[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 26 (Thursday, February 17, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E254]
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          IN HONOR OF IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

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                            HON. JIM GERLACH

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 17, 2011

  Mr. GERLACH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, along with my colleague Rep. 
Patrick Meehan (PA-7), to congratulate the Immaculata University 
women's basketball team on its record of outstanding accomplishment.
  Immaculata University, located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, is 
considered to be the birthplace of modern college women's basketball. 
Known as the Mighty Macs, the Immaculata women's basketball team won 
three consecutive national college women's basketball championships in 
1972, 1973 and 1974. These championships were the first college women's 
basketball championships played in the United States. The Mighty Macs 
also have the distinction of playing in the first nationally televised 
college women's basketball game as well as being the first college 
women's basketball team to compete outside the United States.
  The Immaculata women's basketball team produced four All-Americans, 
Marianne Crawford Stanley, Rene Muth Portland, Mary Scharff and Theresa 
Shank Grentz. All members of the team are trailblazers and true 
American heroes who set the highest standards both academically and 
athletically, for not only women's basketball, but for women's and 
men's sports alike.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask, along with Rep. Patrick Meehan (PA-7), that my 
colleagues join me today in recognizing the Immaculata women's 
basketball team and, for bringing both tremendous pride to the citizens 
of Pennsylvania and inspirational change to American intercollegiate 
sport, ask that March 29, 2011 be known as Immaculata University Mighty 
Macs Day.

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