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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
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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Hannah Lawing
Women's Volleyball Head Coach
Xavier University of Louisiana
Office: (504) 520-7255 Fax: (504) 520-7934 Email: hlawing@xula.edu
Location: Convocation Center Annex, room 304 (third floor)
Mail and Shipping: 1 Drexel Drive, Campus Box 92, New Orleans LA 70125
Best Time to Contact Lawing: Weekday afternoons
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Less than four months after she joined the coaching staff,
Hannah Lawing was promoted to women's volleyball head coach at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Her hiring was announced Dec. 11, 2012. Lawing succeeded Christabell Hamilton,
the Gold Nuggets' coach in 2011 and 2012.
"I am excited to promote Hannah," XU athletics director
Dennis Cousin said. "I am confident that she will do an excellent job as our head
volleyball coach and continue the success that Christabell started."
During Lawing's tenure as assistant coach, the Gold Nuggets
were 22-8 overall and 10-0 in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. They set a
school record with 11 consecutive road victories, and they repeated as champions
of the GCAC Tournament and regular season. They also appeared in the NAIA National
Championship for the second consecutive year and lost in four sets to 13th-ranked
Georgetown (Ky.) in the opening round.
"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."
Prior to coming to Xavier, Lawing was 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 in 2012.
"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."
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.
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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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