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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 34
BY SENATOR PEACOCK
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Mikaylah Williams, a junior at Parkway High School, on being selected the
2021-2022 Gatorade Louisiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
WHEREAS, the Gatorade Louisiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year award
recognizes outstanding athletic excellence as well as high standards of academic
achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court; and
WHEREAS, Mikaylah Williams excels in athletics and academics and has earned
a 4.0 grade point average in addition to her superb athletic performance; and
WHEREAS, Miss Williams is a junior guard that led the Parkway High Panthers to
a 33-2 win-loss record and a berth in the Class 5A state championship game at the time of
her selection; and
WHEREAS, Mikaylah Williams averaged 22.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and
2.2 steals per game during thirty-five games; and
WHEREAS, at the age of sixteen, Mikaylah Williams was named the Most Valuable
Player of the 2021 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup in Hungary where she led the United States
to the gold medal and scored fifty-six points overall; and
WHEREAS, Miss Williams is a finalist for the Naismith Award and is ranked as the
nation's number one recruit in the Class of 2023 by HoopGurlz and ProspectsNation.com and
she entered the state final with more than sixteen hundred points in her prep basketball
career; and
WHEREAS, Mikaylah Williams has served her community as a member of the
National Beta Club, volunteered locally at a women and children's shelter on behalf of
Operation Christmas Child, participated in the "Clash of the Cans" food drive, made toiletry
bags for the homeless, contributed to local food banks, participated in the teen youth group
at her church, and donated her time and resources by creating Christmas cards for veterans'
homes, firefighters, and police officers; and
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WHEREAS, she is known as a great player with a tremendous work ethic and is one
of the strongest guards that has played high school girls basketball; and
WHEREAS, since the program's inception in 1985, the Gatorade Players of the Year
award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships and many
have also turned into pillars in their communities by becoming coaches, business owners,
and educators; and
WHEREAS, Mikaylah Williams continues to develop her talents and abilities after
winning the coveted 2021-2022 Gatorade Louisiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year
award and is destined to become an adult pillar of her community.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Mikaylah Williams on winning the 2021-2022 Gatorade Louisiana Girls
Basketball Player of the Year award.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Miss Mikaylah Williams of Parkway High School in Bossier City, Louisiana.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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