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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM

ON THEIR OUTSTANDING SUCCESS IN THE 2023-2024 SEASON

     Introduced By: Representatives Hull, O'Brien, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Chippendale,
Handy, Biah, J. Lombardi, Alzate, and Fellela

     Date Introduced: March 19, 2024

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Rhode Island College Women's Basketball Team, led by outstanding

Head Coach Jenna Cosgrove, just completed an incredibly successful season that included

compiling a perfect regular season record, winning their fourth straight Little East Conference

regular season Championship and their fourth straight Little East Conference Tournament

Championship, and winning two games in the NCAA Division III Tournament; and

     WHEREAS, The Anchorwomen were led all season by the outstanding play and

leadership provided by Graduate Guard Sophia Guerrier, who earned Little East Player of the

Year honors, First Team All-Little East honors, and was named to the Little East All-Defensive

Team, fifth-year guard Jeniyah Jones who earned Defensive Player of the Year honors, and was

named to the Second Team All-Little East Team and to the Little East All-Defensive Team,

Junior Guard Madison Medbury, who earned First Team All-Little East honors, was named to the

Little East All-Defensive Team, and was named the Most Outstanding player of the Little East

Championship, Fifth Year Forward Izabelle Booth, who was named First Team All-Little East, as

well as Junior Forward Angelina Nardolillo, who was named Second Team All-Little Sports; and

     WHEREAS, Earning Little East Conference Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time

in the last five years was Jenna Cosgrove, the heralded Head Coach of the Rhode Island College

Anchorwoman. Her accomplishments during her seven-year run at Rhode Island College are

second to none, and thanks to her leadership and stellar coaching, Rhode Island College Women's

Basketball has become a force to be reckoned with locally, regionally and nationally; and

     WHEREAS, Coach Jenna Cosgrove has won well over seventy percent of her games at

Rhode Island College, has won four straight Little East Regular Season and four straight Little

East Conference Tournament Championships, reached the NCAA Division III Final Four for the

first time in program history in 2023, and had a program record 29 wins in a row this season

which included a perfect record in Little East competition; and

     WHEREAS, Accomplishing all of the success the Rhode Island College Women's

Basketball Team attained this season would have been impossible without having a talented and

determined group of young ladies willing each and every day to give their all for a common goal

and to always put team needs ahead of individual desires. The 2023-2024 Rhode Island College

Women's Basketball Team had those qualities in abundance as they were led all season by the

important contributions provided by Maggie McKitchen, Bailey Burke, Izabelle Booth, Olivia

Middleton, Claire Greene, Maggie Schwab, Angelina Nardolillo, Sophia Guerrier, Vanessa

Venditti, Elli Cox, Madison Medbury, Jayda Bing, Neleesha Meunier, and Jeniyah Jones, as well

as the outstanding coaching provided all season by Head Coach Jenna Cosgrove, and Assistant

Women's Basketball Coaches Derek Shanks, Meghan Reall, and Claudia DeFaria; now, therefore

be it

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

heartily congratulates the Rhode Island College Women's Basketball Team on their outstanding

success in the 2023-2024 season; 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 Rhode Island College Women's Basketball

Head Coach Jenna Cosgrove.

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