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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
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Nuggets sign two more, including another from Louisiana
Vashni Balleste
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Brion Flowers
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April 26, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Two more high school seniors —
Brion Flowers of Lafayette, La., and Vashni Balleste of Rock Tavern, N.Y. —
have signed women's tennis scholarships with Xavier University of Louisiana.
The Gold Nuggets have signed four for the 2012-13 academic year.
Flowers, who attends St. Thomas More High School,
is a TennisRecruiting.net four-star prospect ranked
fourth in Louisiana, 21st in the Gulf States region and 141st nationally. She has won
71 percent of nearly 400 USTA matches during the past five seasons.
As a sophomore at St. Thomas More in 2010, Flowers was the
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Division I-Class 5A state singles champion. She reached the singles semifinals
as a freshman in 2009 to help STM win the girls state team championship.
Balleste won 11 consecutive singles matches this past fall for
Washingtonville High School. She won the American Tennis Association
girls 18 doubles title with Floridian Nia Rose this past August.
Balleste's highest girls 18 singles ranking in the USTA Eastern Section is 124th.
Former pro and NCAA doubles champion Katrina Adams has
coached Balleste for the past year.
Both signees are honor roll students.
Flowers will be a pre-medical major at Xavier, and Balleste will major in mass communications.
Previously announced signees were Simone-Alyse Ewell of Detroit and
Alexandria Locure of New Orleans. Xavier will have three from Louisiana on the
2012-13 women's roster, including Jordyn Goody of Lake Charles, a freshman on
the team this season.
Xavier competes in the Gulf Coast Athletic
Conference. Coach Alan Green's Gold Nuggets qualified for the NAIA National Championship five
of the previous seven seasons and won first-round dual matches at nationals all five times.
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2012-13 Xavier women's tennis signees
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| Name |
Ht. |
Yr.* |
Hometown |
High School |
| Vashni Balleste |
5-4 |
Fr. |
Rock Tavern, N.Y. |
Washingtonville |
| Simone-Alyse Ewell |
5-5 |
Fr. |
Detroit, Mich. |
The Roeper School |
| Brion Flowers |
5-6 |
Fr. |
Lafayette, La. |
St. Thomas More |
| Alexandria Locure |
5-4 |
Fr. |
New Orleans, La. |
John Curtis Christian |
| * athletic classification at Xavier in fall of 2012 |
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