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2017 SESSION


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 890
Commending Jaiden Alexis Morris.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 10, 2017
Agreed to by the Senate, February 16, 2017

 

WHEREAS, Jaiden Alexis Morris, a senior basketball standout at Monacan High School in Chesterfield, committed to play for Rider University in New Jersey after she graduates in 2017; and

WHEREAS, a 5-foot-8 guard, Jaiden Morris scored her 1,000th career point in 2016, and has over 10 full scholarship offers to play basketball at Division I colleges and universities; and

WHEREAS, Jaiden Morris won First-Team All-State, First-Team All-Regional, Second-Team All-Regional, Second-Team All-Conference, and Second-Team All-Metro honors during her stellar basketball career; and

WHEREAS, Jaiden Morris set a Virginia High School League record for most points in a half (33) in a state title game in the 2016 Virginia High School League Group 4A state championship, which Monacan High School won; and

WHEREAS, a student in the Honors Health and Physical Therapy Program, Jaiden Morris’ career goal is to become a sports medicine physical therapist; and

WHEREAS, off the court, Jaiden Morris commits her time to volunteer service to help make her community better, and she is a determined and hardworking student in the classroom; and

WHEREAS, Jaiden Morris is an excellent example of what hard work and dedication look like, and she represents the best of the best within Chesterfield County Public Schools; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend Jaiden Alexis Morris, a Monacan High School senior, on committing to play basketball for Rider University after she graduates in 2017; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Jaiden Alexis Morris as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration for her hard work and dedication to excellence both on and off the basketball court.