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Regular Session, 2013 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 139
BY SENATOR LONG
A RESOLUTION
To commend Anna Koll for being named to the 2013 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
Induction Class.
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, Louisiana, was
accepted in the state museum system in the 2003 Regular Legislative Session, setting the
stage for Louisiana and the city of Natchitoches to collaborate with the Louisiana Sports
Writers Association to develop a new museum; and
WHEREAS, Anna Koll is one of nine members to be inducted during the grand
opening of the twenty-three million dollar museum, which will display, for the first time,
state of the art exhibits showcasing Louisiana's remarkable sports history and culture; and
WHEREAS, Anna Koll is described as New Orleans' greatest all-around female
athlete in the 1920s and 1930s by The Times-Picayune; and
WHEREAS, she won the southern women's tennis championship twice, the
Louisiana women's title numerous times, and state titles in Mississippi, Alabama, and
Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, she set the Southern Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) records in the
eighty-meter high hurdles with thirteen point zero and the broad jump with fifteen-eleven,
along with the fifty-yard dash and the one hundred and twenty yard hurdles; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Koll was part of the New Orleans team which won the Southern
AAU championship for four straight years from 1926-1929, winning one individual title; and
WHEREAS, she helped the Wiltz gymnasium win the AAU indoor baseball title
three straight years, leading the league in batting each season; and
WHEREAS, she played on the Wiltz basketball team and made the all-state team for
three consecutive years; and
WHEREAS, even after her death in 1988 at the age of eighty-three, Anna Koll is still
considered to be a Louisiana version of versatile female Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias. SR NO. 139 ENROLLED
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Anna Koll for being named to the 2013 Louisiana Sports Hall of
Fame Induction Class.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
family of Anna Koll and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE