HOUSE MEMORIAL 120

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Doreen Y. Gallegos

A MEMORIAL

CONGRATULATING THE NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM ON AN OUTSTANDING SEASON.

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico state university women's basketball team continues to have an outstanding 2014-2015 season; and

     WHEREAS, the aggies have a current record of nineteen wins and seven losses, with a western athletic conference record of twelve wins and one loss; and

     WHEREAS, the aggies have won their first conference championship in twenty years; and

     WHEREAS, New Mexico state university has earned the number one seed in the upcoming western athletic conference tournament; and

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico state university women have won fifteen of their last sixteen games, a run that includes a twelve-game winning streak; and

     WHEREAS, juniors Sasha Weber and Shanice Davis and sophomores Moriah Mack and Brianna Freeman each have been named a western athletic conference player of the week this season, with Brianna being selected twice; and

     WHEREAS, the aggies are in the top twenty-five in the national collegiate athletic association division one in the statistical categories of three-point field goals per game, placing eighteenth, steals per game, placing twentieth, and turnover margin, placing twenty-fourth; and

     WHEREAS, aggies head coach Mark Trakh has accumulated fifty-one wins to rank fifth in all-time wins for the program; and

     WHEREAS, coach Trakh has won three hundred forty games as a division one collegiate head coach; and

     WHEREAS, coach Trakh and the aggies have clinched a post-season berth for the fifth time in program history;

      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico state university women's basketball team be congratulated for its outstanding season and for bringing honor to New Mexico; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be transmitted to coach Trakh at New Mexico state university.