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In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
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Wave her colors bear them onward
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Juco standout Huggins joins Gold Rush for spring season
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Corey Huggins
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January 24, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Corey Huggins, a standout the past
two seasons for Seminole State College of Seminole, Okla., has signed a men's
tennis scholarship with Xavier University of Louisiana.
Huggins, a 6-foot-2, 182-pound right-hander from
Brooklyn, N.Y., is an XU junior majoring in marketing and eligible for the 2012 spring season, which the
Gold Rush will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Tulane.
Huggins was a semifinalist at No. 5 singles at the 2011
NJCAA Division I National Tournament and, for the second consecutive year, helped the Trojans finish fifth in
the team standings. This past season he recorded a
doubles victory against Baylor, ranked 13th in NCAA Division I, and a singles
victory against Cameron, ranked 19th in NCAA Division II. As a freshman
Huggins was a regional runner-up in doubles during the fall and finished
fifth in the NJCAA division of the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships.
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Huggins was 19-6 in singles as a Seminole sophomore.
He was 14-5 in singles and 18-6 in doubles as a freshman. In the final Intercollegiate
Tennis Association NJCAA rankings, Huggins was 84th in singles and 18th in doubles as a sophomore and 47th in
singles and 19th in doubles as a freshman.
"Corey is a strong doubles player and has a really
big forehand," Seminole coach Brian Nelson said. "He's solid at the net with his
volleying. He's a mature tennis player. He doesn't get rattled and doesn't get
nervous, probably because of all the juniors experience he has."
Huggins is a native of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
and moved to the United States from that Caribbean country in 2004. He graduated from Brooklyn's
Bedford Stuyvesant Preparatory High School but did not compete in sports there.
TennisRecruiting.net rated him as a four-star recruit.
Huggins is one of four newcomers — the others are
Loic Didavi, Nikita Soifer and Viktor Svoboda — on the Gold Rush roster.
NOTES: XU coach Alan Green said fifth-year student Ashley McGill
has rejoined the women's roster for 2012. McGill, who
played tennis the past two seasons and basketball the past four seasons for the Gold Nuggets,
is from Memphis, Tenn., and a graduate of Northside High School. The Gold Nuggets'
first match will start at 9 a.m. Sunday at Tulane.
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