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2019 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 80
BY SENATOR LONG
COMMENDAT IONS. Commends Roger Cador on being named to the 2019 Louisiana
Sports Hall of Fame induction class.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To commend Roger Cador on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
3 induction class.
4 WHEREAS, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, Louisiana, each year
5 collaborates with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association in selecting a limited number of
6 sports figures who embody the character, skill, and talents worthy of being named to the hall
7 of fame; and
8 WHEREAS, Roger Cador played baseball and basketball at Southern University in
9 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, leading the Jaguars in hitting in his junior season at .393; and
10 WHEREAS, he was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the tenth round of the 1973
11 Major League Baseball Draft and played five seasons with the Braves organization, reaching
12 Class-AAA in his final season of 1977 as an outfielder; and
13 WHEREAS, Mr. Cador returned to Southern University in 1978 as an assistant
14 baseball coach, moved to assistant basketball coach of the Jaguars in 1980, and remained in
15 that position for four seasons before earning the head coaching job of the baseball team in
16 1985; and
17 WHEREAS, his accomplishments include conference championships, thirteen
18 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Coach of the Year awards, National Collegiate
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1 Athletic Association (NCAA) regional appearances, and three NCAA play-in appearances;
2 and
3 WHEREAS, Mr. Cador has also produced thirty-five players who played
4 professional sports or became coaches, umpires, or scouts, including twenty-three players
5 drafted from 2001 to 2004; and
6 WHEREAS, he completed his career at Southern University with fourteen SWAC
7 titles, eleven NCAA tournament appearances, and two black national titles in 2003 and
8 2005; and
9 WHEREAS, Mr. Cador also holds the distinctions of having coached the first Golden
10 Spikes Award winner to have played at a predominantly black school, Rickie Weeks Jr., in
11 2003, and the first NCAA Division I tournament game win by a black school; and
12 WHEREAS, the successful career of Roger Cador has rightly earned him a place
13 among the many greats in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
14 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
15 commend and congratulate Roger Cador on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall
16 of Fame induction class.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
18 Roger Cador.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Nancy Vicknair.
DIGEST
SCR 80 Original 2019 Regular Session Long
Commends Roger Cador on being named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
induction class.
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