[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1218-E1219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO COACH LELAND YOUNG

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 11, 2003

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to 
the life and accomplishments of Mr. Leland Young of Rosedale, 
Mississippi. He dedicated his life to serving Mississippi's local youth 
athletes for 61 years.
  Mr. Young was born July 28, 1941, in Ripley, Mississippi to Leland 
and Willie Young. He married Mary Katherine Jacob of Clarksdale on June 
6, 1964. Together they had one daughter.
  During his coaching career he built an impressive record of 221-63-2. 
He led Rosedale High School to four North Mississippi State

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Championships and three State Championships in football. His team also 
won the Delta Valley Conference Football Championship. At the time of 
his retirement, Rosedale High School held the state record for the most 
consecutive wins.
  Mr. Young also led the track team to a State Track Championship in 
1983. He won the ``DVC Track Coach of the Year'' award in 1983 and the 
``State Track Coach of the Year'' award the same year.
  Mr. Young was inducted into the Delta State University Alumni Coaches 
Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Mississippi High School Coaches Hall of 
Fame in 2001. The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity awarded him in 2001 with a 
plaque for distinguished service rendered in the field of sports. He 
was the 2002 Bolivar Commercial Coach of the Year and was in The 
Bolivar Commercial Quarter Century Club in 2000. He was also Co-Coach 
of Year for the Delta Democrat Times in 2002.
  He was an avid golfer and outdoorsman. He was a member of the Delta 
State University Athletic Alumni Association, Mississippi Association 
of Coaches, Donaldson Point Hunting Club, Rosedale Country Club and 
Rosedale Methodist Church. Mr. Leland Young will be dearly missed by 
his community.

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