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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
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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Darrilyn Broussard
Women's Basketball Associate Head Coach
Xavier University of Louisiana
Office: (504) 520-7513 Fax: (504) 520-7975 E-Mail: dbrouss1@xula.edu
Mail and Shipping: 1 Drexel Drive, Campus Box 92, New Orleans LA 70125
Best Time to Contact Browder: Weekday afternoons
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After two seasons as women's basketball head coach at
Xavier University of Louisiana, Bo Browder had 38 victories, a disappointing
15-16 record in his second season and an opening on his staff for an assistant coach.
Browder hired Darrilyn Broussard to fill the opening,
then the Gold Nuggets quickly regained their status as the top program in the Gulf
Coast Athletic Conference and one of the perennial powers in NAIA Division I.
The first event, Browder says, led to the other.
I give Coach Broussard as much credit as
anyone for our sustained success, Browder said. She provided a strong but
settling influence on our program. Coach Broussard is a terrific role-model
for the young women in our program to look up to.
The Gold Nuggets qualified for the NAIA Division
I National Championship seven times during Broussard's first 10 seasons on
the staff. They've gone 260-76 (.774) during her tenure and averaged 26
victories per season. They've won or shared five GCAC regular-season championships
and won the GCAC Tournament five times, including 2010 and 2011. Ten student-athletes have been Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars.
It hardly was a surprise when Xavier promoted
Broussard to associate head coach in September 2006.
"Coach Broussard and I are a good team, like Batman
and Robin," Browder said. "It's been easy to work with her because we believe
in the same things, such as how to treat people and how to live. That makes a difference.
Broussard is in her 12th year at Xavier and her
11th on the women's basketball staff. She coordinates the Nuggets' recruiting
and was responsible for the recruiting of guard Kojavona Hamilton, the 2004-05
GCAC Freshman of the Year.
Other duties for Broussard include scouting, game and
practice
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The Gold Nuggets are 260-76 (.774) and qualified for the NAIA Division I National Championship nine times during Darrilyn
Broussard's 10 seasons on the Xavier women's basketball staff.
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preparation, team management and coordinator of the Gold Nuggets'
summer basketball camp.
During the 2003 and 2004 seasons, Broussard also served
as an assistant coach on the women's volleyball team. She returned to the
volleyball staff in 2011 and helped the Gold Nuggets and first-year head coach
Christabell Hamilton set a slew of school records and win that program's first GCAC
regular-season championship.
Broussard is a New Orleans native who graduated from Mercy
Academy and was All-District and All-Metro in both basketball and volleyball. She was
a member of Domino's AAU Junior Olympic team that won a national AAU championship in the
early '80s. Broussard played guard for four seasons at Xavier — she had 11 assists
in a game her sophomore season — before graduating in 1986 with a degree in
communications. As an XU senior she was chosen the team's defensive player of the year and
made the dean's list. She earned her master of arts in education from the University of Phoenix in 2001.
Broussard coached six seasons at Xavier Preparatory High
School in New Orleans before joining Browder's staff. At "The Prep" she coached
the basketball team to its first state-playoff victory. She also served as head
volleyball and track coach and as athletics director.
She and husband, Kevin, have been married for 18 years
and have two children, Chad and Katherine.
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Ten Gold Nuggets have been Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars during Darrilyn Broussard's tenure at XU.
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