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2023 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 27
BY REPRESENTATIVE DEVILLIER AND SENATORS CLOUD AND HENSGENS
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Louisiana State University at Eunice head baseball coach and athletic director
Jeff Willis on being named to the National Junior College Athletic Association
Coaches Hall of Fame.
WHEREAS, it is most fitting to recognize Jeff Willis, head baseball coach at
Louisiana State University at Eunice, and to commend him on being named to the 2023
Class of the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame;
and
WHEREAS, Jeff Willis currently serves as the athletic director at Louisiana State
University at Eunice and head baseball coach of the Bengals baseball team; he has amassed
a career coaching record of nine hundred eighty-one wins and only two hundred fourteen
losses, and his teams have achieved the top ranking in the National Junior College Athletic
Association (NJCAA) baseball polls in fifteen of his twenty seasons as head coach; and
WHEREAS, Coach Willis has also led his teams to seven national championships,
which is tied for the most by one school in NJCAA history; additionally, his teams have
never finished a season ranked lower than seventh overall in the NJCAA baseball polls; and
WHEREAS, Coach Willis is also a twenty-one-year member of the American
Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) who has been named an ABCA Regional Coach of
the Year on eleven occasions and garnered seven ABCA NJCAA Division II National Coach
of the Year honors; and
WHEREAS, Coach Willis was recently elected by the ABCA to join its board of
directors while also serving as the junior college division chairman; he is now one of just
four junior college coaches on the board, which encompasses all levels of competitive
baseball; and
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WHEREAS, earlier this year, Coach Willis was named to the 2023 Class of the
NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame; he was elected during the recent ABCA
Convention in Nashville, Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame began in 1982 and currently
has one hundred thirty-two members enshrined; with his induction, Coach Willis becomes
one of the youngest members and one of the quickest to be enshrined; and
WHEREAS, Coach Jeff Willis is most deserving of the highest recognition for his
truly legendary coaching career.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Louisiana State University at Eunice head baseball coach and athletic director Jeff
Willis on being named to the National Junior College Athletic Association Coaches Hall of
Fame and does hereby extend sincerest wishes that he continue to achieve new levels of
coaching greatness for many years to come.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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