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2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 185
BY SENATOR GATTI
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Benton Middle School for earning the first-ever national
championship in the 2016 National Archery in Schools Program national tournament.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend Benton Middle School for earning the first-ever national championship
3 representing Louisiana in the 2016 National Archery in Schools Program national
4 tournament.
5 WHEREAS, the students of Benton Middle School in Benton, Louisiana participated
6 in the 2016 National Archery in Schools Program national tournament in Louisville,
7 Kentucky, on May 12 through 14, where two hundred six middle school teams from all over
8 the country competed for the first time in this national event; and
9 WHEREAS, Benton Middle School's team was led by eighth graders Aidan Haire,
10 who finished tenth in the boys middle school division, and Abbie Rutledge, who finished
11 fifteenth in the girls middle school division; and
12 WHEREAS, the middle school team scored a total of thirty four hundred four points
13 winning the championship by a slim margin of only eight points over Pulaski Northern
14 Middle School of Kentucky; and
15 WHEREAS, the 2015-2016 Benton Middle School archery team members are: Trip
16 Armer, Lauren Bayne, Lake Bradford, Emma Bunch, Logan Cook, Emily Croall, Landon
17 Crouch, Riley Daniels, Dalton Diel, Brady Duncan, Josh Farris, Kelton Fowler, Kendall
18 Fowler, Tucker Gibbs, Aden Gilcrease, Aidan Haire, Averie Halverston, Nathan Hardin,
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1 Alisha Huffman, Haley Huffman, Conrad Johnson, Emory Kiser, Colby Leeper, Amber
2 Long, Kaitlyn Masters, Kaitlyn Misenheimer, Anna Robins, Abbie Rutledge, Tahlor Walker,
3 and Trey Winkler, all under the direction of coaches Terrie Streetman and Jessica Benoit;
4 and
5 WHEREAS, the Benton Middle School team claimed a world title at last year's world
6 tournament, a year before the national tournament was instituted, and the team is eligible to
7 take part in the National Archery in Schools Program World Tournament in Myrtle Beach,
8 South Carolina, on June 24 through 26, 2016; and
9 WHEREAS, the archery team has been training, practicing, and participating in
10 meets throughout the school year with the goal of competing and winning the first-ever
11 national archery title; and
12 WHEREAS, nearly two hundred Louisiana student archers from fourteen schools
13 participated in the state tournament in March, and nearly thirteen thousand students from
14 across the nation competed for a chance to represent their states at the national tournament;
15 and
16 WHEREAS, the Benton Middle School archery team participates in Archery in
17 Louisiana Schools, a program of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources that offers
18 grants to purchase a portion of the equipment necessary for schools to participate in the
19 National Archery in Schools Program curriculum; and
20 WHEREAS, the National Archery in Schools Program is a target archery program
21 designed to achieve specific education and conservation purposes, it is designed to be taught
22 during the school day in the school gymnasium, and is highly standardized to maintain
23 archery's record of exceptional safety; and
24 WHEREAS, the National Archery in Schools Program for students in grades four
25 through twelve has two specific goals, first to improve student motivation, behavior,
26 attendance, and focus in relation to education while seeking to encourage students to spend
27 more time in the outdoors and to learn outdoor skills that will inspire them to spend more
28 time with wild things in wild places.
29 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
30 does hereby commend Benton Middle School for earning the first-ever national
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1 championship representing Louisiana in the 2016 National Archery in Schools Program
2 national tournament.
3 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
4 Benton Middle School principal, Dr. Kyle Machen.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SR 185 Original 2016 Regular Session Gatti
Commends Benton Middle School on earning the first-ever national championship in the
2016 National Archery in Schools Program national tournament.
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