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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 8
By Massey
SJR0008
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A RESOLUTION to congratulate the University of Tennessee
Volunteers baseball team, 2024 NCAA Men's
College World Series champion.
WHEREAS, it is fitting that the members of this General Assembly should honor and
commend those extraordinary athletic teams that, through their magnificent exploits, bring honor
to the State of Tennessee and serve as exceptional ambassadors of this State; and
WHEREAS, the University of Tennessee (UT) Volunteers baseball team recently
completed one of the greatest seasons in the history of the university's baseball program, as the
team took home its first NCAA Men's College World Series championship in program history
and finished the season with a 60-13 record; and
WHEREAS, the first No. 1 national seed to win the national title since 1999, the UT
Volunteers defeated Texas A&M University 6-5 on Monday, June 25, 2024, to win the 2024
NCAA Men's College World Series, a testament to the dedication, perseverance, and work ethic
of the players, coaches, and staff of the UT Volunteers baseball program; and
WHEREAS, the 2024 UT Volunteers baseball team is the first sixty-win Southeastern
Conference baseball team in history; and
WHEREAS, the UT Volunteers baseball team set a National Collegiate Athletics
Association record with five players recording twenty or more homeruns during the 2024
season; and
WHEREAS, each member of the UT Volunteers coaching staff deserves recognition,
including Head Coach Tony Vitello, Associate Head Coach Josh Elander, Assistant Coach
Frank Anderson, Assistant Coach Richard Jackson, Director of Player Development Luke
Bonfield, and Student Assistant Coach Parker Serrano; and
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WHEREAS, the members of the UT Volunteers baseball team epitomize all that is good
in today's student athletes, as they have achieved a premier level of success in competition
while exhibiting the highest degree of character in all aspects of life; and
WHEREAS, the outstanding 2024 team is composed of players Christian Moore, Ariel
Antigua, Alex Perry, Cannon Peebles, Bradke Lohry, Nate Snead, Dylan Dreiling, Hunter
Ensley, Cal Stark, Billy Amick, Ethan Payne, Reese Chapman, Charlie Taylor, JJ Garcia, Dalton
Bargo, Robin Villeneuve, AJ Causey, Andrew Behnke, Colby Backus, Kavares Tears, Dean
Curley, Blake Burke, Chris Stamos, Aaron Combs, Brady Robertson, Stone Lawless, Austin
Hunley, Drew Beam, AJ Russell, Derek Schaefer, Kirby Connell, Blake Grimmer, Dylan Loy,
Hunter High, Camden Bates, Luke Payne, Marcus Phillips, Brayden Sharp, and Zander
Sechrist; and
WHEREAS, the members of this General Assembly take great pride in honoring this
extraordinary group of young men who have indelibly written their names for all time into the
annals of the College World Series; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that we honor and congratulate Head Coach Tony Vitello
and the University of Tennessee Volunteers baseball team upon their 2024 NCAA Men's
College World Series championship and extend to them our best wishes for every future
success.
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.