Xavier to play host to GCAC cross country meet
Contact: Ed Cassiere, Xavier SID, 504-256-5380 cell
For immediate release . . . July 24, 2007
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University will be the host for the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, and the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets will compete in four other Louisiana meets -- two in New Orleans -- during the 2007 season. Coach Joseph Moses announced on Tuesday Xavier's schedule, which will begin Friday, Aug. 31 in the Tulane Green Wave Invitational at City Park in New Orleans. That meet will be the first in New Orleans for Xavier's women since 2004 and the first for the men since 2003. The Tulane meet will be the first of six consecutive weekly meets for Xavier. Then the Rush and Nuggets will take a week off from competition, then run in the GCAC Championships Oct. 20 at Highland Road Park in Baton Rouge. Xavier won the men's and women's team championships at the 2006 GCAC meet in Clinton, Miss. Xavier and its city and GCAC rival, Loyola, will co-host the Big Easy Invitational at Audubon Park on Sept. 15. The other Louisiana meets will be trips to McNeese State in Lake Charles on Sept. 7 and Southern University in Baton Rouge on Oct. 6. The Rush and Nuggets will compete Nov. 3 in the NAIA Region XIII Championships at Rome, Ga., where they'll attempt to qualify for the NAIA National Championships at Kenosha, Wis., on Nov. 17. Xavier will return six All-GCAC runners — Ebony Harding, Lonique Moore, Stacey Young and Ashley Broden on the women's team, Darren Wallace and Bryan Khan on the men's — from the 2006 season. Harding and Wallace were second-team All-Region XIII, and Harding was All-Louisiana and the women's Louisiana Newcomer of the Year. Moses was the men's and women's GCAC and Louisiana Coach of the Year in 2006.
Pictured:
Darren Wallace
All- GCAC in 2006
Link:
2007 Xavier men's cross country schedule:
http://www.xula.edu/athletics/mcc/schedule 2007 Xavier women's cross country schedule:
http://www.xula.edu/athletics/wcc/schedule 2007 GCAC Cross Country Championships home page:
http://www.xula.edu/athletics/gcaccc
Posted By: Jehan Bunch
Wednesday, July 25th 2007 at 1:47PM
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