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• Xavier's Alan Green Sweeps All-Louisiana Tennis Coach of the Year Awards

  JC 1:33 pm on May 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Alan Green, a sixth-year head coach at Xavier University Louisiana swept the All-Louisiana Tennis Coach of the Year Awards. Green coached the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets to top 20 rankings in the NAIA, and Gulf Coast Athletic Conference championships. The Rush and the Nuggets both posted opening round wins in the NAIA National Tennis Championships.

  XULA also sent several men’s and women’s players to the All-Louisiana tennis team, as voted upon by a panel of state-based sports writers.

  2009 All-Louisiana Women’s Tennis Team
  FIRST TEAM
  Megan Falcon, LSU, senior, Alameda, Calif.
  Iva Velkovska, Southeastern Louisiana, senior, Skopje, Macedonia
  Claire Clark, Louisiana-Monroe, sophomore, Bossier City, La.
  Anastesia Opata, Xavier, junior, Lawrenceville, Ga.
  Mariam Kurdaze, Tulane, freshman, Tsilisi, Republic of Georgia
  Marion Lehmann, Louisiana-Monroe, senior, Besancon, France

  SECOND TEAM
  Angelina Callis, Xavier, junior, Los Angeles, Calif.
  Bianca Schulz, Northwestern State, sophomore, Wiesenstiasse, Germany
  Mykala Hedberg, LSU, senior, Oxnard, Calif.
  Nicole Kantor, LSU, junior, St. Louis, Mo.
  Audrey Chelini, Southeastern Louisiana, freshman, France
  Angela Dagond, Louisiana-Lafayette, senior, Bucaramanga, Colombia

  Player of the Year: Megan Falcon, LSU
  Newcomer of the Year: Kozue Matsumoto, New Orleans
  Freshman of the Year: Mariam Kurdaze, Tulane
  Coach of the Year: Alan Green, Xavier

  Honorable Mention: Staten Spencer, LSU; Kozue Matsumoto,
  New Orleans; Kathrin Lange, Northwestern State
  2009 All-Louisiana Men’s Tennis Team
  FIRST TEAM
  Michael Venus, LSU, senior, Orlando, Fla.
  Terry Richardson, Xavier, senior, Ellenwood, Ga.
  Piotr Banas, Louisiana-Lafayette, junior, Warsaw, Poland
  Javier Pulgar, Louisiana-Lafayette, freshman, Madrid, Spain
  Calvin Kemp, New Orleans, freshman, Atlanta, Ga.
  Guillaume Capovin, Southeastern Louisiana, senior, France

  SECOND TEAM
  Neil Skupski, LSU, freshman, Liverpool, England
  Arlen Domoney, Louisiana-Lafayette, senior, Capetown, South Africa
  Ben Smith, New Orleans, sophomore, Ipswich, England
  Benjamin Enke, Southeastern Louisiana, junior, Germany
  Sebastian Carlsson, LSU, sophomore, Uppsala, Sweden
  Damien Cordoba, Southeastern Louisiana, freshman, France

  Player of the Year: Michael Venus, LSU
  Newcomer of the Year: Guillaume Capovin, Southeastern Louisiana
  Freshman of the Year: Javier Pulgar, Louisiana-Lafayette
  Coach of the Year: Alan Green, Xavier

  Honorable Mention: Jan Bezdecka, Southeastern Louisiana;

  Julien Roussel, Southeastern Louisiana; Mikhail Vaval, Xavier

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• Xavier(La.) Women's Tennis Nationally Ranked in Singles and Doubles

  JC 11:45 am on April 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  The Xavier University (La.) Gold Nuggets tennis team is one of nine schools nationally in the NAIA to boast nationally-ranked singles player and doubles teams.

  Anastesia Opata and Angelina Callis are both ranked in the top 50 singles players and are the tenth-ranked doubles team in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Teammates Yuliem Dominguez and Colleen McArthur are ranked 25th.

