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ALMA MATER
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
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
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Nuggets, Rush run into record books at GCAC meet
October 20, 2012
Results:
Men
Women
Facebook photos:
Men
Women
CLINTON, Miss. — Xavier University of Louisiana's Zahri Jackson and
Matt Pieri won individual titles Saturday, and the Gold Nuggets and Gold Rush
extended their dominance of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships.
Jackson, a sophomore, repeated as women's individual
champion in a school-record 18 minutes, 54.69 seconds for 5,000 meters. Sophomore
teammate Catherine Fakler was next in 18:55.20 — nearly 40 seconds faster
than her previous best — and she and Jackson recorded the second- and
third-fastest 5K times at this meet since 1998.
Pieri, a senior, ran 8,000 meters in 26:54.21 —
the fastest at this meet since 2003 — to win
the men's individual title for the second time in three years.
He joined Spring Hill's Patrick Aucoin (2007-08) and Mobile's Keith Melanson (1993-94)
as men's multiple champions. Pieri's victory gave the Gold Rush a
fourth consecutive men's individual title. Kwame Jackson, Zahri's brother
and the 2011 champion, was third in 28:20.91. Freshman David Holobowicz ran
second in a career-best 27:38.62.
Both the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets won team
championships for the seventh consecutive year. Both recorded perfect scores
with 15 points. Xavier had the first six women's finishers. The Nuggets won
by 63 points, the Rush by 39.
Both XU teams earned automatic bids to the NAIA
National Championships on Nov. 17 at Vancouver, Wash. The Rush and Nuggets
qualified for the second consecutive year and the fourth time in five seasons.
The Nuggets tied a GCAC women's record for consecutive
team championships. The Rush are the first GCAC team to win seven consecutive
men's titles since Mobile won 10 in a row from 1990-99.
Jackson, who set XU's previous 5K mark of 19:15.18 in her
second collegiate meet, outsprinted Fakler in the final 200 yards to
become the first GCAC female repeat champion since XU's Katrina Davis in 2002-03
and the league's fifth multiple women's champion.
"My performances have fluctuated this season," said Jackson,
beaten twice by Fakler in 6,000-meter races. "My lower right calf and Achilles
have been bothering me all season. I rested a lot this week and felt good today.
I wanted to go under 19 minutes. The reason I did was because Catherine was there to
push me."
Said Fakler, "It was a great race. It was nice to
run with Zahri the whole race. Zahri has speed and a really good kick, so if
you're going to beat her, you have to do it early."
XU's Joseph Moses was voted GCAC Coach of the Year
for the seventh consecutive year in the men's division and the fourth
consecutive year and the sixth time in seven years in the women's division.
Xavier's perfect team scores were the first at the
GCAC meet since Mobile's men and women did it in 1996.
Pieri became the fifth Gold Rush runner to be named
All-GCAC four times. He never finished lower than fourth in a conference meet.
"This was a complete 180 from last season," Pieri said.
"Last year I was dealing with a couple of nagging injuries and finished third.
This season I just tried to perfect my stride to completely eliminate those
small injuries. It took a couple of months to do it, but it was worth it.
"This season has just been fun. I couldn't ask for a better
group of guys to run with. They sent me out in style, and I owe all my
accomplishments to them and Coach Moses."
The top 10 male and female finishers were designated All-GCAC.
Six from each XU team earned that honor. Zahri Jackson, Fakler, Briana Simms (third place,
19:38.78), Hali Yarmush (fourth, 20:01.20), Hannah Finnegan (fifth, 20:02.61) and
Donyé Coleman (sixth, 20:42.52) were the Nuggets' All-GCAC runners. The Gold Rush all-conference
runners were Pieri, Holobowicz, Kwame Jackson, Aaron Yarmush (fourth in a personal-best 28:34.74),
Javon Mead (fifth, 29:05.38) and Emmanuel Detiege (eighth, 30:14.98). Coleman and Mead were
all-conference for the third consecutive year.
The times of Simms, Hali Yarmush and Finnegan rank among
the 16 fastest in the program's history. Coleman's time was her fastest at Xavier,
and Paige Rochelle (13th, 23:02.77) ran a personal best.
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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
(504) 520-7934 fax
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