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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 64
BY SENATORS LONG AND RISER
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Charles Smith on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
WHEREAS, Charles Smith successfully coached thirty-three seasons of the Peabody
Magnet High School boys basketball program; and
WHEREAS, with a 1,008 - 176 (.851) career record, he is just the fourth boys
basketball coach in Louisiana history to win one thousand games while claiming his fourth
state runner up finish in 2017-2018; and
WHEREAS, Charles Smith has led the Warhorses to seven state titles (1991, 2000,
2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2017); and
WHEREAS, he was an assistant on the school's first state championship team in
1979; and
WHEREAS, Charles Smith's teams have won twenty-eight district championships,
including nineteen in a row in a streak that ended in 2014; and
WHEREAS, Charles Smith has guided the Peabody Magnet High School boys
basketball team to the Top 28 eighteen times; and
WHEREAS, he has never lost in the first round of the playoffs and has won at least
twenty-two games every season since 1988; and
WHEREAS, Charles Smith was named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association
Coach of the Year four times, most recently in 2016-2017, and ESPN's National Coach of
the Year in 2010; and
WHEREAS, his 2004 and 2010 teams went undefeated and finished the year
nationally ranked; and
WHEREAS, more than sixty of Charles Smith's players have earned athletic
scholarships in his three-decade career.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Charles Smith on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Charles Smith.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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