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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 184
BY REPRESENTATIVE COX
A RESOLUTION
To commend Coach Pete Boudreaux on his induction into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
and his outstanding athletic career as track and cross country coach at Catholic High
School of Baton Rouge.
WHEREAS, Pete Boudreaux graduated from Catholic High School of Baton Rouge
in 1959 and has been the head track coach at his alma mater since 1968; and
WHEREAS, in the early 1970s, he also became the head coach of the cross country
team; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux has also served as the Catholic High athletic director;
and
WHEREAS, through 2013, his teams have won thirty-nine state championship titles,
thirteen in outdoor track, ten in indoor track, and sixteen in cross country, and his teams have
achieved state runner up twenty-one times; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux's track teams have recorded the four highest scores
ever by a 5A track and field team and the three best scores recorded in 5A cross country; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux's 2010 track team set the current record of 104 points
and his 2009 team scored 101 points; and
WHEREAS, the Catholic High Bears had the low winning score of 33 points in cross
country in 2009; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux's 1991 squads became Louisiana's first to sweep cross
country, indoor track, and outdoor track in the same school year; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux's 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 squads repeated the feat
becoming the first school to sweep all track and field events two years in a row; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux was inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports
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WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux served as the president of the Louisiana High School
Coaches Association in 1981; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux has received Coach of the Year honors fourteen times
and regional honors four times, and in 2010 he was voted the National High School Coach
of the Year by USA Track and Field; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux has worked as an official at SEC and Big 12 track
and field championships and at the Olympic Trials; and
WHEREAS, Coach Boudreaux in 2002, was co-meet director for the NCAA
Championships; and
WHEREAS, due to his outstanding career, Coach Pete Boudreaux will be inducted
into the 2014 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Coach Pete Boudreaux on his induction into
the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame on his outstanding athletic career as head track coach and
cross country coach at Catholic High School of Baton Rouge.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Coach Pete Boudreaux.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES