[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 20539-20540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                RECOGNIZING SAN BERNARDINO'S TEAM INLAND

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise today to acknowledge the 
accomplishments of some incredibly focused and dedicated young athletes 
from southern California. This year, the members of Team Inland placed 
third in the Nike National Youth Basketball Tournament, became the 
Amateur Athletic Union, AAU, West Coast National Champions, and won the 
AAU Southern Pacific Division 1 Regional Tournament.
  Team Inland is a nonprofit organization based in the city of San 
Bernardino. It is comprised of 11-year-olds, who commit their time to 
prepare for numerous weekend basketball tournaments throughout the 
year. In 2005, they won 77 percent of their games, earning impressive 
placements in many tournaments.
  Making Team Inland's achievement even more meaningful is the fact 
that team members excelled academically while striving to meet their 
athletic goals, each maintaining a minimum 3.0 grade point average. It 
is clear that these young people have set high standards for themselves 
and put forth tremendous effort to meet them.

[[Page 20540]]

  The members of 2005 Team Inland are: Marquise Drumwright, Ejiro 
Ederaine, Tyler Ervin, Quinton Lilley, Jordan Mathis, Myles Pearson, 
Isaiah Pooler, Kameron Presley, Chandler Scott, Justin Snavely, 
Dominique Walker, and Arther Ley Williams.
  The Team Inland players have demonstrated their immense potential to 
achieve. I hope you are heartened, as I am, to learn of young people 
striving for personal excellence. I extend my sincere congratulations 
to Team Inland and thank them for their great team spirit.

                          ____________________