HCR 198

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2026
No. R-239. House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2025 Rice Memorial High
School Green Knights Division II championship girls’ soccer team.
                                         (H.C.R.198)
   Offered by Representative Minier of South Burlington
   Whereas, the 2025 Division II girls’ soccer championship game, played under the
lights at Burlington High School, can be accurately described as a thrilling athletic
encounter, pitting top-seeded Rice Memorial High School against second-ranked
Harwood Union High School, and
   Whereas, in a contest that showcased defensive polish, the Green Knights’ and
Highlanders’ goalies’ combined save toll exceeded 35, resulting in a late and low-scoring
evening on the pitch, and
   Whereas, with merely 3:14 remaining in regulation play, Harwood shattered the
scoreless logjam, but Rice replied in kind with only 1:11 left in the second half, and
   Whereas, the teams fervently battled into a second overtime period when, with 9:38 to
go, Harwood executed a seemingly goal-scoring sequence, only to experience
disappointment 25 seconds later as the referees canceled the goal with the assessment of
an offside penalty, and this set the stage for Rice to score a walk-off goal nearly seven
minutes later and clinch an unimagined 2–1 victory, and
   Whereas, Green Knights Peyton Borick, Bayleigh Clark, Reese Billings, Edie Curtin,
Madi Lacy, Celeste Hines, Esme Cyr, Ruby Levinson, Maddie Ploof, Lucy Barndt, Stella
Kruse, Savannah Nelson, Abby English, Sara Guidice, Izzy Lacy, Grace Bowen, Alexis
Menard O’Neil, Reilly Lewton, Celia Leclair, Summer Nelson, and Neesa Giulianelli
will long remember this fairy-tale concluding game, and
   Whereas, Head Coach Aubrey Ouellet and assistant coaches Katherine Fischer, Anna
Krause, Abby Turner, Kaylee Sullivan, and Zaf Bludevich were delighted with the 2025
season, now therefore be it
   Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
  That the General Assembly congratulates the 2025 Rice Memorial High School Green
Knights Division II championship girls’ soccer team, and be it further
   Resolved: That the Secretary of State be directed to send a copy of this resolution to
Rice Memorial High School.
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