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Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
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Lawing promoted to head coach after Hamilton leaves XU
December 11, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana
has promoted Hannah Lawing to women's volleyball head coach. Lawing succeeds
Christabell Hamilton, who resigned after leading the Gold Nuggets
to Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships
and berths in the NAIA National Championship in both her seasons.
Hamilton, whose teams were 45-15, left Xavier to
rejoin her husband, University of Houston men's basketball assistant coach Ronnie
Hamilton, who departed New Orleans in July after two seasons on the staff at Tulane. Hamilton is leaving coaching for the immediate future and
will give birth to her first child, a daughter, in February.
"We are sorry to see Christabell leave Xavier," said
XU athletics director Dennis Cousin, who
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Hannah Lawing
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Christabell Hamilton
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announced the moves
Tuesday. "Christabell
did a great job building a solid foundation for our volleyball program. She was
tremendously successful in a short amount of time.
"But at the same time, I am excited to promote Hannah.
I am confident that she will do an excellent job as our head volleyball coach and continue the success that
Christabell started."
Lawing joined the XU staff as an assistant coach in August and
helped the Gold Nuggets finish 22-8 overall and 10-0 in the GCAC. They won
four consecuitve matches to repeat as GCAC Tournament champion, and they lost
in four sets at 13th-ranked Georgetown (Ky.) in the opening round of the NAIA tourney.
The Nuggets also set a school record with 11 consecutive road victories.
It was Lawing's first season as a collegiate coach after serving as a varsity assistant at Heathwood Hall Episcopal High School in Columbia, S.C.,
in 2011 and co-head coach of the South Carolina Midlands 18s Elite club team this year.
"I am very excited," Lawing said. "I learned so much
from Christabell in just a few months. I feel that I have the right resources around me
to succeed the way Christabell did."
Lawing graduated from the University of South Carolina
in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She played four seasons of
volleyball for the Gamecocks and as a senior set a school record for digs per set with 4.89.
Lawing was an outside hitter and defensive specialist
with the Gamecocks. She was SEC Defensive Player of the Week twice as a senior
and once as a freshman. She excelled in the classroom as a two-time SEC Academic
Honor Roll member and made the dean's list.
Lawing is third all-time at South Carolina with 1,334 digs
and fifth with 3.35 digs per set. As a senior she posted the second-most digs in
program history and the most in the rally-scoring era with 523. That year she
also recorded a USC match-record 38 digs against Mississippi State. Lawing had
23 career double-doubles, including a career-high 28 kills and 14 digs in a
four-set victory against Harvard in 2009.
Lawing is a Winston-Salem, N.C., native and lived there
10 years before moving to the Atlanta area. She is a 2007 graduate of Lassiter
High School in Marietta, Ga.
"My coaching style will be very similar to Christabell's
style," Lawing said. "Her teams were fundamenally sound. She emphasized passing,
passing, passing — that's the way I learned volleyball."
The Nuggets had no seniors this past season. Returnees include
outside hitter Taylor Reuther, the GCAC Player of the Year and a Capital One Academic All-America® third-team
selection in 2012; outside hitter Chinedu Echebelem, the 2012 GCAC Tournament MVP; and
middle blocker Moira Kirk, the 2011 GCAC Freshman of the Year. All
three will be juniors, and all three are two-time All-GCAC selections.
Lawing can be reached in her office at (504) 520-7255
or by email at hlawing@xula.edu.
Xavier is one of 38 U.S. colleges listed as a "Best Buy
School" in the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges.
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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
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