<BillNo> <Sponsor> HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 374 By Camper HJR0374 005261 - 1 - A RESOLUTION to honor Penny Hardaway upon being selected as the American Athletic Conference's 2024- 2025 Coach of the Year. WHEREAS, it is fitting that the members of this General Assembly should pause to pay tribute to those excellent coaches who have led their players to success in athletic competition and in life; and WHEREAS, Coach Penny Hardaway has established himself as the head basketball coach at the University of Memphis and guided the Tigers to unprecedented heights of achievement; and WHEREAS, Penny Hardaway was named the American Athletic Conference's 2024- 2025 Coach of the Year by his peers in recognition of his devoted instruction and success as the head basketball coach at the University of Memphis; and WHEREAS, Coach Hardaway led the Tigers to a 26-5 overall record and 16-2 mark in conference play on the way to Memphis's first regular season championship in the American Athletic Conference; and WHEREAS, Penny Hardaway has distinguished himself as a great coach, tactician, and motivator of young athletes, and this native Tennessean should be appropriately recognized; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE SENATE CONCURRING, that we honor and congratulate Penny Hardaway upon being named the American Athletic Conference's 2024-2025 Coach of the Year and extend to him our best wishes for much continued success both on and off the court. - 2 - 005261 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear without House or Senate designation.