Xavier's Gauthier chosen to preseason All-GCAC team

Paige Gauthier

NEW ORLEANS — Paige Gauthier is Xavier University of Louisiana's lone representative on the 2013-14 preseason All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball team.
    
Gauthier, a 5-foot-6 senior guard from Lake Charles, La., and a graduate of St. Louis Catholic High School, averaged 7.5 points and 4.9 rebounds per game last season. She led the Gold Nuggets with 64 assists, shared the team lead in rebounding and ranked second with 26 3-pointers made.
    
Also named preseason All-GCAC were Edward Waters junior forward Amber Antoine, Philander Smith sophomore center Rubyunnia McHenry and junior forward Jerrica Scott, Tougaloo senior guard Portia Craft and senior forward Chasity Kearney, Fisk senior guard Janine Davis, Dillard sophomore forward Alena Evans, Talladega senior guard Arielle George, Voorhees senior foward Amber Johnson and SUNO senior center Sabrina Scott and guard/forward Marquetta Stoker.
    
Xavier, 24-6 last season and the three-time defending GCAC regular-season champion, will play its opener at 6 p.m. on Nov. 2 against Langston in Grand Prairie, Texas. The venue will be South Grand Prairie High School's Warrior Coliseum. The first home game will start at 4 p.m. on Nov. 9 against Spring Hill in the Convocation Center.

By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA