THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY SANTONI, ADOLPH, BRADFORD, BARRAR, BEYER, BISHOP, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, D. COSTA, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, DRUCKER, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARHART, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, M. KELLER, KESSLER, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KULA, LENTZ, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANN, McGEEHAN, McILVAINE SMITH, MILLARD, MIRABITO, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PAYNE, PHILLIPS, QUINN, READSHAW, REED, REICHLEY, ROEBUCK, ROHRER, ROSS, SAINATO, SAYLOR, SEIP, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STABACK, J. TAYLOR, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD AND MICCARELLI, FEBRUARY 3, 2010

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, FEBRUARY 3, 2010  

A RESOLUTION

Congratulating Villanova University and its women's varsity

cross country team for winning the 2009 National Collegiate

Athletic Association Division I Women's Cross Country

Championship on November 23, 2009, in Terre Haute, Indiana.

WHEREAS, Moving from the fifth seeded women's cross country

team in the country as its season began to the second seed by

season's end, Villanova University's women's cross country team

won the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I

Women's Cross Country Championship on November 23, 2009, in

Terre Haute, Indiana; and 

WHEREAS, The Villanova Wildcat women's cross country team has

a tradition of winning national championships, having won eight

championships in the past, with its most recent title coming in

1998; and

WHEREAS, The team was paced by Sheila Reid, Amanda Marino,

Bogdana Mimic, Ali Smith and Nicole Schappert, who all earned

All-American honors at the NCAA Championships, the first time in

program history that all five scoring runners finished as All-

Americans; and

WHEREAS, Former Villanova running star Gina Procaccio has

coached the university's women's cross country team since 2000;

and

WHEREAS, The accomplishments of this outstanding athletic

team adds to the total of Villanova's 17 national championships,

including one in football earned on December 18, 2009; therefore

be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives congratulate

Villanova University and its women's varsity cross country team

for winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association

Division I Women's Cross Country Championship on November 23,

2009, in Terre Haute, Indiana.