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• Does Your School Twitter?

  JC 7:48 pm on February 27, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  It does add a nice touch for scores and updates. And, like usual, Xavier (La.) is ahead of many black colleges on the sports information tip.

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• Fisk University Athletics Returns to the NAIA

  JC 10:10 am on October 15, 2008 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Just eight months ago, Fisk University discontinued its membership in the NCAA under the pressure of mounting deficits and an inability to generate revenues from athletic events and fundraising.

  On Monday, the university announced that it will join the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, (NAIA) beginning with participation in men’s and women’s basketball this fall. Fisk was a member of the conference until 1975.

  This repositioning of the university’s athletics program is a conflicted measure, but a hopeful one. Just months ago, the school was looking to transition all athletic competition to the club level, which officials said would save the university hundreds of thousands of dollars and encourage wider student participation. And while the association with the NAIA will save the university money in respect to its previous affiliation with the NCAA, doesn’t Fisk now have to begin a concentrated effort to promote sports again?

  An effort that was previously too difficult to undertake in Division III competition?

  The truth is, Fisk was not offering athletic scholarships prior to their withdrawal from the NCAA to save money. Did they suddenly find money to support recruiting and retaining scholarship athletes in another conference? The truth is that students and community members were not overly engaged in Fisk’s primary money-making sport, men’s basketball. Will membership in the NAIA reignite excitement in the program, and generate more ticket sales?

  Maybe Fisk’s mentality is to start spending money again in the NAIA to make a little money, and that mentality could pay off. Xavier University (La.) is a prime example of how switching conferences can pay off in the long term investment that is intercollegiate athletics. Hopefully, the tradition of Fisk athletics is enough to earn the school a running start in its new league affiliation.

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• Xavier University (La.) is Black College Basketball's Powerhouse

  JC 9:08 pm on October 9, 2008 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  It’s a shame that Xavier University (La.) does not compete in NCAA athletics, because we certainly would hear a lot more about them on a regular basis. They are among the dominant athletic programs in the Gold Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, and they will continue their dominance this basketball season. The women’s and men’s teams are ranked number one and two in the GCAC, respectively.

  The Gold Nuggets captured the 2000-08 GCAC championship on a last-second shot, but that was just the icing on a terrific season. It was their seventh consecutive 20-win season, seventh consecutive appearance in the NAIA Division I National Tournament, and the Nuggets finished in the top-25 of the NAIA national poll.

  The Rush finished their 2008 campaign with an appearance in the GCAC championship game, and their fifth consecutive 20-win season. They were ranked as high as eigth in the NAIA national poll late in the season, and had three players named to the all-GCAC team.

  If anybody knows a school that is this dominant in both men’s and women’s black college basketball, I’d love to put them against XULA. Not to many programs in any division or any association, do it better than the gold standard at Xavier.

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• Xavier University (La.) Captures HBCU National Tennis Championships

  JC 11:58 am on September 29, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Xavier University (La.) captured three tennis titles over the weekend at the National HBCU Tennis Championships in Atlanta.

  Senior Yuliem Dominquez won the women’s B-flight singles championship with a three-hour, 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 6-3 win over Florida A&M’s Kathline Durden. Dominquez also helped take the B-flight doubles championship with Angelina Callis.

  Brothers Terry and Sean Richardson of Xavier defeated Paul Paige and David Jackson for the B-flight men’s doubles championship title.

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• Xavier University (La.) Sweeps Preseason GCAC Cross-Country Rankings

  JC 10:52 pm on August 19, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Xavier University of Louisiana is the two-time Gold Coast Athletic Conference champion in men’s and women’s cross country. Both teams will begin the 2008 season as the preseason favorites in the conference, in rankings released by the NAIA yesterday.

  Conference champions automatically qualify for the NAIA National Championships, and with seven all-GCAC runners returning between the two programs, it’s a good bet the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets will be the gold standard in the conference this season.

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