective leadership of LSU's softball program and for the honor and distinction
she has brought to the state of Louisiana throughout the course of her extraordinary career,
and does hereby extend to her every good wish for continued success and happiness in her
future endeavors.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Yvette Girouard.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE