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ALMA MATER
In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
Refrain:
Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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2008-09 Xavier University of Louisiana Men's Cross Country Preview
Rush will go for the gold and ignore the cold
Kenosha, Wis., in mid-November is no day at the beach.
Five of the six previous times Xavier University of Louisiana cross country runners
competed in the NAIA National Championships in Kenosha, the high temperature the
day of the races was in the 30s or 40s — a chill that Xavier runners don't experience regularly.
Xavier would prefer to ignore the chill and savor the thrill in 2008.
The Gold Rush hasn't been represented at the national meet
since 2003, and the only time Xavier qualified its entire men's
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About the Gold Rush
• Head Coach: Joseph Moses (LSU 1994), fourth season; 68-97 at Xavier
• 2007 Overall Record: 37-50
• 2007 GCAC Finish: 1st place out of 5 schools
• 2007 NAIA Region XIII Finish: 4th place out of 10 schools
• Letterwinners: 5 returning, 2 lost
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team was in 2002.
But an NAIA change in qualifying method — which, for the first time in eight years,
rewards conference champions with automatic bids to the nationals — gives Xavier high hopes.
"We like our chances," said fourth-year coach Joseph
Moses. "We won conference the last two years, and we'll have an experienced
team this year. Going to nationals would be a great reward for our guys."
Qualifying for nationals also would mean a trip home for
Gold Rush senior Joe Drexler-Dreis. He's from Shorewood, a suburb about five miles
north of Milwaukee. Kenosha, the site of 27 of the past 32 NAIA men's nationals,
is about 40 miles south of Milwaukee.
Xavier returns five lettermen, and three of them —
Drexler-Dreis, Darren Wallace and Bryan Khan — have been All-Gulf Coast Athletic
Conference.
Wallace, a two-time All-GCAC runner, was fifth in
the 2007 conference race and fourth in 2006. Drexler-Dreis, seventh in the
GCAC this past season, reduced his best 8,000 meter time by more than a minute
from 2006. Khan was All-GCAC in '06 and missed that honor by less than a second
this past year.
The other returning lettermen are junior Mario Myles,
a two-time All-GCAC tennis player, and sophomore Jordan Wilson. New to the
team are freshmen James Hearn and Ray Walston.
Clinton, Miss. — where the Rush nipped Spring Hill
by a point in 2006 to win its first GCAC men's title — will be the site of
this year's conference meet. The GCAC champ will advance to the NAIA National
Championship on Nov. 22. Here are the cold, hard facts: On that date the
average high in Kenosha is 43 degrees, and the high last year was 30.
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