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Recognizing the Accomplishments of the Basketball, Cross Country/Track and Field and Tennis Teams at Community College of Philadelphia.
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WHEREAS, Community College of Philadelphia has an excellent athletics program, in which the men's basketball team has won two consecutive state championships, the men's and women's cross country track teams have won statewide awards and the tennis team captured its first Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association Championship in 2007 and was runner-up in 2008; and
WHEREAS, The Colonials cross country/track and field, tennis and men's basketball teams at Community College of Philadelphia continue to distinguish themselves as champions in their leagues and encourage individual athletes to excel in academics and as athletes; and
WHEREAS, 2006, 2007 and 2008 will go down as some of the best years in history for the College's coaches and sports teams, all of them bringing home more than their share of championships and accolades; and
WHEREAS, Rogers Glispy, assistant director of athletics and coach of the men's and women's cross country and track teams, and Ephener Green, assistant coach, received the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2005 and 2006 and again in 2007 alongside assistant coaches El'Phant Eure and Robert Taylor; and
WHEREAS, Glispy and Green also received two consecutive Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year Awards after the men's team won their second PCAA State Championship and the women's team won their third; and
WHEREAS, The men's and women's cross country teams celebrated another championship season in 2007, going undefeated in league competition to win the PCAA State Championships; and
WHEREAS, Not only did they win every 2007 meet as a team, but then freshmen standouts Pamela Alva and Alex Bernier earned Runner of the Year Awards; and
WHEREAS, The men's basketball team, not t...
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