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2020 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 44
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Ja'Marr Chase on an outstanding 2019 football season
with the LSU Fighting Tigers.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To commend Ja'Marr Chase on an outstanding 2019 football season with the Louisiana State
3 University Fighting Tigers.
4 WHEREAS, Ja'Marr Chase attended Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie,
5 Louisiana, and is the son of Jimmy and Toleah Chase; and
6 WHEREAS, Ja'Marr played wide receiver for the Archbishop Rummel High School
7 Raiders, and as a senior, he hauled in sixty-one receptions for one thousand eleven yards and
8 fifteen touchdowns enroute to breaking all receiving records in a single season for the
9 Raiders; and
10 WHEREAS, some of the most prestigious institutions in college football were
11 interested in adding Ja'Marr to their roster, including universities such as Tennessee, Florida,
12 Auburn, Georgia, and Michigan; and
13 WHEREAS, Ja'Marr signed a letter of intent to play with LSU and as a true freshman
14 in 2018, he played in all thirteen games and made seven starts, finishing the season with
15 twenty-three receptions for three hundred thirteen yards and three touchdowns; and
16 WHEREAS, he returned as a starter in 2019, and led the Football Bowl Subdivision
17 in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns; and
18 WHEREAS, at the end of the regular season, Ja'Marr was awarded the
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1 Fred Biletnikoff Award as the best receiver in college football and was unanimously
2 recognized and named to the 2019 College Football All-America Team; and
3 WHEREAS, his twenty receiving touchdowns set a Southeastern Conference record,
4 and on three separate occasions he eclipsed two hundred receiving yards in a game,
5 including the College Football Playoff championship game record with two hundred
6 twenty-one yards against Clemson University; and
7 WHEREAS, Ja'Marr Chase is a talented Louisiana student and athlete who
8 demonstrates impeccable leadership and a commitment to excellence that is truly
9 commendable; and
10 WHEREAS, it is fitting to herald the achievements of Louisiana's accomplished
11 young men like Ja'Marr Chase, a model student and citizen who represents the best and
12 brightest of the state and who is deserving of the honors bestowed upon him as a member
13 of the Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers football team.
14 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
15 commend and congratulate Ja'Marr Chase on an outstanding 2019 football season as a wide
16 receiver with the Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers, does hereby record for
17 posterity the pride and honor that he brings to his family, friends, community, the state of
18 Louisiana, and the United States of America, and does hereby extend to him best wishes for
19 continued success and happiness in all of his future endeavors.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
21 Ja'Marr Chase.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Nancy Vicknair.
DIGEST
SCR 44 Original 2020 Regular Session Cortez
Commends Ja'Marr Chase on an outstanding 2019 football season with the Louisiana State
University Fighting Tigers.
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