HR 1523 Summary

• The Indiana House of Representatives honors Mike Lightfoot, Bethel College's men's basketball head coach, for completing 30 years of successful coaching.

• Lightfoot's teams won 18 Crossroads League championships, 3 NAIA national championships, and 4 NCCAA national championships, including back-to-back NAIA titles.

• Coach Lightfoot has 763 wins (sixth-most among active NAIA coaches), a .732 lifetime winning percentage (second-highest among active NAIA coaches with 500+ victories), and won games faster than any other NAIA coach at major win milestones.

• His teams maintained a 98 percent graduation rate over 30 years, produced 31 NAIA All-Americans, 98 All-Crossroads League players, 29 Academic All-Conference players, and mentored over 40 players and assistant coaches who became high school or college coaches.

• The resolution directs the House Principal Clerk to transmit a copy to Mike Lightfoot and Bethel College president Gregg A. Chenoweth, Ph.D., recognizing his community outreach including mission trips and support for ministries in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Bahamas, Jamaica, Alaska, Ecuador, and Russia.