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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 84
BY SENATOR CORTEZ AND REPRESENTATIVE ROBIDEAUX
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend the students and faculty of the Lafayette Parish School System for their first-
overall placement in the Louisiana Governor's Games 23rd Annual Elementary State
Championship Fitness Meet.
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Governor's Games (LGG) are the state's premier amateur
sporting events for young enthusiasts from each parish to participate in annual competitive
and fitness opportunities for all ages, skill levels, and economics demographics; and
WHEREAS, the LGG has more than fifty sporting events that are held in
municipalities across the state including basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, tennis, track and
field, softball, youth baseball, and more; and
WHEREAS, the statewide sporting events are performed over a six-month period,
involving recreation departments where experienced sporting commissioners are chosen to
professionally manage the games and ensure each game has an Olympic-style quality; and
WHEREAS, since 1993, the elementary fitness meet has served as the Olympic
Games for elementary school-aged children in thirty parishes, with more than two hundred
thousand competing for the state fitness crown; and
WHEREAS, the events of the competition for elementary fitness involve the fifty-
yard dash, the shuttle run, pull-ups, the standing long-jump, curl-ups, sit-ups, six-hundred
yard run, and the V-sit and reach; and
WHEREAS, the Lafayette Parish School System finished with two thousand five
hundred three points, compared to Rapides Parish in second place with two thousand four
hundred eighty-six points, and East Baton Rouge Parish in third place with two thousand
four hundred eighty-five points; and
WHEREAS, named as top performer for Lafayette Parish was Karrington Eugene,
who led with six hundred eighty-six individual points, accompanied by his teammates
Conner Prejean, Jaylon John, and Mayah Richard; and
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WHEREAS, this is the first time Lafayette Parish attained the first-overall spot after
placing second, four times in the twenty-three year history of the state championship.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend the students and faculty of the Lafayette Parish School System for their first-
overall placement in the Louisiana Governor's Games 23rd Annual Elementary State
Championship Fitness Meet.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Lafayette Parish School System.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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