III 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 168 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 24, 2007 Mr. Feingold (for himself and Mr. Kohl) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Congratulating the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team for winning the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

Whereas, on March 18, 2007, in Lake Placid, New York, by defeating the University of Minnesota-Duluth by a score of 4–1 in the championship game and defeating St. Lawrence University by a score of 4–0 in the semifinals, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team (referred to in this preamble as the Badgers) won the women’s Frozen Four championship, earning their second consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title; Whereas Sara Bauer scored a goal and tallied 2 assists, Erika Lawler scored a goal and tallied an assist, Jinelle Zaugg scored a goal, Jasmine Giles scored a goal, Meghan Duggan contributed an assist, Meaghan Mikkelson contributed an assist, and Jessie Vetter stopped 17 shots in the final game to earn her 20th win of the season; Whereas every player on the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team (Sara Bauer, Rachel Bible, Christine Dufour, Meghan Duggan, Maria Evans, Jasmine Giles, Kayla Hagen, Tia Hanson, Angie Keseley, Heidi Kletzien, Emily Kranz, Erika Lawler, Alycia Matthews, Alannah McCready, Meaghan Mikkelson, Phoebe Monteleone, Emily Morris, Mikka Nordby, Kyla Sanders, Bobbi-Jo Slusar, Ally Strickler, Jessie Vetter, Kristen Witting, and Jinelle Zaugg) contributed to the success of the team; Whereas Sara Bauer was named to the RBK/American Hockey Coaches Association All-American First Team, and was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award for national player of the year, the United States College Hockey Online’s (USCHO) Player of the Year for the second straight season, and the WCHA Player of the Year and WCHA Scoring Champion, and earned a spot on the All-USCHO First Team and the All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) First Team; Whereas Bobbi-Jo Slusar was named to the RBK All-American Second team, the All-USCHO First Team, and the All-WCHA Second Team, and was named USCHO Defensive Player of the Year; Whereas Meaghan Mikkelson was named to the All-USCHO First Team and the All-WCHA First Team, and was named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Year; Whereas Jessie Vetter was named to the RBK All-American First Team, All-USCHO Second Team, and All-WCHA First Team; Whereas Meghan Duggan was named to the All-USCHO Rookie Team and named WCHA Rookie of the Year, Christine Dufour was named to the All-WCHA Third Team and was WCHA Goaltending Champion, and Erika Lawler was named to the All-WCHA Third Team; Whereas Coach Mark Johnson, who won an NCAA championship as member of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team in 1977, was a member of the gold-medal winning 1980 United States Olympic hockey team, and is one of the few people who have won a national championship as both a player and coach, was named the WCHA Coach of the Year; Whereas the Badgers are the first University of Wisconsin program to repeat as NCAA champions since the University of Wisconsin women’s cross country team won the title in both 1984 and 1985; and Whereas the Badgers ended the season on a 26-game undefeated streak, finishing with a record of 36–1–4, while outscoring opponents 166–36, and the Badgers broke or tied 6 NCAA single-season team records: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1)congratulates the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, the coaching staff, including Head Coach Mark Johnson and Assistant Coaches Tracey Cornell and Daniel Koch, Program Assistant Sharon Eley, Director of Women’s Hockey Operations Paul Hickman, Athletic Trainer Jennifer Pepoy, Volunteer Coach Jeff Sanger, and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez, and Chancellor John D. Wiley on an outstanding championship season; and (2)respectfully requests the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.