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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING BISHOP HENDRICKEN COACH JIM DOYLE ON BEING NAMED

THE 2018-2019 BOYS' CROSS COUNTRY COACH OF THE YEAR BY THE NATIONAL

HIGH SCHOOL COACHES ASSOCIATION

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Shekarchi, McNamara, Vella-Wilkinson, Bennett, and
Solomon

     Date Introduced: February 05, 2019

     Referred To: House read and passed

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     WHEREAS, For the past twenty years the National High School Coaches Association

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has honored high achieving head coaches annually in twenty boys' and girls' sports. Recently,

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they announced that Jim Doyle of Bishop Hendricken High School was named the 2018-2019

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National High School Boys' Cross Country Coach of the Year in honor and recognition of his

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decades of excellent coaching not only in Boys' Cross Country but also the Indoor and Outdoor

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Track & Field Teams at Bishop Hendricken; and

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     WHEREAS, Bishop Hendricken has won twenty-four Rhode Island Cross Country State

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Championships, with twenty of those teams having been coached by Jim Doyle. His most recent

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Championship occurred in 2018, with his team going on to finish in fourth place at the prestigious

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Nike Cross Nationals hosted in Oregon; and

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     WHEREAS, During his illustrious coaching career, Coach Doyle has won more than fifty

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State Championships in cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field, a record few high

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school coaches anywhere in the United States can equal; and

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     WHEREAS, In honor and recognition of Jim Doyle's coaching prowess and success, he

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was inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic Athletic Hall of Fame. He was also named the

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2018 Rhode Island Cross Country Coach of the Year by the United States Track & Field and

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Cross Country Coaches Association. When honoring Coach Doyle, Eric Hess, the Executive

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Director of the National High School Coaches Association, said, "He has established Bishop

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Hendricken as one of the top Cross Country programs in Rhode Island and the nation. He exhibits

 

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a strong dedication to supporting and developing his high school student-athletes in the classroom

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and outside of it"; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

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Providence Plantations hereby congratulates Bishop Hendricken Coach Jim Doyle on being

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named the 2018-2019 Boys' Cross Country Coach of the Year by the National High School

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Coaches Association; and be it further

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Coach Jim Doyle, Bishop Hendricken.

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