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Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
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Mead, Pieri make Capital One Academic All-District team
Javon Mead
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Matt Pieri
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May 31, 2012
Academic All-District teams (PDF file)
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's
Javon Mead and Matt Pieri have
been chosen to the Capital One Academic All-District 4 college division
men's track and field/cross country team. The College Sports Information
Directors of America selected the five-member team.
Xavier has produced six Academic All-District
athletes, all in the past four seasons.
Mead, a sophomore from Baton Rouge, La., and a graduate
of Baton Rouge Magnet High School, is an accounting major at Xavier with a 3.66
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grade-point average. Mead is a two-time All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
cross country runner who finished third in the conference meet in 2010 and
fifth in 2011. He has four top-10 finishes and two top-5s in two years.
Pieri, a junior from New Orleans and a graduate of
Brother Martin High School, is a pharmacy major with a 3.79 GPA. Pieri is a
three-time All-GCAC runner and was the league's 2010 individual champion. He was
a 2011 Daktronics Scholar-Athlete and was inducted into the
Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. Pieri has won a GCAC career-record 10 Runner of the Week
awards, four this past season. He has 13 top-10 finishes and nine top-5s in three seasons.
District 4 in the college division comprises athletes
in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. Xavier and Morehouse (District 5
of NCAA Division II) were the only HBCUs to be represented
on the any of the Academic All-District men's track/cross country teams this year.
Nominees must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA
on a 4.0 scale. They also must have completed at least one full calendar year at
their current institution and reached sophomore athletic eligibility. First-team
Academic All-District members advance to the Academic All-America® ballot.
Xavier's previous Academic All-District honorees were
Kelechi Okoroha in men's basketball, Joe Drexler-Dreis in men's track/cross country
and tennis player Terry Richardson (at-large) in 2008-09 and Brianna Dekine
in women's track/cross country in 2010-11.
Xavier is a six-time defending GCAC team champion in men's and women's
cross country. Both squads qualified for the NAIA National Championships three
of the past four seasons, including 2011.
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