2022 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 195
BY SENATORS STINE AND ABRAHAM
A RESOLUTION
To commend Justin Hill on becoming the winningest coach in McNeese baseball history.
WHEREAS, Justin Hill is a native of West Monroe, Louisiana, and this year became
the winningest coach in McNeese baseball history; and
WHEREAS, the McNeese Cowboys have won thirty or more games in six of Hill's
eight years as head coach of the McNeese baseball team, even with the 2020 season cut short
due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS, McNeese's thirty-win season in 2014 was the program's first in nearly
five years and the Cowboys compiled seventeen conference victories, its best since 2012;
and
WHEREAS, the Cowboys picked up two wins in the 2014 Southland Conference
Tournament, which was a team best since picking up two such victories in 2010; and
WHEREAS, Justin Hill became the first head coach since 1998 to win thirty or more
games in his first season as the head coach and the first coach since Todd Butler (2000-2003)
to win in his debut game when the team picked up a victory over Chicago State; and
WHEREAS, during the 2014 season, five school records, six National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) records, and one Southland Conference record was either tied
or broken by the McNeese baseball team; and
WHEREAS, in 2015, with a record of thirty-two wins and twenty-five losses, the
Cowboys recorded another thirty or more winning season for the seventeenth time in the
program's history and the team recorded back-to-back thirty-win seasons for the first time
since the 2002 and 2003 seasons; and
WHEREAS, with the 2015 season, Hill became only the third McNeese head coach
to guide the team to back-to-back thirty-win seasons in his first two seasons and he became
the second fastest coach in program history to score sixty or more wins; and
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WHEREAS, in 2017, Hill led the Cowboys to the 2017 Southland Conference
regular season title with twenty-two conference wins and eight losses, a school record for
conference victories, and a final season record of thirty-seven wins and twenty losses; and
WHEREAS, at the conclusion of the season, Justin Hill was named the 2017
Southland Conference Coach of the Year, the first in his career; and
WHEREAS, in the 2019 season, the Cowboys posted a record of thirty-five wins and
twenty-six losses and the season included a shutout win over then nationally ranked
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; and
WHEREAS, McNeese entered the 2019 Southland Conference Tournament as the
fifth seed and swept through the slate with an unblemished four and zero-record to capture
the team's first NCAA tournament appearance since the 2003 season; and
WHEREAS, the Cowboys' baseball team again won the 2021 Southland Conference
Tournament with a perfect four and zero record, extending Hill's post-season conference
tournament winning streak to eight games, and the team made a second consecutive NCAA
tournament appearance; and
WHEREAS, in 2022, the McNeese Cowboys won the Southland Conference regular
season championship; they finished the season with a record of thirty-four wins and twenty-
two losses; and the team played in the very first Southland Conference Baseball
Championship Series; and
WHEREAS, for the second time in his career history, Justin Hill was named the 2022
Clay Gould Southland Conference Coach of the Year and became the winningest coach in
the history of the McNeese baseball program.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend McNeese University baseball coach Justin Hill on becoming the
winningest coach in McNeese baseball history.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Coach Justin Hill.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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