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In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
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XU's Taylor selected NAIA and GCAC Player of the Week
Zach Taylor
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May 5, 2011
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of
Louisiana's Zach Taylor was selected NAIA Men's Tennis Player of the Week for
April 25-May 1. He also won a similar honor from the Gulf Coast Athletic
Conference.
Taylor, a junior from Monroe, La., and a graduate of
St. Frederick High School and Ventura College, won 38 of 47 games to help
the Gold Rush win both its dual matches in a qualifying tournament
at Chattanooga, Tenn., for the NAIA National Championship.
Taylor and Hassan Abbas, the NAIA's 15th-ranked doubles
team, defeated Martin Methodist's Vinicius Santos —
the TranSouth Athletic Conference Player of the Year — and Juan Suarez 8-0
in the championship dual, and Taylor put the Gold Rush ahead to stay with his
6-1, 6-3 victory against Renato Castro.
"Our men had never been in the top 10 or beaten a top-10
team before Zach started playing for us this year," said eighth-year XU Coach
Alan Green. "He has been a difference-maker."
Taylor, 10-10 in singles and 15-7 in doubles this season,
is the first Xavier athlete to win an NAIA national player-of-the-week award since Brittany Powell (women's basketball)
did it for Jan. 18-24, 2010. This is the first season of the NAIA's weekly tennis awards.
The GCAC award is Taylor's third this season.
XU's men, 13-9 and ranked ninth, will compete in the NAIA National Championship
at Mobile, Ala., from May 17-21.
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