Overview of athletics at Xavier University of Louisiana
Updated October 18, 2007

Competitive Success in 2006-07
• Five of Xavier's six teams — men's cross country, women's cross country, men's basketball, men's tennis and women's tennis — won Gulf Coast Athletic Conference championships.
• Xavier produced two NAIA All-Americans — junior Dominique Bell in women's tennis and sophomore Shaun Dumas in men's basketball. Two more earned NAIA All-America honorable mention — junior Jarryn Cleaves in women's basketball and junior Mark Stewart in men's basketball.
• The men's basketball team set a school record with its third consecutive appearance in the NAIA Division I National Tournament. The Gold Rush upset third-ranked Georgetown (Ky.) 82-79 for its first opening-round victory since 1973.
• The women's basketball team tied a school record with its sixth consecutive appearance in the NAIA Division I National Tournament.
• The men's and women's tennis teams both were ranked in the final NAIA top 25. The women, who finished 22nd, earned their first top-10 ranking in March.

Academic Success in 2006-07
• Men's tennis players Thomas Fugate and Terry Richardson were selected Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Fugate graduated in May as a biology/pre-med major and was accepted into medical school at the University of Rochester.
• Six from Xavier — Thomas Fugate (men's tennis first team), Sheronda Nash (women's basketball first team), Terry Richardson (men's tennis second team), Kelechi Okoroha (men's basketball third team), Alexandra Broussard (women's tennis fourth team) and Vyaisha Moss (women's basketball fourth team) — were honored as Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars for their athletic and academic accomplishments.

Fall 2007 Highlights
• Freshman David Salmon ran four miles in 22 minutes, 39.36 seconds to set a Xavier men's cross country record at that distance.
• Junior Ebony Harding ran 5,000 meters in 20:18.81 to set a Xavier women's cross country record.
• Sophomore Matthew Walker won a pair of men's titles in the HBCU National Tennis Championships in Atlanta. Walker won the B-flight singles consolation championship and teamed with Mikhail Vaval-Desse to win the B-flight doubles title.
• Xavier won its first-ever women's team title in the HBCU National Championships. Sixteen women's teams competed. Junior Yuliem Dominguez and sophomore Colleen McArthur were finalists in A-flight doubles.

Did You Know?
• Xavier's 24 seasons of 20 or more victories are the most in the history of Louisiana men's college basketball.
• Entering the 2007-08 school year, Xavier's four head coaches — Dannton Jackson (men's basketball), Bo Browder (women's basketball), Joseph Moses (men's and women's cross country) and Alan Green (men's and women's tennis) — had won a combined 16 GCAC regular-season and tournament championships in their 18 seasons at the university.