Session 2000
Effective: 2-23-2000
SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1814 A� Resolution congratulating and commending the 1999 Butler County Community College football team.
� � � WHEREAS,� The 1999 Butler County Community College football
team, the Grizzlies, are the National Junior College Athletic Association
champions for the second consecutive year; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The Grizzlies won the first five games of the 1999 season
and were ranked No. 1 in the nation but lost the sixth game in an overtime
to the second ranked team, the Garden City Broncbusters. They won the
remainder of their games, and in a rematch with the Garden City Bronc-
busters for the Jayhawk Conference Championship won 37-34; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The team traveled to St. George, Utah, to face the un-
defeated and No. 1 ranked team, the Dixie College Rebels. On December
4, 1999, the Grizzlies defeated the Rebels on the Rebel's home field 49-
35 thereby winning the second consecutive national championship for
Butler County Community College; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The Grizzlies had a record five players selected as first-
team All Americans: Howard Duncan, Kansas City, KS; Adam Stiles,
Wichita, KS; Mark Strickland, Wilson, N.C.; Rudi Johnson, Colonial
Heights, VA and David Routt, Cincinnati, OH. Grizzly tailback Rudi
Johnson was named the national player of the year and head coach James
Shibest was selected as the national coach of the year for the second
consecutive year: Now, therefore,

� � � Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas:�That we con-
gratulate and commend the 1999 Butler County Community College
football team, coaching staff, administration and student body upon being
the junior college national football champions for the second consecutive
year; and

� � � Be it further resolved:�That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to provide five enrolled copies of this resolution to Dr. Jacqueline Vietti,
President, Butler County Community College, Haverhill Road--Towanda
Avenue, El Dorado, Kansas 67042.

Senate Resolution No. 1814 was sponsored by Senator David R. Corbin