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In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
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Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
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Montrel, Benkirane sign scholarships with Gold Rush
Kyle Montrel
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Saad Benkirane
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September 14, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Kyle Montrel of Atlanta and
Saad Benkirane of Casablanca, Morocco, have signed men's tennis scholarships
with Xavier University of Louisiana. Montrel will be a freshman,
and Benkirane will be a senior on the Gold Rush roster. Both are enrolled
at XU for the current semester.
Montrel, a left-hander and a native New Orleanian, is a TennisRecruiting.net four-star prospect
who has won approximately 45 age-group singles championships and seven doubles championships
since age 8. He is a graduate of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy and
also attended Westlake High School, where he was a basketball point guard for both.
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Benkirane, a right-hander, is a transfer from
NCAA Division I St. Mary's College of Moraga, Calif., where he had a combined 31
victories during the past two seasons at No. 3 and 4 singles and No. 2 doubles.
He was a second-team NAIA All-American at Auburn Montgomery as a freshman
in 2010 and teamed with Michael Johnson for a victory at No. 1 doubles
in the national championship dual against Fresno Pacific, which AUM won 5-2.
Benkirane and Johnson were 4-0 at that tournament.
One of Benkirane's AUM teammates was Loic Didavi, now an XU senior and the Gold Rush's top player a year ago.
Benkirane was a boys 18 singles national champion in Morocco,
and his highest ITF junior worldwide ranking was 181st.
Montrel is a pre-pharmacy major at Xavier, and Benkirane
is majoring in business administration.
The XU men have won seven consecutive conference or
group championships and qualified for the past four NAIA National Championships.
The Gold Rush reached the quarterfinals at nationals in 2012
and became the first XU team in any sport to advance that far since 1973.
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC).
Xavier fields men's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis and track and field and women's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis, track and field and volleyball.
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
Xavier University of Louisiana
1 Drexel Drive
Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
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