IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION congratulating the Lee's Summit North High School girls basketball team upon winning the 2001-2002 Missouri 4A championship.
Intro
RESOLUTION # 14100, April 2, 2002
INTRODUCED BY Bob Spence, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, the Lee's Summit North Broncos girls basketball team survived a furious comeback attempt by the hometown Columbia Hickman Kewpies to claim the Missouri 4A championship, with a 55-50 victory; and,
WHEREAS, Head Coach Tricia Lillygren's Broncos were 0-4 in Class 4A Final Four play before this season; and,
WHEREAS, the question has been whispered throughout the area for the past three years, "Can Tricia Lillygren really coach or does she just happen to have the most talented team in the area?;" and,
WHEREAS, the Broncos took that doubt and threw it out the bus door on its trip home after they held off Columbia Hickman for the state championship at the University of Missouri's Hearnes Center; and,
WHEREAS, "I really don't know what to say, " said Coach Lillygren, "We came down here very much the underdog and with doubt in the air about if we could come down here and perform after two years of playing subpar;" and,
WHEREAS, this is the first title for a girls 4A team from Kansas City since Lee's Summit High School's in 1990; and,
WHEREAS, the Broncos had been to the past two Final Fours, and had returned to Lee's Summit with a fourth-place trophy instead of championships; and,
WHEREAS, the Lee's Summit North Broncos girls basketball team includes head coach Tricia Lillygren, assistant coaches Sean Donovan, Aaron Bruening, Jon Gage, Tavish Whiting, and Gary Bowers, athletic trainers Steve Taylor and Joy Reed, managers Carla Schoeneman, Dani White, and Brianah Kalousek, and roster players Lia Bailey, junior-forward, Liz Pierson, senior-guard, Amy Andrews, senior-guard, Claire Coggins, junior-guard, Lauren Fruits, senior-forward, Li...
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