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Congratulates Willie Jeffries for winning the 2024 Maxwell HBCU award for contributions to HBCU football

Recognizes Jeffries as a Union, South Carolina native who played football at South Carolina State College and became the first African American head coach of an NCAA Division 1-A (now FBS) football program at Wichita State in 1979

Highlights his 34 consecutive years of collegiate coaching, including stints at North Carolina A&T, Wichita State, Howard University, and South Carolina State

Notes his achievements including three Black College Football National Championships, seven MEAC titles, five MEAC Coach of the Year honors, and inductions into the College Football Hall of Fame, MEAC Hall of Fame, and South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame

Directs that a copy of this resolution be presented to Willie Jeffries