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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 56
BY SENATOR BERNARD
A RESOLUTION
To commend Susan Jackson on being inducted into the 2022 class of the Louisiana Sports
Hall of Fame.
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, Louisiana, each year
collaborates with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association in selecting a limited number of
sports figures who embody the character, skill, and talent worthy of being named to the Hall
of Fame; and
WHEREAS, the 2022 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class includes Susan
Jackson; and
WHEREAS, Texas native Susan Jackson is one of the greatest athletes in Louisiana
State University gymnastics history; and
WHEREAS, Susan cemented her name as one of the best by shattering school
records and accomplishing numerous firsts in school history during a very dominant senior
season; and
WHEREAS, she became the second LSU gymnast to win two national titles in one
meet, equaling the feat accomplished by Ashleigh Clare-Kearney in 2009; and
WHEREAS, Susan ended her outstanding career with three individual national titles,
the most in school history, and winning LSU's first National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) all-around title in 2010 with a four-event score of 39.625; and
WHEREAS, Susan won the NCAA's individual title on vault in 2008, and on balance
beam in 2010; and
WHEREAS, she was a first team All-American on vault, uneven parallel bars,
balance beam and in all-around in 2010, becoming the second LSU female athlete to win the
Roy F. Kramer Southeastern Conference (SEC) Female Athlete-of-the-Year award; and
WHEREAS, Susan finished second in LSU history with an amazing twelve career
All-American honors, including eleven first-team honors; and
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WHEREAS, she was LSU's first American Athletic, Inc. (AAI) award-winner as the
nation's top senior gymnast and became the first Tiger gymnast to win the Honda Award as
the nation's best gymnast; and
WHEREAS, Susan broke the school record for all-around titles in a single season
with eleven during her senior year; and
WHEREAS, Susan Jackson won seventy-four individual all-around titles during her
four-year career: nineteen on vault, fourteen on bars, thirteen on balance beam, twelve on
floor exercise, and sixteen in all-around; and
WHEREAS, in 2019 she was inducted in the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Susan Jackson on being inducted into the 2022 class of the Louisiana
Sports Hall of Fame.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Susan Jackson.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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