[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING THE WHITEFIELD ACADEMY BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM ON WINNING THE 
                        GHSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Madam Speaker, with the NCAA Basketball 
Tournament now down to the Final Four, I want to recognize a very 
talented group of high school student athletes from Smyrna, Georgia, 
near my home in Cobb County. In this year's Georgia High School 
Association State final, the Whitefield Academy Boys Basketball team, 
or the Wolf Pack, upset number one ranked Turner County 69-53 to claim 
the class A State title.
  The game was all tied up at the half, but Whitefield opened the 
second half with a 16-2 run, and they never looked back. Madam Speaker, 
in the end it was discipline and determination that allowed Coach 
Tyrone Johnson and the Whitefield Academy Wolf Pack to hand Turner 
County their very first loss of 2009 and claim the school's second 
class A boys' State Championship.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in congratulating 
Whitefield Academy on their State championship as well as all of the 
hard work that got them there.

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