[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 379 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                     November 17, 2003.
Whereas, on June 23, 2003, the Rice University Owls baseball team won the NCAA 
        baseball championship, defeating Stanford, with a final score of 14 to 
        2, before 18,494 Owls fans in the final game at the College World 
        Series;
Whereas Rice University is a small but prestigious school, which opened in 1912, 
        and prides itself on being one of the Nation's best academic 
        institutions;
Whereas winning the national championship in a major Division I sport is a 
        remarkable accomplishment for Rice University, which has an 
        undergraduate enrollment of only 2,700 students and holds its athletes 
        to the same high academic standards as the rest of the school 
        population;
Whereas, before this 2003 victory, the Owls made three trips to the College 
        World Series, in 1997, 1999, and 2002, but won just one of seven games;
Whereas the Owls' coach, Wayne Graham, advanced Rice University's baseball 
        program from obscurity to a national championship in 12 years;
Whereas the Owls' victory at the College World Series is Rice University's first 
        national championship in any team sport and easily the University's 
        crowning athletic achievement;
Whereas Rice University is the second school in the State of Texas to win the 
        NCAA baseball title, joining the University of Texas, which won titles 
        in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, and 2002;
Whereas the Owls' victory completed a remarkable season in which Rice University 
        won 58 of the 70 games it played;
Whereas the Owls opened the 2003 College World Series by first defeating 
        Southwest Missouri State and then by defeating Texas University twice in 
        a span of three days, eliminating the defending national champions and 
        securing a spot in the championship round;
Whereas Rice University defeated Stanford, with a score of 4 to 3, in the first 
        championship game, and then lost to Stanford, with a score of 8 to 3, in 
        the second game, forcing the final game; and
Whereas the final score of 14 to 2, establishing Rice University's national 
        championship victory, is the largest margin of victory in a College 
        World Series final game: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors and congratulates the 
Rice University Owls baseball team for their successful season and their 
historic, outstanding, and memorable NCAA baseball championship victory.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.