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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 130
BY REPRESENTATIVES CARTER AND LORUSSO
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To commend the LSU women's gymnastics team for an outstanding 2014 season.
WHEREAS, in the 2014 season, the LSU women's gymnastics team had the best
finish in school history and took third place in the NCAA Super Six Finals; and
WHEREAS, the team reached the Super Six for the second consecutive season and
the fourth time overall and broke the LSU record for highest score on three occasions; and
WHEREAS, the women's gymnastics team earned a 198.325 and tied for the highest
score in the nation this season, winning their thirteenth regional title in the program's history
at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional; and
WHEREAS, the team broke the record for the most consecutive meets with at least
a 197 score and ended the year as the only team in the nation to score a 49.0 or higher in
every event in every meet this season; and
WHEREAS, the LSU women's gymnastics team was ranked No.1 for three straight
weeks at the beginning of the Regional Qualifying Score rankings in late February and
earned twenty total All-American honors as a team, the second highest number of any team;
and
WHEREAS, the team led the nation with five gymnasts as First Team All-Americans
at the NCAA Championships, and no other team had more than four gymnasts earn the
distinction; and
WHEREAS, Rheagan Courville captured the second NCAA individual national title
of her career on vault, and it marked the tenth NCAA individual title overall in LSU history
and the eighth in the last nine seasons; and
WHEREAS, Lloimincia Hall set two school records becoming the first LSU gymnast
to win three straight Southeastern Conference floor exercise titles and tallying three perfect
10.0s on floor to reach five for her career, the most 10.0s on floor in LSU history; and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 130
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WHEREAS, Sarie Morrison ended her career with the most uneven bar titles by a
gymnast in LSU history with twenty-eight; and
WHEREAS, a school record eight gymnasts earned All-American Honors this
season, including Kaleigh Dickson, Sydney Ewing, Ashleigh Gnat, Lloimincia Hall, Jessie
Jordan, Sarie Morrison, and Jessica Savona; and
WHEREAS, Courville, Ewing, Gnat, Jordan, and Savona all tallied First Team All-
American Honors at the NCAA Championships, the first time in LSU history that five
gymnasts claimed first team honors at nationals in the same season, and Courville, Dickson,
and Jordan all finished as All-Americans in all-around, the first time three Tigers have
earned all-around All-American distinction in the same season.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend and congratulate the LSU women's gymnastic team for an outstanding 2014
season.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that suitable copies of this Resolution be transmitted
to the LSU women's gymnastics coaches and team.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE