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Xavier was one of 10 current members — one of two from the South — to qualify its men's and women's teams three or more times apiece for NAIA Cross Country National Championships from 2008-11. To the right is the list of 10.
XAVIER
Aquinas
British Columbia
Cal State San Marcos
College of Idaho
Concordia (Neb.)
Concordia (Ore.)
Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Lewis-Clark State
Shawnee State

Men's Cross Country
updated May 11, 2012

Head Coach:   Joseph Moses (seventh season), (504) 520-5007 or jmoses@xula.edu
Publicity Contact:   Ed Cassiere, (504) 520-5707 or ecassier@xula.edu



Next:   The Gold Rush await the start of the 2012 season in late August or early September.

Most Recently:   The Gold Rush finished 31st out of 32 teams in the NAIA National Championships at Vancouver, Wash. Freshman Kwame Jackson ran 8,000 meters in 27 minutes, 40 seconds to lead the XU men.
story   results

2011 Highlights:   click here

Rankings:   The Gold Rush received one point in the November 6 NAIA coaches poll. It was the fourth straight week that the XU men received a vote.   story

Sustained Success:   Xavier's men won the last six Gulf Coast Athletic Conference team championships — 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 — and produced GCAC individual champions Ray Walston in 2009, Matt Pieri in 2010 and Kwame Jackson in 2011. Pieri and Jackson are scheduled to return for the 2012 season.

Degrees Matter Too:   Of the 18 senior female and male student-athletes to run for Coach Joseph Moses, 16 received degrees from Xavier. The other two are completing the six-year program in the College of Pharmacy.

Recruiting:   Kwame Jackson of Kingwood, Texas, Lawrence Stansberry of New Orleans and Jamaal Williams of Mesquite, Texas, signed for 2011. All three were all-conference for Xavier in 2011. Xavier has yet to sign anyone for 2012.

2010 Highlights:
   •   The Gold Rush won the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference team championship for the fifth consecutive year.
   •   Matt Pieri was the GCAC individual champion and a five-time GCAC Runner of the Week.
   •   Xavier produced a program-record five All-GCAC runners: Matt Pieri, Ray Walston, Javon Mead, Charles Shaw and Ryan Thompson.
   •   Ray Walston set an XU men's record of 21 minutes, 8 seconds for 6,000 meters in the Ragin' Cajuns Invitational at Lafayette, La., on September 17.
   •   Joseph Moses was GCAC Coach of the Year for the fifth consecutive season.

You Go, Joe!   Joe Drexler-Dreis, who graduated from Xavier in May 2009, earned a first for the university and the GCAC when he earned College Division second-team honors on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® men's track and field/cross country team. Drexler-Dreis, from Shorewood, Wis., and Shorewood High School, was the first Xavier student-athlete chosen to an Academic All-America squad. Drexler-Dreis shared the distinction of first GCAC athlete chosen with Spring Hill's Patrick Aucoin, who also made the second team.
     2010 Xavier University of Louisiana men's cross country team

Xavier University of Louisiana's 2011 men's cross country team
      From left: Charles Shaw, Jamaal Williams, Ray Walston, Kwame Jackson, Javon Mead, Matt Pieri. Not pictured is Emmanuel Detiege.

Xavier appearances at the
NAIA National Championships


Team in 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2011
Individuals in 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000 and 2003

NAIA
GCAC      Xavier's Gulf Coast
Athletic Conference Champions


Team — 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010 and 2011
Individual — Farris Gransberry in 2000,
Ray Walston in 2009, Matt Pieri in 2010,
Kwame Jackson in 2011

 

 
Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC). Xavier fields men's teams in basketball, cross country and tennis and women's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis and volleyball.

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