[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 16, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E20-E21]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN MEMORY OF COACH NEAL WILSON

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 16, 2008

  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to remember Coach Neal 
Wilson, the longtime athletic director of Lewisville Independent School 
District in Lewisville, Texas and a tireless public servant.
  Coach Wilson began his four decade-long coaching career in 1965 with 
the Lewisville ISD, and was Lewisville head football coach from 1978 to 
the fall of 1985, when he assumed full-time athletic director duties. 
He retired in December 2000, but came back for brief athletic director 
stints at surrounding school districts for several years. Coach Wilson 
then came back to assume the athletic director role in the Lewisville 
ISD during the spring of 2004, and then again in 2007.
  In 2003, Coach Wilson was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches 
Association Hall of Honor, and in 2005, Flower Mound High School in 
Flower Mound, Texas, renamed its football stadium the Neal E. Wilson/
Jaguar Stadium. Coach Wilson was known as a strong advocate of all 
sports and took great pride in making sure he not only gave equally to 
all sports, but also increased his knowledge about every sport with 
each passing day.
  His motto, according to Lewisville assistant athletic director Rody 
Durham, was that you have to give the kids a chance to win. Coach 
Wilson expected himself and every coach to do their part to put their 
teams in the best position possible and lead by example. ``When we have 
needed him, he's always been there for us,'' Coach Durham said.
  My thoughts go out to his wife Donna and two sons, Darrell and Lance, 
as well as a

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long-list of family and friends. Coach Wilson will be greatly missed by 
the many that are fortunate enough to speak of the impact he had on 
their lives.

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