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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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Xavier is the defending Gulf Coast Athletic Conference champion
Men's Tennis
updated April 11, 2007
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Terry Richardson
2007 GCAC Player of the Year
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Xavier (11-8) will defend its title in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament at
Ridgeland Tennis Center in Ridgeland, Miss. — a suburb north of Jackson —
on Friday (April 11). Xavier's past two men's teams (2005 and 2007) won GCAC titles.
An exception was 2006, when Xavier did not field a team in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Gold Rush is the No. 1 seed and will play in the semifinals against the winner of a
first-round match between Belhaven and Tougaloo.
Mobile and Spring Hill will play in the other semifinal.
GCAC Tournament Pairings:
(schedule revised Friday because of weather)
First Round
#4 Belhaven (2-10) vs. #5 Tougaloo (0-8), 11:30 a.m.
Semifinals
#2 Mobile (8-4) vs. #3 Spring Hill (4-9), noon
#1 Xavier (11-8) vs. Belhaven-Tougaloo winner, 2 p.m.
Championship
Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.
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Xavier won 7-0 Sunday at Alcorn State for its fourth consecutive victory and its 10th in 13 duals.
The Gold Rush has three victories this season against NCAA Division I opponents.
Story
Results
Team Rankings:
Xavier was 24th in the NAIA coaches poll of April 2. The final two polls of the season will be April 16 and 30.
Season poll recap:
February — 20th on Feb. 6 (preseason), 24th on Feb. 20.
March — 24th on March 5, 24th on March 19.
Individual Rankings:
Senior Miroslav Vukicevic was No. 5 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's NAIA men's singles rankings announced
March 31. The ranking is the highest by a Xavier singles player or doubles team, male or female, in the past 11 seasons.
The Coach:
Alan Green (Xavier 2002) is in his fifth season as the coach of Xavier's men and women.
His men have a four-year record of 62-53 in dual matches and won two GCAC championships. Green, 33,
was a standout player at Xavier.
Fall 2007 Highlights:
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Sophomore Matthew Walker won a pair of men's titles Sept. 29 in the HBCU National Tennis Championships at
Sugar Creek Tennis Center in Atlanta.
Walker defeated Florida A&M's Boris Jenkins 8-3 to win the B-flight singles consolation championship.
Walker and Mikhail Vaval-Desse won the B-flight doubles title after beating FAMU's Michael Moore and Maurice Wamukowa 9-8 (7-3)
in the semifinals and Alcorn State's Aziz Abdurazzakov and Yannick Hawkins 8-6 in the final.
Xavier finished second out of 15 teams in the men's standings, behind FAMU and ahead of third-place Hampton.
It was the highest HBCU finish ever for the Gold Rush.
HBCU National Championships stories/results:
Sept. 28
Sept. 29
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Terry Richardson reached the singles quarterfinals on Sept. 22 at the ITA/NAIA Region XIII
Championships at Lagoon Park Tennis Center in Montgomery, Ala. Three teammates —
Miroslav Vukicevic, Vusumzi Kempele and Cameron Knowles — won first-round matches the previous day.
ITA/NAIA Region XIII Championships stories/results:
Sept. 21
Sept. 22
In 2007:
Xavier was 12-10, won the GCAC championship for the second time in three years and was 25th
in the final NAIA poll.
Star-Studded:
All five returning lettermen — Vusumzi Kempele, Cameron Knowles, Mario Myles,
Terry Richardson and Miroslav Vukicevic — were All-Gulf Coast Athletic
Conference players this past season. Richardson was the GCAC Player of the Year.
2006-07 Honors:
• Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes — Thomas Fugate, Terry Richardson.
• All-Louisiana — Cameron Knowles (second team), Terry Richardson (second team).
• Louisiana Freshman of the Year — Cameron Knowles.
• Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars — Thomas Fugate (first team), Terry Richardson (second team).
• All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference — Thomas Fugate, Vusumzi Kempele, Cameron Knowles,
Mario Myles, Terry Richardson, Miroslav Vukicevic.
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year — Terry Richardson.
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year — Cameron Knowles.
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year — Alan Green.
History Lesson:
Xavier's proud tradition in men's tennis dates to the 1930s and players such as
Jimmie McDaniel, Dick Cohen, Louis Graves and Robert Ryland. The International Tennis
Hall of Fame & Museum featured these four and others at the 2007 U.S. Open with an exhibit
honoring black tennis pioneers. McDaniel was an American Tennis Association men's singles champion
and played Grand Slam winner Don Budge in the first scheduled interracial match on July 29, 1940,
in New York City. Budge won 6-2, 6-1 before 2,000 fans at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Center and
said after the match, "Jimmie is a very good player. I'd say he'd rank with the first 10 of our
white players.'' The artwork at the right first appeared in
the October 1940 edition of the the Xavier Herald, the campus newspaper.
Click on the image for a larger view.
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International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum story on its
exhibit honoring black tennis pioneers.
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Time Magazine story from Aug. 28, 1939, on Jim Crow tennis.
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Learn More:
For more information about Xavier men's tennis, contact:
• Alan Green, head coach — office (504) 520-5008 or amgreen@xula.edu
• Ed Cassiere, sports information director — office (504) 520-5707 or ecassier@xula.edu
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