4304004 ACR 19-350, "Friendship Collegiate Academy 2012 D.C. Statewide Athletic Association Champion Recognition Resolution of 2012"
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A CEREMONIAL RESOLUTION
19-350
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
December 4, 2012
To recognize, honor, and congratulate the Friendship Collegiate Academy’s Varsity Football Team as the 2012 D.C. Statewide Athletic Association champion.
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football program began in 2004 with Aazaar Abdul-Rahim as its first and still only varsity football head coach;
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football program has grown over the years and today boasts enough players to field freshman, junior varsity, and varsity teams;
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football team may be considered the best high school football team in the District of Columbia proper;
WHEREAS, on December 1st, 2012 Friendship Collegiate Academy played the DCIAA Champion, Paul Lawrence Dunbar Senior High School, on the field of Howard University in the first D.C. Statewide Athletic Association Championship game.
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy won 48-12;
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy football program is not without many challenges, including no league, no home field, no practice field to call its own and not even a locker room;
WHEREAS, despite all of these challenges, Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football team did not let obstacles deter it from success;
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy has proven to be a football scholarship goldmine with many young men receiving scholarship opportunities and signing letters of intent with collages across the country;
WHEREAS, 19 young men received scholarships in 2011, 14 in 2010, and 9 in 2009; and
WHEREAS, Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football team serves as an example of what can be accomplished with little and how dreams can come true through dedication, persistence, and hard work.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Friendship Collegiate Academy 2012 D.C. Statewide Athletic Association Champion Recognition Resolution of 2012".
Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia salutes the Friendship Collegiate Academy’s 2012 Varsity Football team’s spirit and its achievements in advancing sporting excellence in Washington, D.C.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia recognizes Coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim for establishing the Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football program in 2004, and congratulates him and the varsity football team on a job well done as the winners of the inaugural 2012 D.C. Statewide Athletic Association Championship game.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in the District of Columbia Register
