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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 86
BY SENATORS THOMPSON AND W ALSWORTH
A RESOLUTION
To commend the University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk Water Ski team upon
winning the 2017 National Collegiate Water Ski Association National
Championship.
WHEREAS, the 2017-2018 University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk Water Ski
Team finished the season with a first place finish at the National Collegiate Water Ski
Association's thirty-ninth national championship held at Bennett's Water Ski and Wakeboard
School in Zachary, Louisiana, on October 19-21, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the Warhawk team is comprised of a group of outstanding skiers who
displayed skill and talent on and off the water and whose performance allowed the team to
earn a total of twelve thousand one hundred sixty-five points and the school's twenty-eighth
consecutive national championship title; and
WHEREAS, team member Hanna Straltsova set the new collegiate women's jump
record with a distance of one hundred fifty-nine feet, placed first in the slalom event with
a score of 3.5 buoys at thirty-eight feet off, placed third in the trick event with a score of four
thousand fifty points, and placed first in women's overall; and
WHEREAS, Siani Oliver placed second in the championship women's slalom event
with a score of 3.0 buoys at thirty-eight feet off; and
WHEREAS, Frederick Winter placed first in the championship men's slalom event
with a score of 2.5 buoys at forty-one feet off; and
WHEREAS, Thomas Poole placed second in the championship men's slalom event
with a score of 4.0 buoys at thirty-nine and one-half feet off and placed fifth in men's
overall; and
WHEREAS, Danylo Filchenko placed second in the championship men's trick event
with a score of six thousand seventy points and placed fourth in men's overall; and
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WHEREAS, Aliaksandra Danisheuskaya placed second in the championship
women's jump event with a score of one hundred fifty-six feet, placed fourth in the women's
trick event with a score of three thousand nine hundred ten points, and placed second in
women's overall; and
WHEREAS, Emma Brunel placed fourth in the championship women's jump event
with a score of one hundred thirty-eight feet and placed fifth in women's overall; and
WHEREAS, Taylor Garcia placed first in the men's jump event with a score of one
hundred eighty-eight feet, placed fifth in the men's slalom event with a score of 2.0 buoys
at thirty-nine and one-half feet off, and placed first in men's overall; and
WHEREAS, the hard work, discipline, and individual performances of the Warhawk
ski team has rightly earned them the National Collegiate Water Ski Association National
Championship title for the twenty-eighth consecutive year.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend and congratulate the University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk
Water Ski team upon winning the 2017 National Collegiate Water Ski Association National
Championship.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk Water Ski team, Hanna Straltsova,
Siani Oliver, Frederick Winter, Thomas Poole, Danylo Filchenko,
Aliaksandra Danisheuskaya, Emma Brunel, and Taylor Garcia.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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