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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING AND CONGRATULATING ALLIE REILLY FOR ATTAINING A SILVER

MEDAL IN ROWING AT THE 2020 SUMMER PARALYMPICS HELD FROM AUGUST

24TH TO SEPTEMBER 5TH OF 2021, IN TOKYO, JAPAN

     Introduced By: Representatives Craven, Casimiro, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, McEntee,
Fogarty, and Shallcross Smith

     Date Introduced: January 11, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Allie Reilly is a North Kingstown High School graduate who excelled in

both athletics and academics. She was an Interscholastic League Division II and All-Class

selection in both cross country and indoor track. She also played girls lacrosse and was named

Team Captain as a senior. She later took up rowing and once again excelled in another sport; and

     WHEREAS, Ms. Reilly is a 2019 University of Rhode Island graduate, holding a degree

in Kinesiology. She went from being a walk-on athlete to a rowing star at URI, winning the

Varsity Eight at the 2018 and 2019 Atlantic 10 Conference Championships. She was a US

Rowing Fan’s Choice Award nominee in 2018, and an NCAA Sportswoman of the Year Award

nominee in 2019. She also received the Winifred Kearney Award for Most Outstanding Female

Athlete at the University of Rhode Island in 2019, was a First Team All-Conference selection in

2019, and was a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Scholar Athlete Award

recipient in 2018-2019; and

     WHEREAS, Allie Reilly holds the prestigious distinction of having been a member of

three United States National Rowing Teams. In 2018, she helped lead her team to a Silver Medal

in the PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain at the World Rowing Championship held in Plovdiv,

Bulgaria, and played a vital role in helping the United States Rowing Team repeat its Silver

Medal success in the same event held at the 2019 World Rowing Championship in Ottensheim,

Austria; and

     WHEREAS, After many sporting events were postponed in 2020, United States Team

Rowing resumed its elite rowing performance at the 2020 Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan, in

2021. After the 2020 World Championship Regatta was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, Ms.

Reilly and her teammates were finally able to reunite in 2021 at the Olympic Village in Tokyo.

Despite having to deal with virus protocols like daily testing and social distancing measures that

made training and refining teamwork timing difficult, she and her teammates responded like the

champions that they are in both the athletic competition and in real life, and once again attained a

Silver Medal in Rowing in the PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

held in 2021; and

     WHEREAS, Perhaps the most impressive thing about Allie Reilly's athletic achievements

is the fact that she has accomplished so much while at the same time performing oncology work

with Massachusetts General Hospital, where she would often schedule a pair of daily training

sessions around her work schedule. She is planning on attending graduate school and becoming a

Physician’s Assistant; now, therefore be it

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

congratulates Ms. Allie Reilly on winning a silver medal at the 2020 Paralympics held in 2021,

and congratulates her on all of her immense athletic and academic achievements; and be it further

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

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Ms. Allie Reilly.

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