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2022 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 138
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
COMMENDATIONS. Commends and congratulates the students and faculty of the
Lafayette Parish School System for their placement of first-overall in the Louisiana
Governor's Games' 25
th
Annual Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend and congratulate the students and faculty of the Lafayette Parish School
3 System for their placement of first-overall in the Louisiana Governor's Games' 25th
4 Annual Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet.
5 WHEREAS, the Louisiana Governor's Games are the state's premier amateur
6 sporting event; and
7 WHEREAS, the Lafayette Parish School System finished first-overall in the 25th
8 Annual Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet; and
9 WHEREAS, to place first, Lafayette Parish finished with 2,422 points compared to
10 second-place Caddo Parish with 2,338 points, and third-place Evangeline Parish with 2,296
11 points; and
12 WHEREAS, the elementary fitness meet competition involves seven fitness-related
13 events, including the 50-yard dash, the shuttle run, pull-ups, the standing long-jump, curl-ups
14 or sit-ups, the 600-yard run, and the V-sit and reach; and
15 WHEREAS, the top two boys and girls from each parish travel to Baton Rouge
16 annually to compete for the fitness title; and
17 WHEREAS, Lafayette Parish's top performer, Eli Bonnie, led the way with 652
18 individual points; and
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1 WHEREAS, Eli's teammates Landon Moran, Emma Claire Hargrave, and Addison
2 Arnaud anchored their parish to victory; and
3 WHEREAS, since 1997, the elementary fitness meet has served as the Olympic
4 Games for elementary school-aged children in thirty parishes across the state, with more than
5 200,000 student competing for the state fitness crown.
6 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
7 does hereby extend a warm welcome to the members, coaches, and parents of the members
8 of the Lafayette Parish School System's Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet team,
9 and does commend and congratulate them on this amazing achievement.
10 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
11 Lafayette Parish School Board.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Celeste D. Ellis.
DIGEST
SR 138 Original 2022 Regular Session Boudreaux
Commends and congratulates the students and faculty of the Lafayette Parish School System
for their placement of first overall in the Louisiana Governor's Games 25th Annual
Elementary State Championship Fitness Meet.
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